Another project was to determine which OS to use. Initially I wanted to run Vista since I need to get some experience on the OS and I though there might be some advantages to running in a native 64-bit OS. Bottom-line XP is faster for 3DMark06 right now.
I charted the results of my tests along side posted results found on the web. Using Vista I was losing performance. I was running Home Premier and could not get the number of processes running below 45. I dug up every trick I could find including manually shutting down every extra process possible before launching 3DMark06.
I also used tools like HWMonitor, CPUid, and Prime95 to help tune the system.
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