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Originally Posted by Koa
7% value of a car is a swaybar? I didn't realize they cost $1500-2000 
I get what you're saying.. but perhaps the analogy could use some refinement. It's not a terrible one but extracting more from one's car isn't exactly cheap either when it comes to base performance. There are a lot of tweaks one can do with their PC for free that simply aren't possible on cars, as well, which goes complicates your analogy being relevant and accurate of what's at hand. Perceived benefit, I can see your analogy shining. People love to throw on bushings and whatnot and exclaim how drastically different their car handles, only weeks later that feeling is gone (perceived benefit = first time driving it after they threw on the mod happens all the time).
Realistically though the two are not apples to oranges so it's not easy to quantify through dollar amounts/upgrade alone. |
Yeah I'm not sure what part of my ass I pulled 7% out of either, you know what I mean though
I totally know what you mean about people getting wicked placebo effect when it comes to minor car mods, but you definitely can feel the difference with things like sways and bushings. Even stuff that doesn't involve new hardware (like a new alignment) can definitely make a perceptible difference.
The only "free" things I've been able to do to improve PC performance have been silly things like homemade air ducts or just cleaning heatsinks out. I guess you can do things like trim fat from an OS installation as well, but I've only noticed performance improvements from things like that on hardware that's stupidly outdated. Maybe things are different in an office IT environment, but for home use stuff (read: gaming performance) there's usually not much free / cheap stuff you can do to improve performance beyond what I'd consider maintenance tasks (like applying driver updates and tweaking software settings)... you're not gonna bump a 3dmark score up appreciably without replacing something expensive.