Anyone with insanely long PC modification/tweak lists? Here's mine.

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The specs :

1.) Ryzen 9 9900x 12 cores, 24 threads cpu

2.) Kryonaut Extreme cpu thermal paste

3.) Cooler Master Stealth MA824 cooler

4.) 32gb Team Group T-Create 6200mhz ram

5.) 32 39 39 83 ram timings

6.) 1tb Team Group MP44L primary ssd

7.) 2tb Samsung 980 Pro secondary ssd

8.) Gigabyte X870 Gaming Wifi 6 motherboard

9.) Asus TUF Gaming OC RTX 5070 Ti 16gb gpu

10.) Corsair 12vhpwr to 2x8 600w rated gpu power cable

11.) ASRock Phantom Gaming 27 inch 1440p 180hz monitor

12.) Thermaltake GF1 850 watt psu

13.) Fractal Pop Air case

Miscellaneous details -

1.) Windows 11 Home Debloated w/ Chris Titus tool

2.) Ultimate Performance power plan enabled

3.) GPU set to "Prefer Maximum Performance" in the NVCP

4.) Core Isolation disabled

5.) Windows Defender disabled

6.) Control Flow Guard disabled

7.) Resizable BAR for driver and bios enabled

8.) Data Execution Prevention disabled

9.) Virtualization Based Security disabled

10.) Fullscreen Optimizations disabled

11.) Microsoft Edge and WebView service completely removed with Edge Remover Tool

12.) Frequency Scaling off, Core Parking off using the Park Control app

13.) GPU overclocked (+420mhz for core, +3000mhz for memory and +16% power limit on benchmarks, +350mhz for core, +3000mhz for memory and +16% power limit on games)

14.) Nvidia Control Panel frame cap set to 90 because I don't care about anything above that

15.) 10 bit color and reference mode enabled

16.) Overdrive enabled on monitor

17.) Freesync enabled on monitor, GSync compatible setting enabled in NVCP, VSync setting enabled in NVCP

18.) Stress tested for 100+ hours with Geekbench, Geekbench Ai, Prime 95, CineBench R23 + R24, MemTest86, FurMark, 3DMark and OCCT

19.) Current scores in Geekbench 6 are higher than a stock i9 14900k, Core Ultra 7 265k, Ryzen 9 9950x3d, Apple M3 Max and Apple M4 Pro

20.) Highest Geekbench 6 scores for single and multi core were 3599 and 23181

21.) Highest score for 3DMark CPU Profile Test was 15,713

22.) Highest score for CineBench R24 and R23 is 2023 points and 35452 points

23.) Windows Game Bar completely removed with powershell script

24.) Power Throttling in windows disabled with the Group Policy Editor

25.) Additional optimizations/telemetry removal done with the Chris Titus Utility

26.) Processor Idle Demote Threshold set to 100%

27.) Processor Idle Promote Threshold set to 100%

28.) Upgraded front cpu cooler fan from Mobius 120 1950rpm to Noctua NF-A12x25 2000rpm

29.) Minimum Processor State set to 100%

30.) Maximum Processor State set to 100%

31.) Windows Store Apps all removed

32.) File Explorer Auto-Discovery disabled (speeds up file explorer)

33.) Nvidia drivers debloated with NVCleanInstall

34.) Auto Color Management disabled in Windows Display Settings

Bios settings changed -

1.) PBO Boost Clock Override set to "+200mhz"

2.) PBO Limit set to "Motherboard"

3.) PBO Scalar set to "10x"

4.) PBO Curve Optimizer set to -35 on all cores

5.) Core Tuning Config set to "Legacy" to minimize latency

6.) High Bandwidth Support enabled

7.) EXPO Profile 1 enabled

8.) Secure Virtual Machine disabled

9.) Infinity Fabric clock speed set to "2133mhz"

10.) Above 4G Decoding enabled

11.) Trusted Security Device Support disabled

12.) Integrated Graphics disabled

13.) Spread Spectrum and FCH Control disabled

14.) Gigabyte In-Bios Utilities Downloader disabled

15.) Platform Thermal Throttle Limit left on "95 celsius"

16.) Trusted Platform Module disabled

17.) Power Supply Idle Control set to "Typical Current Idle"

18.) TSME disabled

19.) IOMMU disabled

20.) Global C States and DF C States disabled

21.) PSS Support disabled

22.) CPU Prefetcher settings all enabled

23.) DDR Power Down disabled

24.) Memory Context Restore disabled

25.) Security Device Support disabled

26.) Core Watchdog Timer disabled

27.) SoC Uncore OC Mode enabled

28.) SVM Lock disabled

29.) SMEE disabled

30.) REP-MOV/STOS Streaming enabled

31.) Fast Short REP MOVSB enabled

32.) Enhanced REP MOVSB/STOSB enabled

33.) DDR Data Scrambling disabled

34.) Pluton Security Processor disabled

35.) SMM Isolation Support disabled

36.) Latency Under Load disabled

37.) Corrector Branch Predictor enabled

38.) CPU Speculative mode on "More"

39.) Streaming Stores Control enabled

40.) AVX512 enabled

41.) OPCache Control enabled

42.) DDR ECC disabled

43.) DRTM Support disabled

44.) AIM-T disabled

45.) Advanced Error Reporting disabled

46.) PCIE Power Management disabled

47.) High PPT Mode enabled

48.) SecureBIO support disabled

49.) Pluton UART and FIPS disabled

50.) DDR MBIST disabled

51.) dGPU only mode enabled

52.) TREF set to 65535

53.) NX Mode disabled

54.) Memory Interleaving enabled

55.) CPU VCore loadline calibration on "High"

56.) CPU VCore SOC loadline calibration on "High"

57.) AMD Variable Protection disabled

58.) Processor Aggregator Device enabled

59.) App Compatibility Database enabled

60.) PSP RPMC Switch disabled

61.) ACPI CST C1 Declaration disabled

62.) CPU VDDIO MEM voltage set to 1.33v

63.) VSOC voltage set to 1.26v

64.) TRFC set to 360

65.) Gear Down Mode enabled

66.) Ram in 1:1 UCLK=MCLK mode

67.) tRRDS: 4

68.) tRRDL: 8

69.) tFAW: 20

70.) tWR: 48

71.) tRTP: 12

72.) tWTRS: 4

73.) tWTRL: 12

Windows Services Disabled -

1.) BitLocker

2.) COM+ (all)

3.) Connected Devices Platform

4.) Data Sharing

5.) Data Usage

6.) Hyper-V (all)

7.) NetLogon

8.) Parental Controls

9.) Print Spooler

10.) Print Device Configuration

11.) Printer Extensions & Notifications

12.) Remote Access (all)

13.) Remote Desktop (all)

14.) Retail Demo

15.) Sensor (all)

16.) Server

17.) Smart Card (all)

18.) Volume Shadow Copy

19.) Windows Biometric

20.) Windows Camera Frame Server (all)

21.) Windows Diagnostic (all)

22.) Windows Font Cache

23.) Windows Image Acquisition

24.) Windows Phone

25.) Windows Search

26.) Work Folders

27.) Xbox (all)

Posted Jan 14, 2026, 12:08 AM UTC

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