how to speed up x300

[Marin85]

I believe those who have such skill don´t even bother with windows

[mattbiernat]

another way i sped up my x300, at least the boot time.
- msconfig - boot - advenced - enable 2 processors and enable maximum ram.

[Marin85]

I´ll try this out, though it´s actually supposed to be like this regardless of the fact it was probably greyed out. Maybe it will work out for me too

[Marin85]

Apart from long lasting Welcome screen , I don´t see any difference in boot time...

[Marin85]

Here quite something worth a look in case you are not already aware of it.

Cheers

Marin

[mattbiernat]

not all the tweaks apply to SSD. me thinks that increasing cache would have negative effect, remember we were trying to disable it in the policies. also, regarding the prefetch and superfetch, I have disabled both services, do you think i still need to disable it in the registry? and i got rid of pagefile altogether, I am not using that many memory intensive applications on x300. what is your boot time by the way?

[Marin85]

As of the writing cache I really don´t know. However the other cache hacks like setting the cpu L2 cache had positive impact on my setup. Also, I´m pretty sure you have to disable superfetch and prefetch via the registry as well. Disabling only the corresponding services doesn´t shut them both down completely. My boot times with Hitachi 7K200 were about 50 secs from pressing the power button to usable desktop, I believe it could have been reduced further few seconds if I had known some of the "tweak" I´m now aware of. As of now my primary HD is a Seagate Momentus 7200.3 which boots every OS I tried on it slower than the 7K200 does. Despite the much better throughput of the 7200.3 I believe this difference come from the fact that 7200.3 has worse access times. AFAIK the 7K200 is the second best in access times among all available 7200rpm laptop-capable HDs.

[Marin85]

not all the tweaks apply to SSD. me thinks that increasing cache would have negative effect, remember we were trying to disable it in the policies. also, regarding the prefetch and superfetch, I have disabled both services, do you think i still need to disable it in the registry? and i got rid of pagefile altogether, I am not using that many memory intensive applications on x300. what is your boot time by the way?

I believe the guy that has written this article on the OCZ forums is not that much interested in the boot performance but much more in the overall OS performance after the boot, probably mostly due to some specific problems Vista tends to make on the OCZ SSDs.

[mattbiernat]

windows 7 gave me 35 second boot without tweaking. the system performace seems to be a little bit slower thou. maybe bcause it still does not have as good drivers as vista, for whatever reason it does not feel as snappy as tweaked Vista. oh and 7 did let me disable write cache.