[O/C]BenchTec Toolbox: Wprime, PiFast and SuperPi Tweaker

[mdcomp]

BenchTec Toolbox: Wprime, PiFast and SuperPi Tweaker
by Mutant_Tractor

Quite recently, ARandomOWl (Adrian) and myself (Mutant_Tractor – Myles) decided to make a WPrime tuner for the BenchTec UK HWBot team.

What started off as a fairly simple program soon snowballed into a full-on collaboration to construct an AIO system tweaker. This system tweaker took us over a month of solid work, adding features for every conceivable tweak on each OS (either XP,Vista or 7).

This led to a plethora of updates and beta testing stages before we released it to the public.

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[mdcomp]

Going to have to try this out myself later...see if it improves my scores at all. I'll update you guys when I have a chance to do testing. If anyone else beats me to the punch, let us know if this makes a difference. It's a cool idea!

Matt

 

[EarthDog]

Ive been tasked to work on this but have so far just failed miserably and time in RL isnt on my sdie for what I need to do...

This tool I have seen all over the place work, and seemingly well, so I know its something Im doing wrong or within my system. After thinking about it more today, its likely b/c my OS, while mainly trimmed for space, has several other things tweaked in it as well as far as services and such go so maybe thats why Im not seeing any results.

I would bet on bone stock OS's this works like a charm.

 

[mdcomp]

Ive been tasked to work on this but have so far just failed miserably and time in RL isnt on my sdie for what I need to do...

This tool I have seen all over the place work, and seemingly well, so I know its something Im doing wrong or within my system. After thinking about it more today, its likely b/c my OS, while mainly trimmed for space, has several other things tweaked in it as well as far as services and such go so maybe thats why Im not seeing any results.

I would bet on bone stock OS's this works like a charm.

It just so happens I have a bone stock OS installed at home. Didn't find a slipstream bench copy that I liked yet. In a few hours I will attempt to report back on this. Not sure if I'll have time tonight, lot's of work to do (aka Monday Night Football)

Matt

 

[xoke]

I'll be installing a fresh XPSP2 load tonight on one of my bench drives (unless the game is really exciting), I'll give this a run. I'm pretty noobish to major OS tweaks, if this makes it easy for me...anyone can do it.

 

[mdcomp]

Didn't get to it. Hopefully this weekend. Would love to publish results on the frontpage if the improvements are significant over a bunch of systems. This will be a great tool for n00b benchers like me who have yet to discover all of the intricacies of these programs.

Matt

 

[JimmyG]

Please define your acronyms

This article would be much more useful to the entire OC population if colloquial terms and acronyms were defined.

 

[David]

JimmyG: Thanks for the feedback. We'll try to make sure these things are better clarified in subsequent articles.

 

[Brolloks]

This article would be much more useful to the entire OC population if colloquial terms and acronyms were defined.

Good suggestion, thanks. We probably need a writeup on all the OC terms and references we use every day.

 

[ChanceCoats123]

Ive been tasked to work on this but have so far just failed miserably and time in RL isnt on my sdie for what I need to do...

This tool I have seen all over the place work, and seemingly well, so I know its something Im doing wrong or within my system. After thinking about it more today, its likely b/c my OS, while mainly trimmed for space, has several other things tweaked in it as well as far as services and such go so maybe thats why Im not seeing any results.

I would bet on bone stock OS's this works like a charm.

This would be my main point. The Xp 32 SP3 that I bench on is literally about as lite as it gets for benching. This, as well as a few other programs won't even run on this OS because the services have been disabled or because useless (to benching) stuff has been removed. I'll give it a try on a fresh install though.