Some of the new Network cards ( I know one from 3COM has it) do provide capabilities of offloading some of the network protocol functionality like checksum from CPU. This is helpful since its free your CPU time and in a nutshell increases the CPU response time and overall speed by allowing CPU to do other jobs. It may not work on all cards of some of the cheap models but nothing wrong in giving it a try. To implement this tip, do as follows: :idea::idea: Navigate to [b][HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters][/b] and look for the data key "[b]DisableTaskOffload[/b]" and set its value to [b]0[/b] to enable the task offload. By default if key is present, its set to 1 to disable NEED SOME REPU