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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
That's the thing, that is all marketing/selling BS. It's largely a scam. There is no such thing updating the bios unless they actually flash it which practically no store will ever do because a bad flash can actually ruin a motherboard.
There is also no such thing as optimizing a new system. What Futureshop/Best Buy do is that they have their techs install windows and then press OK on Windows Update when it asks to download the newest updates. Then they say it's "pre-optimized" and sell it for $200 mark-up. $40 isn't bad and I guess for a Mem Ex product, that's okay.
If they aren't charging you extra for it, then go ahead, but if it's extra or built into an inflated price, this is all BS.
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Couldn't agree more.
Just make sure you get the latest driver from the manufacturer site (don't use the CD that comes with the part) and come here for advice on performance tweaks. Some easy ones off the top of my head are - force the pagefile size, make the change in your boot.ini to access the >2gb of ram, turn off automatic updates.