HPET (High Precision Event Timer)
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What it means
One of several hardware clocks your PC can use to keep time. Old forum guides swear that forcing or disabling it gives big FPS gains.
More detail
On a healthy modern system there's usually no benefit either way — a minority of boards measure slightly better, a minority measure worse, most see nothing. Windows already picks a good timer on its own. If you ever test it, change one thing, measure with a real benchmark, and put it back unless it's clearly better.
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