Hardware Tweaks/Upgrade

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akastarks

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I just got my new Radeon X850 XT PE AGP card today and now I'm wondering what else I can do or get that will boost system performance? Here are my specs:

MSI KM4M-V Socket A
AMD Athlon XP 3000+
1GB Kingston 2700 DDR RAM
ATI Radeon X850 XT PE AGP

I here some people say the OCZ ram is really good and performs great. Also I noticed the 200MHz FSB in my system bios. Should I crank it up from 166 to 200?

Not to mention I have a crapload of programs running in the background. Which ones can I remove?

Name PID Memory Usage
3DMark05.exe 2696 11 MB
alg.exe 2132 260 KB
AOLacsd.exe 1912 596 KB
AOLDial.exe 3352 892 KB
AOLHostManager.exe 3916 2 MB
AOLServiceHost.exe 244 8 MB
AOLServiceHost.exe 2568 7 MB
AOLSP Scheduler.exe 2536 260 KB
ati2evxx.exe 1040 768 KB
ati2evxx.exe 2552 1004 KB
CCAPP.EXE 3368 9 MB
CCEVTMGR.EXE 456 3 MB
ccProxy.exe 1528 13 MB
CCSETMGR.EXE 1568 3 MB
CDAC11BA.EXE 1504 308 KB
CLI.exe 3796 5 MB
CLI.exe 3472 5 MB
CLI.exe 2920 5 MB
csrss.exe 756 2 MB
daemon.exe 3188 8 MB
explorer.exe 2760 15 MB
IEXPLORE.EXE 3716 3 MB
iPodService.exe 1560 952 KB
ISSVC.exe 1580 2 MB
iTunesHelper.exe 3728 2 MB
lsass.exe 848 1 MB
LVComS.exe 3236 404 KB
msmsgs.exe 3040 5 MB
navapsvc.exe 1628 2 MB
NSMdtr.exe 4028 5 MB
nwtray.exe 3380 324 KB
PortAOL.exe 3496 1 MB
realsched.exe 3504 136 KB
services.exe 836 2 MB
smss.exe 672 108 KB
SNDSrvc.exe 1592 2 MB
SPBBCSvc.exe 1856 3 MB
spoolsv.exe 916 2 MB
StarWindService.exe 1812 472 KB
StyleXPService.exe 1244 732 KB
svchost.exe 1052 2 MB
svchost.exe 1120 2 MB
svchost.exe 1212 13 MB
svchost.exe 1356 1 MB
svchost.exe 1468 2 MB
svchost.exe 1828 2 MB
svchost.exe 2932 360 KB
symlcsvc.exe 1864 152 KB
System 4 32 KB
System Idle Process 0 16 KB
UAService7.exe 228 384 KB
VTTimer.exe 3136 436 KB
wdfmgr.exe 1996 236 KB
winlogon.exe 792 5 MB
wmiprvse.exe 992 6 MB
xtagent.exe 1004 2 MB
 
You should be able to run the processor and memory at 400mhz. Check Tweakhound.com. It will tell you which services you can disable and other tweaks. Ive gotten a big performance boost by making a seperate partition and Windows installation just for gaming. That way I could turn off most of the extra crap.
 
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