The fake optimization score
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The pattern
Your PC gets a score like "61/100" with no explanation of how it's calculated. After you click the button, it jumps to "94/100" — a number designed to go up, not to mean anything.
The tell
The score moves the instant you "optimize," before anything could possibly have been measured, and the formula behind it is never shown.
The honest version
What the honest version of this looks like ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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