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The Many OS software tweaks of SuperPi Exposed
Submitted by Johnny Bravo on Sat, 04/05/2008 - 01:26. Guides
Over the years there has always been various tweaks touted and spread over overclocking forums on how to improve benchmark results. One area this has been quite prevalent in is SuperPi. We see one guy try something different, get a faster time and suddenly everyone's trying it for themselves. Too often we simply try the newest thing with no real understanding of what it is doing and how it is supposed to help our times. Then when we don't see any real gains we are left wondering what all the fuss is about or why it works for some people and not us.

What I propose here is a thread in which we can all input our findings to test these various tweaks. Each week we shall choose one tweak - specify a platform and run various SuperPi sizes (1M, 2M...) and hopefully through numbers we will establish what gains if any that tweak brings.

To begin with I ask for you to suggest any additional known software tweaks that are commonly used. I have made a list of the ones I know of so far but am welcome to suggestions as we go on.

Known tweaks

XP or 2003 Server
Copy Wazza
LargeSystemCache
/MAXMEM or /BURNMEMORY
GUI Theme
Processor Affinity and Priority
Background Services
RAMDISK Applications

Source

Interesting read....