ROG Benchmarking Tweaks & Tips

[Myk SilentShadow]

Welcome to the:



OverClocking Guides - Please do read through these if you haven't yet and are new to OverClocking, or are in need of a refresher course

Maximus VI Series UEFI Guide For OverClocking

Maximus V Series OverClocking

Maximus IV Series Overclocking

Overclocking Using Offset Mode

Overclocking for P67 & Z68 Boards

RIVE Easy OC Guide

RIVE Overclocking

Crosshair V Formula Overclocking

Memory Setup Guides
Crosshair V Formula Easy Memory Setup Guide

Beginners Guide to setting up RAM

All the above guides are now provided in PDF Format found here

The Tips & Tweaks for helping to get better scores
Using "Diagnostic Mode"
Setting Priority Level for RealBench
Killing Explorer.Exe
WhitePaw's Video Guides
Running With a Pagefile
Windoze 8
Batch File/Script to kill/enable services
Scripts to change Screen Resolution
Disabling EFS

[chevy350]

Looking forward to it Going to be geared toward general stuff or more towards specific components?

[Myk SilentShadow]

Looking forward to it Going to be geared toward general stuff or more towards specific components?

Probably general i'd say as there are already guides up for OCing and i'm usre there are Memory Tweaking guides too, i'm not well versed in either of these, so if there are none, someone may make a guide and place it here if they wish

[meankeys]

Awesome
Looking forward to it. May be move Whitepaws video over here as well (great job WP thank you) Moved my MVE to the bench and upgraded my cooling I am ready. Thanks everyone for all your help and tweaks.

[Myk SilentShadow]

"Using Diagnostic Mode"

If you're unsure just what Diagnostic Mode is, or why we even use it when Benching with Realbench, or any other Benching tool.

Basically "Diagnostic Mode" is useful if you're having Driver problems, as Diagnostic Mode boots with minimal services and drivers loaded...and since the OS is operating in a "lite" version of what you currently have set up & installed....it's not fat and bloated, which is why Diagnostic Mode is very valuable, unless you already have a "Stripped Down" OS that you bench with

OK, if you've never ever changed the Bootup Method that Windows Uses...here is how

1. Click your start bar(Windows 7) in the search box type "msconfig"(MS Config is where all important services, drivers and other junk is stored for boot time etc)


2. On the main window, just click the circle next to Diagnostic Mode


Please do NOT click Apply, this will change the bootup mode to "Selective Startup" which can load some programs at bootup and hinder your score, maybe a little, maybe a lot...depends on what you have installed. Just click OK and select Yes to reboot your system.

[Myk SilentShadow]

Setting Priority level for RealBench
The reason we change the priorities for programs, is to force them to become basically "on top" system resources are altered for your programs based on the priority level assigned to it, if we set the Priority on Realbench to "realtime" it gets the highest attention from the OS and all available resources are focused on RealBench.

1. Start RealBench, but do not use it right now.
2. Hit Control+Alt+Delete
3. Select "Task Manager"
4. On the "Processes Tab" scroll down until you see RealBench.exe
5. Right Click on it and select "Select Priority"
6. Click on "Realtime"
7. Click OK.

[Myk SilentShadow]

Killing Explorer.exe
Let's be honest here, Windows is a heavy pig of an Operating System, no matter how great they claim to have made it, the fact remains that the OS is huge and heavy and consumes a crap-load of resources. The "Desktop" Explorer.exe can at times it self consume a lot of Memory and if you've got a small amount of RAM, chances are it's filling pretty quickly with Explorer and other Windows junk and services....so, we kill off Explorer.exe to free up some valuable resources.

1. Ctrl+Alt+Delete if you're still not in task Manager
2. Select Task Manager
3. Processes tab, scroll down til you hit explorer.exe
4. Right click on it and select "End Process" - or just click end process on the bottom right of the window


5. Click End Process, in the next popup


6. Do not freak out if you've never killed Explorer.exe before, here is how you bring it back after you've run however many runs of RealBench you wish

7. Get a screenshot of your RealBench score first!!!
8. Control+Alt+Delete
9. Click on File
10. Click New Task(Run)


11. Type in Explorer.exe if it's not already in the next Popup and click OK


12. Be amazed as your desktop magically comes back to life

[Myk SilentShadow]

WhitePaw's Video Tutorials

Here is a quick video tutorial
Its the basic Win7 tweaks, for scoring higher in real bench..

A little something for the newcomers..
1.. Set power plan to high performace
2. Change the screen resolution ex. 800X600
3. Set system startup boot to> dagnostic mode/click OK/reboot



Now i reboot and load a OC profile in bios
And returning to Win7..
1. Open ROG Realbench
2. Open task manager and set priority to realrime
3. Launch




Good luck..

[Nodens]

Running with a pagefile.
Contrary to popular belief running with no pagefile is not faster. It can be the same as running with a pagefile or SLOWER. This happens due to how memory allocation is done. Programs can "reserve" memory in case they need it so that it can be immediately available. That memory stays unused until the application that requested it commits it.
When you run with no pagefile this "unused but reserved" memory ends up taking a portion of your physical RAM. If a pagefile is enabled, this "reserved" memory ends up being allocated on the pagefile, leaving physical RAM free for things that can actually use it or system cache.

In Realbench you will notice this. Run with a pagefile and without and you will see the difference. The pagefile size required depends on the amount of physical RAM and what is actually running and will run on the system. There are methods for calculating the optimal size of a pagefile (by checking the pack commit values on your maximum workload scenarios) but in the case of RB you can experiment with sizes

1.Hit Windows Key+Break
2.Click "Advanced System Settings"
3.Click "Advanced" tab
4.Under "Performance" click "Settings"
5.Click "Advanced" tab"
6.Under "Virtual memory" click "Change"



Link me up Myk! (I'll be posting a couple of more for starters).

[Myk SilentShadow]

Directions on how to make the changes Nodens, I can't edit your post and put pics in