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How Can You Make Your Computer Faster while Staving Off the Computer Repair Shop?

2009 October 29
Posted by fmlw

If you have a slow computer, you can do some of these things to speed up your computer, just like a computer repair business.

This is a compact synopsis of some of the methods a computer repair workshop will use to make a system work quicker than ever before.

First off you can overclock the main CPU and the graphics CPU.  This means you make it run speedier than the manufacturor intended.In General, this is copasetic because CPU’s are designed to function beyond the specified speed. Switching the FSB and clock settings on your computer is how you can alter the speed of the CPU.  You can get at these settings on your system through the BIOS setup menu.

When you are considering overclocking your system you should assure that the cooling system in your computer is operating properly as extraordinary hotness can cause system crashes.

Switch the synchronization of the RAM: lower the CAS Latency setting of 3 or 2.5 2. This will make memory speedier but can also lead to lock-ups in systems that incorporate memory chips of bad quality. CAS stands for “column address strobe”.

You can also speed up your computer by moving your swap file (this is where virtual memory is stored) to some other disk in your system.  The swap file will perform faster when it is not on the identical drive as your operating system. This well help, but getting at the virtual memory stashed away on any hard disk is much slower than getting at information committed in material memory. If you discover that the hard drive is perpetually operating while you do anything on the computer this may mean that the computer is forever using virtual memory.  In this case you will have to do a little computer repair and contribute some material RAM to the computer.