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Posted: November 27, 2000 Written by: Tuan "Solace" Nguyen Conclusion In this article I’ve outlined a few steps you can take to make sure your computer performs at its peak. Making sure every component runs cool ensures that your computer will last and perform at its best. When you try to tweak something, take a look around and see if there is anything you can do to make your sure your setup will perform well at its roots. Having a hot system and trying to overclock it at the same time is not a good idea. Start from the bottom and work your way up. The lowest level of tweaking is cooling. Middle level tweaking is optimizing your hardware using the BIOS and or switches or jumpers on your motherboard. Overclocking your graphics card, processor or anything else is also considered a mid level tweak. High level tweaking deals with the software you’re running. Optimizing your operating system, software and games and making sure that they take full advantage of your lower level tweaks is a high level tweak. I’ve seen some people spend hours and days fine tuning their hardware but their operating system is a mess. They have unnecessary utilities and monitoring tools running in the background. These utilities take a toll on CPU cycles and ultimately slow down your souped up computer. To make a long story short, cooling your computer well is the most basic tweak you can do. I can’t stress that enough. And if you didn’t realize that before, you will if you try it. It’s a lot of fun and when you try it, you won’t want to stop doing it. Tweaking and upgrading is like a sport. Do it, have fun doing it, and learn from it. Once again, thanks for reading. I hope you’ve learned a few tips from this guide and more are sure to come so stay tuned. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to email me or you can always catch me in channel #tweak3d on any Undernet server, IRC. Click here for a printer friendly version. |
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