Shutting Down Processes/Aplications before gaming?

I used to in the mid to late 90's, but hardware is much much faster and able to multitask a lot easier nowadays so there's not really any need.
 
I set my AV into game mode and then get on with it. Not too fussed about processes - I'm more concerned about what might want to access the net when I'm about to shoot a railgun or summat.
 
I never close anything, I frequently have something running on my TV from my PC while I'm playing a game of some description. Never really get any problems with anything slowing down and if I do I just go turn off whatever it is that is causing it. I definitely don't go the effort of finding and closing background processes etc, did it once or twice and noticed 0 performance increase. Especially considering most games are GPU intensive rather than CPU, adding a few background processes for the CPU to handle while gaming makes no difference.
 
Same here, just leave everything running as normal and get on with it. Though I did tweak the settings on McAfee first.
 
Back when I used to have my dad's old pc throwbacks (a 486, later my grandad's faster 486 - which i still have :p, a P200MMX then lastly a Duron 700) and on my P4 I used to have to as well. On my modern PC though I don't really seem to need to close anything.
 
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I did a quick test between using gamebooster and not using it during some benchmarks. It made about 100 3dmark scores at most tbh.
 
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