Dose turning off sound improves Windows performance?

[ImInHugeTrouble]

Hi, Im working on my project which requires tons of system resource, and I have to turn off as many things as possible.

 

I do not need to use sound from my computer, if I turn off everything related to sound will it reduce load on my computer?

 

I'm currently using Windows 7, I'have unplugged my speaker and disable sound card. What else do I need to do?

[spartaman64]

desolder the onboard audio also /s

[Turtle Rig]

6 minutes ago, ImInHugeTrouble said:

Hi, Im working on my project which requires tons of system resource, and I have to turn off as many things as possible.

 

I do not need to use sound from my computer, if I turn off everything related to sound will it reduce load on my computer?

 

I'm currently using Windows 7, I'have unplugged my speaker and disable sound card. What else do I need to do?

Not even by 0.2 percent faster.. So don't waste your time on that...

[Mira Yurizaki]

7 minutes ago, ImInHugeTrouble said:

I'm currently using Windows 7, I'have unplugged my speaker and disable sound card. What else do I need to do?

This is the first problem. If you're trying to reduce "resource usage" as much as possible, Windows is not the OS you should be considering.

 

Otherwise no, turning off sound or disabling it won't really improve performance to a noticeable degree.

[kelvinhall05]

The difference will be unnoticeable. You'd free up more resources by installing a lightweight Linux distro.

[Emanbaird]

This was a thing in the DOS days but even then they barely made a difference

 

[Kisai]

4 hours ago, ImInHugeTrouble said:

Hi, Im working on my project which requires tons of system resource, and I have to turn off as many things as possible.

 

I do not need to use sound from my computer, if I turn off everything related to sound will it reduce load on my computer?

 

I'm currently using Windows 7, I'have unplugged my speaker and disable sound card. What else do I need to do?

If you have to resort to turning hardware off, you're barking up the wrong tree.

 

Yes, "onboard" sound does impair system performance, but only if audio is actually being played. Likewise the GPU will impair CPU performance the higher the resolution being run. But we're not talking about significant numbers unless certain conditions are met.

 

For example, an onboard sound chip might, at most, pull 2% CPU performance, and only while it's playing stereo audio. This will drop to 0% on a PCI/PCIe sound card due to hardware mixing. An intel onboard GPU consumes CPU resources, even if it's not being used for video (eg just quicksync video decoding), but if you don't install the driver (eg the system runs in VGA mode), then the CPU does everything. So you end up consuming more resources by not having the driver installed. If you run an external GPU without it's drivers, the same thing applies.

 

Installing the driver, and then disabling it from within the OS, is the preferable option over not installing the driver at all, as at some point the OS may install it anyway. Even if turned off in the BIOS.

 

If you are trying to maximize the CPU performance, you should be running FreeBSD. Alternatively build your own Linux distro and recompile the kernel so that only the drivers for the hardware that exists in the system is compiled in, and everything else is turned off.

 

With FreeBSD or Linux, the drivers are only loaded if the hardware is found during PCI/PCIe/USB/etc probes unless it's compiled into the kernel, which is why you'd probably want to strip out anything from the kernel you don't actually have, and then recompile it explicitly for the CPU in the system.

[DavidKalinowski]

It would help to know what type of project you are working on. It seems like maybe some type of rendering?

[Princess Luna]

Okay... if you got to the point of needing to disable audio for performance then it's time for Linux indeed lolz