General computer talk/advice

Just finished doing a really good cleaning of my keyboard and the keycaps. It feels so much nicer and cleaner now.

 

Netburst also had a ridiculously deep pipeline with terrible branch prediction and utterly bizzare cycle timings on branch and jump instructions which screwed with many compiler optimisations.
End result, pipeline constantly stalled. It basically never got the opportunity to fill up and provide its benefits as it constantly stopped to wait for certain data to bubble or to flush itself, huge wastes of time.
The deeper pipeline is also why you don't use a Xeon for gaming rather than i5 or i7, although a Xeon is only a few stages longer than an i5/i7 so not overly problematic.

 

so, what should i look out for it not being able to do it? (other then run norton 2004(came pre-installed), stupid piece of shit updated without permission and caused the pc to run out of ram before i could even log in. Speaking of anti-virus any suggestions that work on xp, and won't eat up ram and cpu when not scanning?)

 

Antiviruses are for the weak. I'd installed Avast on my PC a while ago but I disabled it because it's just annoying.
Unless you download crap from russian websites you won't get a virus.

As for not being able to run, forget about any version of Chrome. Firefox will work, but only for 1-2 tabs. It's more RAM limited really.

 

I have Avast and Malwarebytes on all of my PCs running Windows, because it's a fallback layer just in case your mind completely and utterly fails.

 

well, it's a good thing DDR ram is cheap then, i can get a 1GB kit for about $15 on amazon

as for anti-virus, on my actual pc i use microsoft security essentials (well, windows defender, as MSE is built in to windows as windows defender in 8/8.1) and malwarebytes, not intrusive or annoying whatsoever, and keeps my pc nice and safe in case i randomly be an idiot, or one of my siblings manages to get on my pc

anyway, any video game suggestions? atm i believe i'm going to try MM2

(for those wondering and not wanting to look it up, specs are a Celeron D 325, 256MB of ram (until i get 2 512MB sticks, may be a while), whatever IGPU it has, and a 40gb hdd)

 

One GB for $15 is more expensive than DDR3. :|

 

probably, i meant cheap as in i don't have to pay $60 to get it, not cheap as in per/gb

yesterday it was $11 though

 

Why are you working on this PC?

 

because why the hell not, and i'm bored, and i like working on pc's

EDIT: hmm, maybe i'll go for 2gb, it's for some strange reason cheaper (yes, same company) and the HP website says the motherboard supports it

 

We still have a lot of DDR1 just lying around. I've got 4x1GB in this HP low profile. My old P4 desktop had 3.5GB in it. (Simply because it just would not boot at all with 4GB which is stupid because it had 4 RAM slots and support for 64 bit OSes.)

 

For fucks sake, why do you guys virtually get stuff for free. $15, won't buy half a GB of ddr3 here. 1333mhz ddr3 2*4 kit will run you £60 here.

 

heh, it sounds like what you talk about a lot when i link amazon links for things

instead of actually converting it, they literally just change the symbol

because 1333mhz ddr3 2*4 kit is about $60 here in the us

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question, i know PSU brands matter, as do MB brands and all that, but what about Ram brand? and if so, is A-Tech any good? as they seem to have the cheapest option for a 2GB kit (1gb x 2) DDR pc2700(max the compaq will support)

 

What program would i use to overclock my CPU? Thanks

 

none, you overclock a cpu from the bios, not from within windows or linux or whatever your OS of choice is

 

Catalyst has a auto-overclocker utility if you have an AMD CPU. I got 4.4 out of it, but I gave up on OCing on this board.

 

Ok thanks i have a Intel CPU by the way.

 

Sorry, you need to manually do it then. I think Intel has an extreme tuning utility you can try too.

 

Where would i find that in the bios?

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Never mind i found it on their site

 

Simply go in the BIOS and look for performance options. Don't touch the BCLK or Base Clock option unless you really know what you're doing. Simply raise the multiplier. By default the BCLK is 100 MHz. The multiplier is at 34x for the 3770K I think, with a Z77 board and a proper cooler you should get to 40x (4 GHz) safely. For higher frequencies you will need to increase voltage, once again, don't touch that unless you really know your way around it as you can easily kill the CPU.

Remember: DO NOT attempt to overclock on the stock cooler. It will often result in overheating which might kill your CPU.