I was surfing the Internet the other day and ran across a glowing review of a new product offering over at Tweakboy.net. The review was so good, I started to doubt the reviewer was legit, but the premise of the guide was too good to ignore.
This product, created by Tweak Boy, someone we’ve all heard from once or twice in the PC repair forums, claimed it could make any PC run faster and smoother within a few hours, just by doing some simple maintenance on the PC. It was a bold claim and one that PC owners everywhere will perk up at hearing.
But, as a long time PC owner, I had to put it to the test. I’ve seen a lot of so called “tricks” that do little more than turn off all your features and call it “faster”. So, before I would call it a hoax or a full blown solution, I figured I’d give this new guide a test run and report back with my thoughts.
Time For A Test Run
I tested Tweak Boy’s PC Optimizer over the course of a week on an old computer I have in my basement - one that’s rarely used anymore and hasn’t had any maintenance done in three or four years at best. I did some basic benchmarks to confirm that the computer was in fact awful and ran slower than when I bought it.
The PC which was built way back in 2004 and it was top of the line at the time. It should run anything that came out within about two years of them with ease, but I can’t even get Farcry to play smoothly, so you can imagine it’s not exactly cruising along.
I did the maintenance outlined by Tweakboy every day for the entire week, and made sure to use my PC as much as possible, just doing some basic web browsing, Facebooking and YouTube - the usual nonsense I do when I’m half asleep.
So What Was The Results?
Well by day 8, I did a new set of benchmarks. I was blown away. Everything - and I mean everything - had improved at least 100%. Some things were performing 3 or 4 times better than they had before. Not only did Farcry run now, it ran a rock-solid 60 frames per second.
It boot up in about 15 seconds, rather than the two minutes it used to take. It opened web pages instantly, it shut down in seconds. This was the computer I had bought in 2004. I was blown away.
The lesson? Don’t judge anything based on it seeming too good to be true. Tweak Boy’s PC Optimizer is the real deal. I’ll be using his system on all my PCs from now on.
Check it out here
