Okay, I have about a billion questions.
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 2:09 pm
No, it hasnt broken down KH, but the more I dink around with it, the more and more I want to know.
Topic 1 - Overclocking. Do I just do it to the max, or leave it at its native speed? I havent noticed any lag - Im still quite shocked at the speed of the thing. Where does this help?
Topic 2 - Firewalls. Im running the windows one as it will allow me to access my steam account to play Halflife (which I bought with xmas money to see how well games would work on this thing). I have an nvidia one as well, but disabled it when I read that only one should be working.
Topic 3 - Programs running in the background during normal tasks. In the old days, I couldn't monkey around too much while my PC was downloading, writing discs, etc. Now it seems like I can burn DVDs and while away the time viewing porn, without any decrease in the speed of the writing. Does this sort of behaviour fuck anything up? The discs I've written have all seemed to work fine - maybe I've answered my own question.
I'd ask the same thing about running the defragger and adaware - I used to shut everything down except windows to do these tasks, is that still the best way to do it?
Topic 4 - DVD writing speed. My burner seems to want to write at 8x. If I set it to "Turbo" mode (or whatever it's calle), is it much less likely to burn a good copy?
Topic 5- I forgot this one: I downloaded a Java update and it won't load. It's asking me to check the install notes and I can't find them. Anyone?
I know I'll be back later, thanks for your continued help.
Topic 1 - Overclocking. Do I just do it to the max, or leave it at its native speed? I havent noticed any lag - Im still quite shocked at the speed of the thing. Where does this help?
Topic 2 - Firewalls. Im running the windows one as it will allow me to access my steam account to play Halflife (which I bought with xmas money to see how well games would work on this thing). I have an nvidia one as well, but disabled it when I read that only one should be working.
Topic 3 - Programs running in the background during normal tasks. In the old days, I couldn't monkey around too much while my PC was downloading, writing discs, etc. Now it seems like I can burn DVDs and while away the time viewing porn, without any decrease in the speed of the writing. Does this sort of behaviour fuck anything up? The discs I've written have all seemed to work fine - maybe I've answered my own question.
I'd ask the same thing about running the defragger and adaware - I used to shut everything down except windows to do these tasks, is that still the best way to do it?
Topic 4 - DVD writing speed. My burner seems to want to write at 8x. If I set it to "Turbo" mode (or whatever it's calle), is it much less likely to burn a good copy?
Topic 5- I forgot this one: I downloaded a Java update and it won't load. It's asking me to check the install notes and I can't find them. Anyone?
I know I'll be back later, thanks for your continued help.