OS Tweak by Dig. Storm?

What are opinions on the OS tweak option? I'm in Stage 3 of order...probably to late to change it (I didn't opt for the tweak).

I was worried they might disable something I need (how would they know?), but now I'm kinda wishing I'd selected it.

I would not use it, you got a link to that benchmark Alex I like to see it, cause if it did make a difference the system was not setup right, with 6GB of ram, proper gpu, and a quad core cpu, os tweak should make zero difference.

Originally posted by Alex Sure, I knew you were going to come by and challenge me on that.

inb4 dst discredits hothardware.com

Edited by RiceEatin2000GT - 29 Sep 2011 at 4:43pm

Well that is not this platform and that is not a ht cpu and the review is 3 years old.

also that review said:

To be frank, we'd be happier if we'd been able to duplicate (or come within a reasonable margin of duplicating) the company's results based on the changes we've made to the OS environment.

All of the performance differences we mapped occurred in the Music, Communications, Productivity, and HDD suites. When we broke down the individual tests within those seven categories, we noted a distinct trend—all of the gains, when they occurred, occurred in benchmarks that involved searching, reading, or writing to the hard drive. Actual computation tests that were processor, GPU, or memory-bound did not show the same variations.

Also those are synthetic benchmarks, I didn't see any benches in that review that show difference in fps in games.

so lets recap the problems with that bench, it has only 4GB of ram, the cpu is old and does not support ht, and there were no improvements shown in games, not to mention that is from 2009.

now what does a 4 thread cpu, with 4GB of ram has to do with a 8 thread cpu, with 8GB of ram I have no clue.

show me a bench that has 6 or 8GB of ram, on a cpu that supports ht, with a current setup that has seen any difference in real world use and games then we can talk.

that review has only 2 benches on os tweak, one of which is synthetic and has nothing to do with real world use and the other showed the tweak actually slowing things down, as you can see below the clean install with out the tweak is doing nero faster then the oem tweaked os:



do you know how many-times and different ways I have tweaked windows? it makes no difference in real life use.

Edited by DST4ME - 29 Sep 2011 at 4:55pm

I'm not going to get in a debate over this.

I note (on that review):

"A distinct trend—all of the gains, when they occurred, occurred in benchmarks that involved searching, reading, or writing to the hard drive. Actual computation tests that were processor, GPU, or memory-bound did not show the same variations."

My build is SSD only -- so probably not necessary. I did request (before reading this) that they add this option, and D.S. quickly responded.

Hope that doesn't mean they need to test my system all over again. :)

I would argue that there is such a thing as a cleaner OS. I've used CCleaner and Glary Utilities (both free) for my current XP, and they do a ton of s**t. I also disabled unnecessary start-up items, etc.

I'm guessing D.S. does similar. ?

Again, not looking for performance increase, per se.

As for "I will put my non tweaked os against any tweaked os any day" -- You know the OS much better than me, I'm sure. Including how to tweak it.

As for "Down the line there is a service you need and you don't know what it is, then you will have world of problems" -- Now I'm worried.

"You got a beast of a system, don't you want to get all the bells and whistles from your os?"

Ugh. What will I be missing?


"Make sure you use the startup window of ccleaner to edit your startup apps."

Off topic for a second, I do use the link from the Start window. It makes a difference? What is your recc on Glary?

"Make sure you use the startup window of ccleaner to edit your startup apps."

Now I see what you mean. I was using Revo Uninstaller for this.

Thx for word on Glary and SSD.

To be clear -- and again sorry for off topic, I'll stop -- CCleaner good for SSD?

@alex

@FR3SHM3AT

Your reply is to what post?

Frustrating that the "reply" does not include the text related. As Steam forums do, most forums.

DST4ME:

If I may ask -- and no disrespect; I've been following your posts for some time before purchase -- who are you?

Not likely a "traditional" employee, as you do recommend non-Digital Storm products (HAF-X). A compensated blogger, my guess.

Damn, it happened again. Sometimes the text replied to is included, sometimes not.

"my av and firewall, anti spyware, and ccleaner I have everything glary does covered, but my apps do it better."

Can you recommend (list) these?

Or consider Kaspersky...best AV i've ever had

Exactly too each his own. When DST makes a statement, remember its his opinion. That's why hes listed a customer, like everyone else but Alex.