in a recent video we did here at tech yes city
we uploaded a custom install of windows 10
which essentially just cuts out all the
bloatware
and all the telemetry and we wanted now
in today's video
to show you guys the performance results
with our version that we made
and i'll put the link to that video up
here if you guys want to check out what we did
as well as how you can make your own
custom install of windows 10
but we are also going to compare it to a
very popular version that's making the
rounds
at least in my comment section and from
when people message me directly
and that is the ghost spectre version of
windows 10.
more specifically their super light
version and then lastly we are going to
be comparing
these two versions to the default
windows 10
install with all its extra stuff which
let's face it a lot of us do not need
when we've done the initial tests we've
seen that ram utilization and cpu
overhead
do decrease a little bit at least on the
default desktop monitoring
where you can see your ram utilization
with the default windows 10
using up the most and then followed by
our version using significantly less
and then the ghost specter using even
less than that though it's time to move
on now to the biggest question
and that is do these custom versions of
windows
affect your gaming fps and is there more
to gain
if you use one of these installs let's
find out
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so the first thing to go over is the
rigs used in today's comparisons where
we've got one on the lower end
and then one on the extreme high end to
check for the differences where our low
end rig
consists of an x58 system with a six
core 12 threaded zeon the x5675
we've also got eight gigabytes of ram in
a non-desirable configuration that is
we're only using dual channel with eight
gigabytes of ddr3
instead of triple channel which is what
this platform can enable and we're also
not overclocking the cpu in this
instance and that's because we want to
get a representation for most people
who are putting together low end rigs to
see what difference they can extract
on an extreme budget and especially if
you can't afford an overclockable
motherboard
and extra things like a high-end cooler
though on the high-end side of things if
you've got
a lot of money especially in the world
of crypto
then you can afford an rtx 3090 for
example we'll take a look at that too
with the ryzen 9 5950x16 core 32
threaded cpu 32
gigabytes of cl 16 3600 memory which
is pretty much the best of the best when
it comes to gaming but let's move over
to those results where first up is gta 5
and here on the low end system
when we tested this game on the same
settings and this is the
normal settings preset which is pretty
much the lowest settings in this game at
1080p
we can see here at the same spot so
we're testing apples to apples to apples
we see here that both the ghost spectre
and the tyc version
got really good 1 and 0.1 percent lows
and pretty much double that of the
default version
and we also got an extra 2 average fps
now on the high end system
we didn't really notice much of a
difference here
except again with the 0.1 percent lows
were a bit better
on our tyc and go spectre additions the
movement of for
honor here on the low end side we did
see a little bit of an uplift on average
fps
and then on the high end rig we actually
didn't see much of a difference at all
except when it came to those 0.1 percent
lows
just like gta 5. though moving over now
to f1
2020 and here's where we saw at least on
the low end rig
in terms of average fps we got the
biggest uplift in terms of percentage
terms in this whole comparison
going from 77 to 81 and 82 respectively
so there was a bit more average fps to
be gained here
as well as the uh 0.1 and 1 lows going
up pretty much in tandem
to that of the average fps then going
over to the high-end system on the 5950x
we didn't really see much of an
uplift here at all across either the one
percent point lows or the average fps
keep in mind this is a dx12 game
and the game is very well optimized for
pc moving on now to the last title and
this is cs go
and here we go on the potato system a
slight increase of average fps and this
went from 241 to 245
on both the go spectre and tyc installs
however the biggest difference here
is that in csgo's inbuilt benchmark it
doesn't just show uh the average fps it
also shows the minimum
and we're not talking about minimum fps
we're talking about actual minimum
and that is the worst frame transition
possible in this benchmark
and here we went from 13 to 19 to 20.
