PC Tips for improving performance by tweaking your hardware Learn how your hard drive and graphics card impact your system’s performance, and dig deep under the bonnet to discover and fix hardware issues. In previous guides we have looked at improving your system’s performance by simply removing unwanted programs. The next area we want to [...]
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PC Tips for Turning your PC into a Super Computer What, exactly, are supercomputers? The clue is in the name, really: they’re powerful computers capable of calculating many millions of floating operations per second (FLOPS) essentially, they’re very, very fast. While any array of powerful computers, such as a modern-day web server which consists of [...]
PC Tips for Your PC Handling Vista Our first article about configuring AMD and Intel PCs within a budget of $300 made it clear that systems in this price range are suitable for everyday computing tasks. We equipped our Celeron and Sempron test systems with a fast and affordable 160-GB hard drive and one gigabyte [...]
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PC Tips for Changing Windows XP Virtual Memory Size The virtual memory is a portion of your hard disk that acts as RAM memory when your Random Access Memory(RAM) is full. The downside is that is much slower because the access time is determined by the hard disk’s speed. But you need it for those [...]
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This a PC Tips for fixing a bad sector on your harddisk : 1: Double-click on “My Computer”. 2: Select the disk/partition that you want to diagnose and repair. 3: Right click on the disk/partition you selected and click on “Properties” 4: Choose the “Tools” tab. 5: Click the “Check Now” button under “Error Checking [...]
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