This is true, but if you don't understand how they're doing what they claim to be doing it's best to avoid the shinny. All the glitters is not gold. Also, if the author refuses (or can't) explain how it's working, it's snake-oil at best. Karam's patches fall into that category so far.

I believe I was that "bonehead". And it wasn't totally proven to be maxcpu. Five people on the thread were complaining about speed issues. All five also happen to have speedpatch installed. Seems like an awful big coincidence to me.

One of them decided to do the right thing: re-flash and test after each install. He "determined" it was maxcpu, but only after installing speedpatch again, which as we both know tweeks config parameters. He "tested" speedpatch by uninstalling it, but we both know that does nothing to undo what's been done.

That doesn't tell me it's not speedpatch, but rather that there's a conflict with using speedpatch and maxcpu. Since lots of others are using maxcpu without issue without speedpatch, I'm thinking either/both of them are probably not worth the gamble. If he would be willing, I would love for him to re-flash, and just install maxcpu, without speedpatch. That would clarify that it was in fact just that app. My bet: It's something speedpatch is doing to the system, and maxcpu is just amplifying the problem.

Personally, I prefer swapolube for one simple reason: At any given time, I can hit one button and restore every tweak done back to the system stock values. If you add that to your "patch" set, a way to fully uninstall and undo/restore all configurations your patch touches back to stock defaults, and then we'll see what's really going on. Until then, you're tweaking things you don't understand and/or refuse to explain, and making promises that more often than not fail.

Want me to stop suggesting against it? Make it so an uninstall replaces all the values you're touched, and explain how what you're tweaking improves anything at all. (Basically, reply with answers to freemangordon's post below.) Do that, and I'll be happy to tell people go ahead and try it. But without knowing what it's doing, and no way to undo what it's done? It's like playing Russian roulette, and I will advise against it.