IT FRIES MY CPU

Umm, it should work fine...MAYBE a little slow, but not lots.

Yeah, you can buy a faster CPU or over-clock the one you have now (not recomended)

BTW, how much memory you have?


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how exactly did it 'fry' your machine? the whole thing overheated, cooked up, or just crashed?

or did it simply run slow?

He probably don't have alot of memory so it slowed down the whole system. That would be my guess.

... can I make it faster?

If it`s actually "fried", not until you get a new one !
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Here is my guess...
Its a typo. fried is supposed to be fries.

Yeah, I was being a little "tongue-in-cheek" there.

Fries or fried either one, to me at least, implies: burns up, frazzles, kills, destroys, permanently incapacitates... along those lines.

My guess (as well as the first two respondents` and kona`s) is IP means it seems to hog up resources or RAM and bogs down the responsiveness of his system.

Of course, DesignCaddy's response brought that all to light.

ANYWAYS: My approach, if I wanted to keep the suite loaded, would basically be to start trimming bells and whistles, both within the suite and anywhere else among active processes (mainly startup programs/components) and hope that, before too long, you regain a tolerable responsiveness.

I have 256 MB of RAM. The computer generally runs slow, and programs that use normally about 20 percent of my CPU crash. And how do you overclock your CPU and what does it do? Thanks for your help, peoples.

More RAM is the route I'd choose. If your running XP, 512MB is a good amount to have, 1gig is better yet. If your running Win9x, 512MB is the max that OS can handle. Overclocking a CPU...if you are asking, I'd recommend you didn't. If you are still interested, do some research on the net about it. Try Google. There's a bit involved in overclocking and keeping your system stable without really frying your CPU

I use to have a PIII 750 Mhtz with 384MB of ram. Everything ran fine for me. I normally ran Object Dock, sysmetrix, rainlender, quicknotes, Windowblinds, Firewall, virus scanner, and I didn''t have any problems. I even loaded a dx object. There are too many ways to expalin how to optimize your system. Registry, unneccessary startup programs, system settings, certain services elimination, messenger removal, spyware removal, virus scan, and defragmentation will all address the issue.

I just upgraded myself to a P4 3 Ghtz with 1 GB of ram and right now I''m typing this on a friends computer because configuring this sucker with windows 98 and XP is a nightmare.

So, it might be better to just get more ram. More ram never hurts either. I just want to be ready for Half Life 2.
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More ram never hurts either

...that all depends if it's a verb or noun...

blow out the dust from around the chip so the fan can cool the processor down. Dust build up inhibits the cooling process and slow down the processor

well heck, don't load Windows XP SP2 or your Computer is Toast!

I think it was Meyend Tripp that has a good pic showing the common result in overclocking a pc. If you do decide to try I would advise having a little money in your pocket for a new one because your gonna need it.

...that all depends if it's a verb or noun...

Tried XP SP2 - some programs didn't work (Microsoft ones... ). So I uninstalled it. The uninstall borked my pc so I had to restore from back-up...

Aside from my comment about trimming the fat to give your system some breathing room I DEFINITELY agree with Essencay`s recommendation to add RAM.

Since your system is probably 3 or 4 years old, I''ll bet enough RAM to fill your system up is fairly cheap ! (perhaps on the order of $100 or so ???).

Crucial (has a good rep., confirm this for yourself !) has a pretty good tool for figuring out exactly which RAM chips you need and of course they sell them: http://www.crucial.com/
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I use corsair DDR meself. Good chips and cheap.

can't go wrong with kingston. but now isn't the time to be buying memory... market's high.

oh yea kona same here. 512 corsair 3200

Since your system is probably 3 or 4 years old, I'll bet enough RAM to fill your system up is fairly cheap ! (perhaps on the order of $100 or so ???).

Well, I saw a dude at CompUSA about it today, and... It's really confusing. But I have two places to put RAM. I used both of them, so I have two 128 MB's. So, I'd need to take out one and get a 256 MB on 1 DDR. Ugh. It confuses me. So it's going to cost $ 200. But will this really, actually be a notable change in the processor's speed?

Yes...

Yes, the extra RAM will make a difference, but check around first for a better price. RAM is high-priced right now, but not that high. Unless you have an unusual motherboard, I''m guessing you need PC100 168-pin DDR. You should be able to get 256MB for under $100 if you shop around.



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