Most you guys are probably doing this but for those that arent
-clear off your desktop of junk (like face

)
-try moving around where you are running the bench from on your HDD

-manual wazza is about .3s faster than OCX pi tweaker so if you learn to do it the hard way you will be rewarded.
-Sub timings sub timings sub timings, get your butt into CPU tweaker and start lowering them till you freeze!
-XP olive is the only way as just stated
-background services, large system cache
-try different motherboard bios'
-think outside the box, anyone try cas 5?
-16bit and low res, not sure it will help