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burneyrubber

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first of all hi all :)

ive floated around this board a few times before but now im wondering if you guys (and girls) could help me out as its certianly your field.

ive had my pc for a while,i basically just bought the parts and put it all together and away i went,i never messed around with the bios or anything and to be fair its been great for ages.
recently ive started to do more complex work in illustrator which on my last job decided to tell me i didnt have trhe ram to finish the process.
however i think 4gig of ddr3 should be enough so maybe im bottle necking (thats a bit of geek talk i picked up there..i hope it means somthing or ill get my coat).

so i was just hoping you guys could take a look at my bios set up and tell me if theres anything obvious i should do.


many thanks in advance and drinks on me yay.

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Does your BIOS have any energy saving function enabled which causes the processor to vary it's frequency depending on the load on it. If so, disable it. I asked because I saw different multipliers in the BIOS and CPU-Z.
 
If you change the advanced power settings in windows you can stop windows from throttling the CPU back.
 
where exactly is that setting? im running xp by the way as vista is rubbish and win7 dosent run the progs i need properly as yet
 
are you running 64 bit xp? If not you won't get your full 4Gbs. Also have you run looked at the resource usage in task monitor to see how much memory certain processes are using? That would give you an idea of what you can do to cut back on memory usage.

If you don't know what advanced power settings or task monitor is, just try googleing "how to use ______" and you should find it pretty quickly.
 
where exactly is that setting? im running xp by the way as vista is rubbish and win7 dosent run the progs i need properly as yet

Sorry i didn't like xp so i never got into it properly,hopefully someone else can help you with that.
On vista\7 it's in the advanced power options.
 
im going to switch to 7 next week as i am only on 32bit xp and ive just bought another 4gig of ram.
i just hope my usual programs still work on 7
 
Hope they do,i have been using 7 since RC 7701 and never looked at vista again.
I haven't had any problems with programs so far.
 
i never upgraded to vista as xp has always been good for me but now with the extra ram etc i think its time for a change.
can i still run programs in 32bit mode using 64bit win7 if i need to?
 
The vast majority of 32-bit apps will run on any 64-bit OS. Certain apps have issues, and it is these apps which have separate installers for 64-bit operating systems.
 
getting your 5 posts done are you mate :)
silly rule,just creates replys like that ^

$100 says his 6th post is his computer problem ;)
 
Burneyrubber,

Rage_2k_Moiz is correct. If you would like to learn more about the differences between a 32-bit operating system and 64-bit please go to the following link: http://bit.ly/2aT3xP

Jessica
Microsoft Windows Client Team
 
Burneyrubber,

Rage_2k_Moiz is correct. If you would like to learn more about the differences between a 32-bit operating system and 64-bit please go to the following link: http://bit.ly/2aT3xP

Jessica
Microsoft Windows Client Team

This has some very general info, but not much detail. Here are some better links to understand the differences between 32bit and 64 bit are.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit

http://gizmodo.com/5133771/why-you-should-go-64+bit-with-windows-7

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/5709
 
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