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Originally Posted by SlowToady

Overclock your CPU, Memory and Videocard? Yea. Take everything that website says with a grain of salt.

In addition, a lot of performance tweaks out there for most Windows versions are VERY wrong. It doesn't take much googling to find out. Primarily, running without a pagefile does NOT boost performance, and is *not* recommended (for example).

Always do a good bit of research before implementing "tweaks," a lot of them are just snake oil.

Right, the link that I posted above addresses many of those sorts of things. I read several pages that said, go into Vista and turn of x, turn off y, and turn off z. Then reading the link not only told me not to do those things, but told me why. Some of that stuff however is so far off that you don't need an article to know that they are wrong.

Overclocking is great if you want your stuff to reboot randomly.

Not that it can't be done. I've had a system with an o/c cpu that ran fine for years, and I had a video card that could handle some o/c without rebooting or crashing the system.