so you can kind of think of this as like
if we're going to compare it to the one
cent point on send lows in this
particular benchmark you can think of it
like the .001 percent low
essentially the worst transition
possible though moving on to the higher
end systems
we didn't see much of the difference at
all going from 26 to 27 to 29
on that minimum number and then the
average fps
showed a very minimal difference however
one thing i will point out this is
before we get on to the synthetic
benchmarks
where we've done an additional three
tests there if you are on an amd system
you want to keep the spectrum meltdown
options enabled
as opposed to the intel systems where i
actually disabled them personally
however
in the custom version that we uploaded a
few days ago here at techy city
we've left that on by default so if
you're on an older intel system
i do recommend this is what i do
personally i do disable spectrum
meltdown but if i'm on an amd system
i do leave these enabled button which is
the default setting
because if you disable the spectre
update i'll pull up the results for you
you then go from over 800 fps and pretty
much
lose 100 fps that was for synthetics
we've got here first up
fire strike where we've got the physics
scores on the potatoes
scoring a difference between the default
and the custom versions here
which was a slight uptick to the custom
versions especially when it came to the
cpu
scores and then when it came to the gpu
scores they also lifted up
just ever so slightly it was nothing to
go outside and go
celebrate and go party over but it was a
difference
nonetheless and then moving on to the
high-end system
we also saw pretty much a similar result
where the custom versions
were beating out that of the default
version though
moving on now to geekbench 5 and here's
where i saw the most
interesting result that sort of
correlates with cinebench and that is
that the ghost specter version
consistently when i was running these
tests was scoring ever so slightly
higher on the single threaded score
then it was slightly losing out on the
multi-core score
and this was showing on both the low end
and the high-end systems
and then when we move over to cinebench
here we've got a similar trend
developing
where the single core was best on the
ghost spectre on both the low end
and the high-end systems and then on the
multi-core it was falling ever so
slightly behind
though with all those benchmarks out of
the way we're now at a conclusion for
you guys
and what i saw there was something that
when it comes to these custom windows
installs what they're going to do
is they're going to give you a smoother
gaming experience that's the trend that
i saw across the board
whether it's our version or it's the
ghost specter version i think both these
versions do a better job
at giving you better one percent
especially 1.1 percent lows
than the default version which has a lot
of extra stuff baked in
and one thing that i have noticed as
well is that when i'm first installing
this once we take
we personally take out all the crap and
so does the spectre version
when you install these versions you've
just got a better experience on a low
end system in terms of things operating
a little bit faster especially
if you're not for instance using an ssd
then it's crucial that you get one of
these lighter installs
installed asap so when it comes to
getting better fbs
the two most important contributing
factors are going to still be
your gpu and your cpu but that being
said
when it comes to competitive multiplayer
titles you definitely want to have
a good one percent and 0.1 low
especially if you're in clutch plays for
instance if i play dota 2
and i'm in a big team fight i do not
want any stuttering while that's
happening
because it could cost me the match and
subsequently cost me the game
so if you're playing competitive
multiplayer titles then you definitely
want to get on a custom version of
windows
that's just my two cents in that regard
so in a nutshell both these two versions
of windows they will make a difference
but it may be a different way than you
might have expected
but the final question you guys probably
have and one that i get asked quite a
lot is
is the ghost specter version safe if you
install this
are you going to get hacked and we've
used it here for a couple of weeks
and from what i've seen it looks very
well polished and the person who made it
has spent a lot of time designing this
not just
after you install windows but even
before where they've installed things
like a custom ui
on the installation screen so i don't
think
it would be invasive but that being said
i
cannot put my name on at 100 i'm not a
network analysis
expert if you wanted to get a definitive
answer you'd have to
find someone who is in that role and
they are a third party and they can
vouch for it
so i'm pretty much not your guy for that
but when it comes to our version
i can tell you we've also spent a couple
of weeks making this it's been in the
works
and i've been around for 10 years plus
on youtube and i haven't been involved
in any scandals so basically we're just
happy to help you guys and i'm pretty
sure
ghost specter is going to be one of
those guys who's going to be happy to
help
out the community when it comes to
getting a better game experience and
also a better overall
user experience too so hopefully that
answers that question
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installs
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kind of stuff so thanks for the
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