Overclocking
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Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966WEST MONROE , LOUISIANA USA Post Number: 384 Registered: Jan-06 | Ok, I have a new (well, 3 months old) computer with a 3.2 gig Celeron processor, 512mb ram, 60gig hd. Yeah, I know its already fast, but I was wondering what I could do to speed it up even more.Any suggestions? |
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Gold Member Username: IlluminatorUSA Post Number: 4655 Registered: Apr-05 | If you've never done it before, I wouldn't suggest it as it can easily take out your CPU and leave your computer dead until you get a new CPU (which could be $50-120+). |
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Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966WEST MONROE , LOUISIANA USA Post Number: 386 Registered: Jan-06 | Well, I was mainly talking about a software download, or maybe some tricks in windows. |
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Gold Member Username: IlluminatorUSA Post Number: 4663 Registered: Apr-05 | www.getfirefox.com That will prevent you from getting a lot of spyware and popups that are so commonly associated with IE. Thought lately IE's security updates have been much better. It's all mostly just keeping the computer maintained, you really won't get it faster with software, it all comes down to the hardware. I'd suggest another stick of RAM as your first upgrade. Maybe get a faster RPM hard drive...though it would kind of be in vain to do too much upgrading to that computer because it has a Celeron processor :P |
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Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966WEST MONROE , LOUISIANA USA Post Number: 389 Registered: Jan-06 | What does Celeron have to do with it? its a good computer...512mb RAM do i need more? |
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Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966WEST MONROE , LOUISIANA USA Post Number: 390 Registered: Jan-06 | just downloaded firefox, then did a little tweak I found on the internet...damn its fast...of course cable internet doesn't hurt either |
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Gold Member Username: IlluminatorUSA Post Number: 4673 Registered: Apr-05 | Yeah, sure. Celerons just aren't regarded very well by the computer community because of their cheap price matched with lower performance. But they're still great processors that will last forever if they're treated right. Another stick of RAM would be a pretty big upgrade, actually. Shouldn't be too expensive, either. |
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Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966WEST MONROE , LOUISIANA USA Post Number: 391 Registered: Jan-06 | Well, things are definately faster with firefox and the tweak I did. DL was a little over 3000kbps dont know UL speed. Now its 4812kbps download speed, and 356kbps upload speed. \ yes I know that RAM is fairly inexpensive, but I have 512mb...how much more should I add? another 512? and will I see a difference if I do? |
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Gold Member Username: IlluminatorUSA Post Number: 4676 Registered: Apr-05 | Yep, another 512 will make a difference for sure, especially for having multiple applications open. |
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Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966WEST MONROE , LOUISIANA USA Post Number: 392 Registered: Jan-06 | OK, but I am wondering...how good is my speed now? is almost 5000kbps download fast, and how about my upload speed? |
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Gold Member Username: IlluminatorUSA Post Number: 4688 Registered: Apr-05 | It's fast.  |
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Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966WEST MONROE , LOUISIANA USA Post Number: 396 Registered: Jan-06 | isnt 4812kbps the same as 4.812mbps? |
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Gold Member Username: IlluminatorUSA Post Number: 4693 Registered: Apr-05 | Yep. |
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Bronze Member Username: AppzalienCleveland, Ohio US of A Post Number: 96 Registered: May-06 | 1 megabits (informal notation: kilobyte = 1024 bytes) bits 1048576 bytes 131072 kilobits 1024 kilobytes 128 megabits 1 megabytes 0.125 gigabits 0.0009765625 gigabytes 0.0001220703125 4812 kilobits (informal notation: kilobyte = 1024 bytes) bits 4927488 bytes 615936 kilobits 4812 kilobytes 601.5 megabits 4.69921875 megabytes 0.58740234375 gigabits 0.00458908081054688 gigabytes 0.000573635101318359 your downloading at 600 kilobytes per sec or a little over a half a megabyte per sec. Increasing your ram or power supply or overclocking your cpu will not effect your download speed in the least. Thats controlled by your internet connection not the speed of your cpu or ram. |
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Gold Member Username: IlluminatorUSA Post Number: 4699 Registered: Apr-05 | ^Nice, I didn't see that connection. I thought he was trying to make the computer faster, not the internet speed faster. |