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System Performace Tweaking?
A not-so Anonymous Coward asks: "After being on a rather slow PC for some time now, I have finally made the jump to a 1GHz+ PC. Being fairly new at having a rather fast PC, I am not very sure where to go for system performance tweaking. A few friends pointed me to Monroe World and TweakXP. Both are pretty good sites, however I find that my system still doesn't perform as well as it should when running a benchmarking test like 3dMark 2003. My score is just under 2000. I know people who have slower systems than mine and get a score around 5000. So I am turning to the Slashdot community to ask: Where do you go to find out the latest and greatest hardware and system tweaks? Do you have your own tweaks, and if you do would you mind sharing your secret tweaking tips?"
I buy a faster computer when I need more speed. Tweaking won't be nearly as effective as doubling your processor speed.
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
If you are concerned about 3DMark...buy a graphics card so expensive that you shed tears when you sign the check (funded by the sale of your firstborn).
Find non-graphics intensive benchmarks, and watch your friends decline to run them like the cowards they are....
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*Start of advice*
I am using another Operating System than Windows.
*End of advice*
Note to self: get smarter troll to guard door.
A trick that really improved the performance of my PC was replacing it with a Sun Blade 2000 with dual processors, 8 GB of memory, and a 24.1-inch LCD display.
The unexpected bonus was the tricked out "Sun" headlight in front and color shifting paint.
Linux : Mac
Do you have your own tweaks, and if you do would you mind sharing your secret tweaking tips?
[sarcasm mode on]
Well, it is kind of personal, but I like to take the nipple between my forefinger and thumb, squeeze mildly hard, and rotate just slightly. The tweek isn't too painful, and the nipple hardens up just nicely.
[sarcasm mode off]
OH COME ON! You can't tell me that was the first thing to enter your mind when you saw the word "tweak." If it wasn't, your mind is not far enough in the gutter.
I haven't lost my mind!
It is backed up on disk...somewhere...
Try them, you'll be amazed.
Well, what were you expecting...
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What's all the fuss about benchmarks? It's just like dick length: don't fret over it. If she's all cuddly and smiling in the end, it's big enough.
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