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Yes I agree that the major cause of my system slow-down is Office 2007 gobbling up system resources – and upgrading the RAM ought to sort that out.
I am toying around with increasing the processor speed as a means to get the whole thing to run faster, in addition to any performance gains from the RAM upgrade.
Currently I have a Pentium 4, 2.99GHz dual channel processor with hyper threading capability running on an Asus P4P800 MotherBoard.
Any ideas how much faster I can reasonably get this to run by overclocking it???
maybe thats why it works ok on mine, I have vista… though i have no idea how this is the case.. as vista uses more ram then xp… computers don’t half confuse me
Can you find out exactly which model Processor you have PB?
@matty wrote:
maybe thats why it works ok on mine, I have vista… though i have no idea how this is the case.. as vista uses more ram then xp… computers don’t half confuse me
Yeah, I haven’t figured that one out either. Anyway I’ll let Vista run until MS bring out at least SP1 (or even SP2) and fix all the bugs.
people who talk about computers confuse me lol!!!
When I upgrade mine I need one of you lot to tell me which one to buy, so I know I will be getting my monies worth 8)
@anita Gofradump wrote:
Can you find out exactly which model Processor you have PB?
Sure – thanks to Mr AIDA 32:
CPUID Properties
CPUID Manufacturer GenuineIntel
CPUID CPU Name Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
CPUID Revision 0F29h
IA Brand ID 09h (Intel Pentium 4A)
Platform ID 0Fh (Socket 478)
IA CPU Serial Number UnknownInstruction Set
AMD 3DNow! Not Supported
AMD 3DNow! Professional Not Supported
AMD Enhanced 3DNow! Not Supported
AMD Extended MMX Not Supported
AMD64 Not Supported
Cyrix Extended MMX Not Supported
IA-64 Not Supported
IA MMX Supported
IA SSE Supported
IA SSE 2 Supported
IA SSE 3 Not Supported
CLFLUSH Instruction Supported
CMPXCHG8B Instruction Supported
Conditional Move Instruction Supported
FEMMS Instruction Not Supported
MONITOR / MWAIT Instruction Not SupportedCPUID Features
36-bit Page Size Extension Supported
Advanced Cryptography Engine Not Supported
Alternate Instruction Set Not Supported
Automatic Clock Control Supported
CPL Qualified Debug Store Not Supported
Debug Trace Store Supported
Debugging Extension Supported
Enhanced SpeedStep Technology Not Supported
Fast Save & Restore Supported
Fast System Call Supported
Hyper-Threading Technology Supported
L1 Context ID Supported
Local APIC On Chip Supported
LongRun Not Supported
LongRun Table Interface Not Supported
Machine-Check Architecture Supported
Machine-Check Exception Supported
Memory Type Range Registers Supported
Model Specific Registers Supported
Page Attribute Table Supported
Page Global Extension Supported
Page Size Extension Supported
Pending Break Event Supported
Physical Address Extension Supported
Processor Duty Cycle Control Supported
Processor Serial Number Not Supported
Random Number Generator Not Supported
Self-Snoop Supported
Thermal Monitor Supported
Thermal Monitor 2 Not Supported
Time Stamp Counter Supported
Virtual Mode Extension SupportedI thought i may be able to find the settings for you to be able to overclock without any problems by someone who has already done it. Unfortunately i could not.
The only problem is it’s very fiddly as i know from personal experience, its just a case of having a play until you reach your highest point you can get the CPU to go while the system being stable still. If you use the wrong voltage multiplier settings you may get no response from your system what so ever, and for someone who would be doing it for the first time would freak them out and think they killed there system lol.
Rather than try and suggest which voltage multipliers to use and which settings for the RAM and FSB, which would be almost impossible for me to predict not having your system infront of me, it wouldnt do you any harm to have a look on some overclocking sites such as thisGeneral guide for overclocking intel cpu’s
http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/1567-intel-overclocking-guide.htmlOh 1 other thing, if you do manage to sucessfully overclock the system, i advise you to install a system monitor program (such a motherboard monitor)to keep and eye on the temperature of the processor and motherboard, as it will be higher due to the overclocking. If you should encounter a high temp, try a program called “cpuidle” it lowers the temp on average by about 10C.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for that. It pretty much confirms my own feeling that maybe overclocking is not for the faint hearted.
I think I’ll stick to the RAM upgrade right now and see what improvements that makes.
Starting to go for it in 10 mins ….. fingers crossed.
BANG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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