Some tips to improve your PC performance for the sim

[Timberwolf]

The post seems to be for someone that knows alittle more about computers and it's software.. If your not that good with computers don't mess with your bios or window running programs or overclock anything unless you know what your doing These things will mess up your computer to the point you will need to have it repaired if you mess up

The first thing i would do is know what your computer is and whats installed There are some programs you can use to do this (Speccy) is one of them

Another thing to speed up your computer is close unwanted processes like start up programs (anti virus ) ( Media players ) etc non windows items

Memory cleaners, Histroy sweep, Defrag, Clean junk files, windows updates driver updates, Connection speed test, Temp check,

Many of theses help your computer, speed it up and are eazy to do

I use a free program to do alot of these (Advance system care) If you can't remember the last time you did all these things to your computer .. Google the program I have it in my computer for 1 year now and helped many friends use it on theres

[CWMV]

Overclocking is too easy with an ASUS motherboard with UEFI.
Hell I pushed one button and the PC ran the overclocking program for a mild 4.4ghz. Has run flawlessly for months now and with a Zalman fan has never breached 50* even with CoD running flat out.
Also, I know many guys who have used gamebooster 3 with great success. Reported everything from greatly increased frame rates to the near elimination of stutters. So it seems worth it.
As for windows being the be all end all...have to disagree. IE9 handles like a Yugo, that is not very well at all.
firefox for me!

[SIDWULF]

Originally Posted by CWMV

Overclocking is too easy with an ASUS motherboard with UEFI.
Hell I pushed one button and the PC ran the overclocking program for a mild 4.4ghz. Has run flawlessly for months now and with a Zalman fan has never breached 50* even with CoD running flat out.
Also, I know many guys who have used gamebooster 3 with great success. Reported everything from greatly increased frame rates to the near elimination of stutters. So it seems worth it.
As for windows being the be all end all...have to disagree. IE9 handles like a Yugo, that is not very well at all.
firefox for me!

I don't know Windows 7 is the best Windows has ever been and IE9 has a very large amount of options and is an intergrated part of the windows shell so more compatability and as i mentioned the highly effective smartscreen filter.

I switched from Firefox back to IE 9 when it came out because i saw no reason anymore to use an alternate browser.

IE9 = win

[CWMV]

That's one of the reasons I stuck with firefox.
IE9 has far, FAR too much going on that I will never, ever need.
And its just not as user friendly as firefox. Sorry, but at this point I'm not going to learn a new browser when the old standby is as effective as always.
And after a week with IE9 I just wasn't impressed.
Firefox = easier = win +1

[NLS61]

Originally Posted by CWMV

Overclocking is too easy with an ASUS motherboard with UEFI.
Hell I pushed one button and the PC ran the overclocking program for a mild 4.4ghz. Has run flawlessly for months now and with a Zalman fan has never breached 50* even with CoD running flat out.
Also, I know many guys who have used gamebooster 3 with great success. Reported everything from greatly increased frame rates to the near elimination of stutters. So it seems worth it.
As for windows being the be all end all...have to disagree. IE9 handles like a Yugo, that is not very well at all.
firefox for me!

Please watch you core Voltage can be set way higher then you want.
This can seriously harm you processor over time especially with Intel i5 2500K and i7 2600K.
manual overclocking is much better also gives better results
Watch from 7:55
Or visit http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1578110


Cheers,

Niels

[CWMV]

Originally Posted by NLS61

Please watch you core Voltage can be set way higher then you want.
This can seriously harm you processor over time especially with Intel i5 2500K and i7 2600K.
manual overclocking is much better also gives better results
Watch from 7:55
Or visit http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1578110


Cheers,

Niels

Thanks. Real quick what is the suggested max?