Am i oc'ing the wrong way??

[Tazon]

i have the rig in the sig.

I have taken the FSB from 133 (stock) to 184. The ram from 166 to 184. Clock speed from 2000 (stock) to 2300.

I made a little test: I timed the time it takes for winxp to start and then start a heavy game (warcraft3) and load a savegame.
Then i timed the same procedure with all hardware at stock speeds. it takes EXACTLY THE SAME AMMOUNT OF TIME, 80 seconds.

I have oc'ed the FSB, the clock speed and the ram, and gained 0 seconds. I know these things are not the only factors that affect performance, but still i should have dropped a few secs right? am i doing something wrong?

The only thing that changes are the scores on the benchemarks. But this is not what i want! i want a faster computer not a better rated one! HELP!

emilio

[Tebore]

Uh if you want your computer to load faster get some 15,000RPM SCSI Drives and run RAID 0. CPU and RAM speed isn't gonna affect load times much. It's all in the harddrive, the harddrive is the biggest bottleneck (Not including net connection).
Try defragging.

[Tomas]

I made a little test: I timed the time it takes for winxp to start and then start a heavy game (warcraft3) and load a savegame.
Sounds like a hard drive speed limit to me... Overclocking will only affect memory transfer and cpu speed.

[shiyan]

I guess if you want the fastest windows booting time, you need an Intel system and the fastest PATA hard disk:

Intel systems boot a lot faster than AMD, and the time it takes the PATA hard disk to load windows is faster than the time it takes the SCSI or SATA controller to pass their device check.

But that's just dumb advice actually. Windows loading time is not really how fast your system is.

For fastest loading times in apps etc, you'll still need the 15k SCSI drive, to be precise, the Fujitsu MAS series.

But more practical advice would be for you to defragment, or get a faster hard drive, like the Fujitsu/IBM 7K250.

[Tazon]

ok, i guess it is the HDD. any way to speed up what i got? i can't really buy a new one.

emilio

[altec]

Your drive will only spin at the rate that the motor will run. You could Defragment your harddrive, try to clean out some of your temp folders, and clean out your regisrty (be careful), and you may get a little quicker load times.

[Deathknight]

If you want faster boot times that are a ton of tweaks to help with that. First off disable any services you are not going to be needing. Also limit the # of apps you have in your startup. All of these things add time on to your bootup.

A faster HD or raid 0 would help as well but tweaking your settings is a great place to start.

This site has some fantastic info on the various services that run on your machine. You should be able to find some you do not need:

http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP/servicecfg.htm


I have also found some tweaks for speeding up boot times at this site:
http://www.tweak3d.net/

[Tazon]

allright then i will go throught my services list, there are lots of them and i don't know what they do.

I will also look into upgrading my HDD motor so it will spin faster. I got a cofee grinder motor around here someplace.


emilio

P.S.: just kidding, i'm not THAT dumb

[nealric]

Intel systems boot a lot faster than AMD

where are you getting that from- why would that be the case?