I think it would be good to help those with laggy comps to speed up their systems abit,

what i usualy do is msconfg > Start up and boot uncheck micro services, disable all uneeded start ups.

i used to disable superfetch and indexing (services.msc >> Windows Search - only if u dont use it [search bars])
but not on this system at the moment.

WBU?

I leave my computer as it is and deal with it. As long as I can play my games, at the end of the day the speed (in which my computer loads) doesn't phase me. Oh, I also havent turned my computer off for 2 months apart from needed restarts or power failures.

i just do the odd

disk cleanup
defragmentation etc..
delete uneccesary files that i no longer need.

do a reformat every 6-12months. after having backuped everything.

Look in the General Discussions Virt (Sticky: Recommended Programs) ther are some useful programs there ie: CC cleaner among others

lol those programs are duds, anything they can do you can do better, with more HDD space, and quicker boot times.

Suprised that no one is rlly affected by HD speeds o_O

a fresh reinstall is the best way to get a better, faster, cleaner system. unfortunately not practical for everyone

There is a way through windows. I forgot the process but it's just a matter of editing files. I did it a while back but i forgot the process.

Also, Asus ROG "Republic of Gamers" Motherboards have a feature to increase the HD speed. Having a separate socket in the motherboard itself for this Speeding HD feature.

Charlie is Menudelay what your talking about? its probably the most popular way to fasten the windows menu options,
regedit, search menushowdelay and assign the number 1 to all the ones you find ;D

Ive heard of the ROG mobos, awesom function unfortunately im stuck with this mobo which only supports 3Gb/s =(

all in all, im pretty satisfied with my hd speed, fresh install ftw.

windows score is 5.9 : / cause of my HD
everything else is above 7.5

Wait until SSD become cheaper

Chewie wrote:

Wait until SSD become cheaper

Nah intel will be releasing that super fast chip thingie with the speed of light transfers (capable of transfering 1000 hours of music / or / 4000 tweets in a second)
which is approximately 25,000 MB/s

yeh in how many years?

and how much compared to ssds?

10+ years, 10000x the cost.

precisely

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Charlie is Menudelay what your talking about? its probably the most popular way to fasten the windows menu options,
regedit, search menushowdelay and assign the number 1 to all the ones you find ;D

I'm familiar with all that. But that's not it. There is a way to tweak your HDD performance through windows by editing a file in conjunction to the HDD function. -Rhymes lol

I did it a while back. A bit technical but i had it working. Might be worth looking into. But seriously can't remember how I did it. lol I grabbed it off a PC magazine that I no longer have. Look into it mate if your really keen.

Virt is that the normal HDD but with the super large/fast cache??

lol syler it will be released in about 5 years, and it wont be as / or / will be / not more / of / an / equivalent SSD because the hardware it uses is SSD type hardware, pretty sure it also uses light to send information, as opposed to electricity.

Yea 5.9 for hdd is about the the fastest hdd score you will get unless you use it in raid 0, if i am correct you will have a 32mb cache.

the best way to speed up your hdd is delete all the shit that you dont use or put it onto another HDD, msconfig and stop all the start up programs that you dont use, you can try and make you HDD disk spin faster but, for what its worth just buy a SSD or disk defrags alot, raid 0 is about the best option if you ask me just need to make sure that you are running the same hdd make and size.

i get 6.0 in RAID0 lol...........wait. not. i still get 5.9 Lol

I run 2 x 150g raptors in raid 0 for my OS and game installs, all my other apps are installed on another 150g raptor and any other files on 1TB drive also have XP on a 320g drive. It seams to work ok.

....you have too many hard drives ......i only got 2x1TB (raid 0), 2x320GB(raid 0) and a 750GB.....wait thats the same as me..... nevermind