Here's a good resource to check out. However if you really want to improve performance you'll have to think about upgrading your hardware. (I saw a significant performance increase by moving my data and full text index files to separate read-optimized disks and by moving logs and tempdb to separate write-optimized disks -- a total of 4 extra disks plus 1 more for the OS and SQL Server binaries.).
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