[Spliffie]

Sup Guys,

I know its a fairly noob question but i just wanted to ask if any ones got any recommendations for increasing speed in windows 7, preferably boot times and application load times.

Last night i decided to RAID-0 with two 80 SATA II 7200 RPM WD's, i have seen slight increase in speed, but im sure there is more i can do...

my PC has 16GB of DDR3 memory, can i disable all caching on my HDD's?

I have also set within "MSCONFIG" under Boot> Advanced options > Number of processors> "6" (i have 6 cores)

what else can be done to increase speed and performance of Win 7 x64

Regards,
Spliffie

[redduc900]

Why would you want to disable HDD write-caching? And manually changing the "Number of processors" value in the System Config. utility (adding the NUMPROC=[value] entry in your BCD) for faster boot times is a myth.

[EarthDog]

Well, nothing you have done really helped...LOL.

That said, for boot:

1. Go in to the bios and disable anything you dont need.
1a. Using R0 likely increased your boot times a bit due to the RAID loading.
2. Go in to MSCONFIG and uncheck all you dont want to start up.
3. Buy SSD's.

For application startup:

1. Buy an SSD.

[Spliffie]

Ok cool thanx... And in windows write caching is disabled by default on the raid drive... Should I enable?

[byte_code]

i see type os you use it hase main role for speed
windows 7 ultimate is need more cpu speed
and more and more ram and vga card best find in srore

so so so

Best for any one realy want best best speed

using os windows 7 home premium 64 bit
othewise you waste time

[gnusounduave]

Originally Posted by EarthDog

Well, nothing you have done really helped...LOL.

That said, for boot:

1. Go in to the bios and disable anything you dont need.
1a. Using R0 likely increased your boot times a bit due to the RAID loading.
2. Go in to MSCONFIG and uncheck all you dont want to start up.
3. Buy SSD's.

For application startup:

1. Buy an SSD.

Solid info right there