question about cables......

[Tyler22]

i have a dell 4700....it has:

80 gigs
1gb ddr ram
p4 3.0 ghz

i was just thinking that my computer should be running faster than it is(no viruses or nothing like that).....

my mom has a dell 4600 with:

256 mb
40 gigs
and p4 2.2 ghz

and to me it seems like hers is running faster than mine.....is there something i can do/buy to boost the speed? cables???if so which kind......thanks alot

 

[nick1985]

ummm....cables are not going to do anything, sorry.

 

[Tyler22]

anything else i could do to boost the speed????? my games are all choppy but i assume that is because my graphics card???? does anything else(besides the graphics card) make a difference in gaming?

 

[Oyeve]

pagefile size? clean out your temp directories? latest vid drivers?

 

[Coro Dominicano]

Spy ware .. SPY WARE.. gotta hate them, download Ad-aware or Search and distroy. If you want to see your actual speed, just reinstal the OS

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Is it slow for games or everything?

If it's just slow for games it's probably your video card (or integrated video as the case may be).

 

[MrControversial]

Download Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta. I really like it and technically Microsoft didn't make it...just some company they bought out...

It works like an Antivirus program that you can schedule to run at any time. Plus support. Lots of support with a large company behind it.

 

[imported_itr]

i doubt your mom's computer has a faster graphics card. they both probably run an onboard video. you probably have many unecessary services running in the background. take out some of the programs you don't use by start > run > type 'msconfig', uncheck the uncheck the programs you won't use that often.

 

[Zepper]

Besides running two or three spyware cleaners (Adaware, Spybot Search&Destroy, and the M$ spyware beta), do thorough virus scan with latest definition files. Run CCleaner (CrapCleaner) too, DL from majorgeeks.com.
. Putting your drives on separate controller channels, if they aren't already, may help too.

.bh.

Here have a :beer: !