Posts by bveld

Thanks for your fast response DarthAcer. I was hoping that you would pick up on this question as I know you have tons of knowledge/experience in this field. It has crossed my mind that maybe DDRII only shows half of the effective...

I have finally decided to buy a 2x1gb Corsair 533mhz DDRII ram as Corsair is definitely a better brand than Kinmax and it was only slightly more expansive. After installing them into my 8104 CPU-Z and Sisoft Sandra shows that they only...

I think I will go ahead an buy a Kingmax 1gb 533mhz DDR2 ram. I know that Kingmax isn't the best out there but I can get it for very cheap. I've done some research whether I want to get 667mhz or 533mhz. It turns out that the 533mhz...

Ransomed thanks very much for this thread. I've never thought that adding 1gb ram would make any difference on my 8104. After gaming I usually check the peak memory usage in task manager and it was always below 1024 mb so I figured that...

Try this tweakguide, it has a very good section about which services you should keep. I strongly recommend it. http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

I use Diskeeper for defraging my hard drive. Probably you are right about the boot time defrag - I might give it a try. Once a boot time defrag screwed up my entire windows and had the reinstall everything. That's why I'm kind of...

Quote: Originally Posted by Ransomed1 Try downloading a trial version of O&O Defrag 8.5 and running the offline defrag (available in the Options menu) to defrag your windows files. Also, get TuneXP and run that and...

How much your notebook weights? Just curious.

I have a similar problem after installing the ATI drivers with CCC on my notebook. It takes around 3-4 min for windows to fully boot up. It's been annoying a lot. I consider myself an advanced computer user, but I couldn't find a...

My 8104 has been overheating during gaming. I tried using the Notebook Hardware Control of course, but if I undervolt below 1.228v my system becomes unstable with some games. I'm thinking to try one of these notebook cooling pads. But...