Just a little bit of fun

rmg1

GunJack wrote: »

by stopping anything unneeded from running at startup, not installing any bloat, and trimming the services that aren't needed Try looking at:-

http://www.blackviper.com/

for some tips - scroll down to Popular Content and pick your OS. I don't follow his research exactly, but it's very useful if you are just starting out on the tweaking path He's done XP, Vista and 7, so just look up the OS you're interested in.

...must admit, I've not started on W7 yet, but when I do, I'll let you know....

Cheers GJ - I'll have a look when I get (currently at work with no chance of speeding up this snail, they're running McRappee :eek:)

marvell-kid

AMD Phenom II x4 840
CPU Clock: 3200MHz
CPU Cache: 2048 KB
Memory: 4096 MB
Mem Clock: 668.9 MHz
Timings: 9-9-9-24

13.806 Seconds

Really chuffed with that. My first build last year under £400

aliEnRIK

marvell-kid wrote: »

AMD Phenom II x4 840
CPU Clock: 3200MHz
CPU Cache: 2048 KB
Memory: 4096 MB
Mem Clock: 668.9 MHz
Timings: 9-9-9-24

13.806 Seconds

Really chuffed with that. My first build last year under £400

Sounds very similar to mine. I didnt bother building mine because I got it built for about 280 quid! (That said, my graphics card bumped it up to about 380)

aliEnRIK

chunter wrote: »

429.75 seconds (800 Mhz Coppermine)

Is that the record we have on here so far?

:P

GunJack

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Is that the record we have on here so far?

:P

think so, apart from spud's thin client that wouldn't run it at all - it makes mine look quick


btw, I have admin rights on my works lappy, i5 M540 @ 2.5 GHz, 4GB DDR3 RAM running CSC's XP Pro build - 19.5 sec...

...so why's it so slow in every other department ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

marvell-kid

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Sounds very similar to mine. I didnt bother building mine because I got it built for about 280 quid! (That said, my graphics card bumped it up to about 380)

Got a SSD drive in mine aswell. Dual Monitors and blu ray player. Could of gotten cheaper if I didnt go all flashy on it

spud17

rmg1 wrote: »

Anyone know the minimum number of processes for Windows 7 (Home I think)?

Not claiming to have the least, but, 41 at idle here on Win7 Home Premium 64bit, but I do have a couple of customisations running.

re the slowest score, you could always use a clogged pc with reduced ram.

But, the score I posted for the thin client (386sec) was for a brand new HP XPe image, incidentally with 25 processes running, mostly Citrix stuff. The ram should be 256MB, but I've upped it to 512MB.

MothballsWallet

Finally, I've been able to run this for myself!

System specs (I've added the motherboard make and model because CPUz doesn't seem to auto detect it):


System score:


So, is it good, bad, or indifferent for a system that's now over 7 years old?

GunJack

MothballsWallet wrote: »

So, is it good, bad, or indifferent for a system that's now over 7 years old?

see posts 3 + 4 ish

MothballsWallet

GunJack: I've only got 1GB of RAM in it, and I didn't have Windows running with the minimum number of background programs, which will have affected the scores, but it's more than fast enough for me (I'm thinking of adding an extra 1GB of RAM to it as well)