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Thread: Overclocking |
    
Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966
WEST MONROE ,
LOUISIANA
USA
Post Number: 384
Registered: Jan-06
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| Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 05:28 pm: |
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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: Illuminator
USA
Post Number: 4655
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 05:30 pm: |
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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+). |
Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966
WEST MONROE ,
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Post Number: 386
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| Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 05:36 pm: |
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Well, I was mainly talking about a software download, or maybe some tricks in windows. |
Gold Member Username: Illuminator
USA
Post Number: 4663
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 06:08 pm: |
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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 |
Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966
WEST MONROE ,
LOUISIANA
USA
Post Number: 389
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| Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 09:03 pm: |
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What does Celeron have to do with it? its a good computer...512mb RAM do i need more? |
Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966
WEST MONROE ,
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USA
Post Number: 390
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| Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 09:24 pm: |
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just downloaded firefox, then did a little tweak I found on the internet...damn its fast...of course cable internet doesn't hurt either |
Gold Member Username: Illuminator
USA
Post Number: 4673
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 09:30 pm: |
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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. |
Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966
WEST MONROE ,
LOUISIANA
USA
Post Number: 391
Registered: Jan-06
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| Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 09:35 pm: |
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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.
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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? |
Gold Member Username: Illuminator
USA
Post Number: 4676
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Wednesday, August 30, 2006 - 09:43 pm: |
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Yep, another 512 will make a difference for sure, especially for having multiple applications open. |
Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966
WEST MONROE ,
LOUISIANA
USA
Post Number: 392
Registered: Jan-06
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| Posted on Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 01:01 am: |
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OK, but I am wondering...how good is my speed now? is almost 5000kbps download fast, and how about my upload speed? |
Gold Member Username: Illuminator
USA
Post Number: 4688
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 01:36 am: |
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It's fast.  |
Silver Member Username: Wolfman1966
WEST MONROE ,
LOUISIANA
USA
Post Number: 396
Registered: Jan-06
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| Posted on Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 08:40 am: |
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isnt 4812kbps the same as 4.812mbps? |
Gold Member Username: Illuminator
USA
Post Number: 4693
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 12:08 pm: |
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Yep. |
Bronze Member Username: Appzalien
Cleveland,
Ohio
US of A
Post Number: 96
Registered: May-06
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| Posted on Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 04:53 pm: |
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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. |
Gold Member Username: Illuminator
USA
Post Number: 4699
Registered: Apr-05
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| Posted on Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 07:37 pm: |
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^Nice, I didn't see that connection. I thought he was trying to make the computer faster, not the internet speed faster. |
