If you are going to be tweaking then get yourself setup with: A good memory checker/exerciser A good system performance evaluator And - while running them also run a large file/directory copy to exercise the drives - using both bus time and electrical power And exercise your DVD writer and comms with large file download
Power shouldn't be a problem, but if your PSU is not good at the top end of it's load spec it may start dropping voltage and that will lead to occasional - apparently spurious errors and dropouts I also found that something like the Karenware DirPrt was good for loading IO and memory if you make it compute both MD5 and SHA1 checksums You can repeat the effort on a directory set, and it's copy on DVD - then check them - I've found errors on CD's that way ( checking a month or so after creating the DVD's , and with Nero Verify indicating the DVD's were OK ) Oh! and the 1GB should improve things - but if you are after speed, consider 2GB and setting the Windows switches to stop it using a Swap/Page file. JimB. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kylde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 10:23 AM Subject: Re: ram speed > Yeah a gigabyte 7vt600p, what kind of boost could I expect using a > gentle tweak via giga's Easy-Tune 4? Athlon 2.8 here, 512mb pc2100 (for > now, gonna order a gig of 2700/3200 this week) > > Wayne Johnson wrote: > > > >This mobo is software-clockable so it may be worth me > > >buying the extra speed so I can break it :) > > > > Sounds like a Gigabyte mombo & I'm sure you could break the software long > > before you break the mombo. Some aspect of the system will start to get > > flacky & then you'll have to back off on the settings but that's if you > > start slowly increasing the settings. > > > -- > Regards > > Kylde > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html > Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page > http://winhome.wavijo.com/ > > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unofficial Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://winhome.wavijo.com/
