my cpu is to slow?

Question

how can i get it to go realy fast without it costing any money

Answer 1

The CPU is not slow, the problem is that it has to do many things which results in slower operations. Let say you are a regular users which have all the required softwares like messengers, winamp, quicktime etc. Now by default most of the softwares run in background even if you are not using them. The first tip to increase the proformance of you computer is to disable these background programs. The procedure is:
Click on start - Run - Enter 'msconfig' and click on 'ok'.
Now go to the last tab i.e. 'Startup'
In the 'startup item' remove the arrows of general softwares like 'AOL', 'Nero', 'Quicktime', 'msmsgs' etc. Well for better results mail me the complete list of the entries you see here and i will reply you what to disable and what to not. Now click on 'ok' and select the option to restart the system.
now your system will boot a little fast.

Now if you have an antivirus installed then this is the main reason why you cpu is performing slow. Well i am not saying to uninstall it but a better option is to keep it disable when you are not online and you are not using cd/dvd/pen drives from others. this will increase the performance by a good margin.

Third thing you should do is to disable some options in the windows:
a. Right click on 'my computer', go to 'properties', select 'system restore' and check the option to 'turn off system restore on all drives'.

All of the above will definately increase the performance anything from 10-25%.

If you can then install any of the free antispyware software and perform a full system scan and remove any spyware. But don;t forgot to uninstall the antispyware software after performing the scan.

At last what i can say is that if you can then upgrade you RAM to 512MB if you have less than this. At least install a 256MB stick, it may cost you around 15$ if you have DDR RAM.

Bye, in case of any problem you can directly mail me.

Answer 2

You need to be more specific...lag and instability can be caused by several reasons.

do you have windows xp?
How much ram do you have?
You should at least have 512MB of ram to run windows xp. I know it says 192 on the minimum.....but yeah its the bare minimum. If windows takes up 300 comfortably, your hard drive has to take up the extra work of paging back and forth to make space.

what processor do you have?
Processors slower than 1 ghz should not run windows xp.

Do you have virus protection installed?
Viruses and trojans are a major cause of computers slowing down dramatically.

Is UDMA access enabled on your hard drive? Do you have SATA?

YES YOU CAN OVERCLOCK YOUR CPU HOWEVER YOUR PROCESSOR IS RUNNING OVER ITS LIMITS . This shortens the life of your processor. If you don't have a good enough fan, your CPU will reach 200 degrees F and melt to your motherboard. YOu must ALSO have enough case fans to exhaust the heat. Your powersupply must be at least 350 watts to carry the new voltage load
You must know what you're doing when you overclock your pc. If you increase your FSB speed, you need to increase the Chipset voltage. If you increase the CPU speed you also need to change the vcore voltage. I do not recommend this. If your problem is software, it will cost you nothing. If its hardware, just buy a new motherboard and processor. Have someone install them for you.


Muzzah, if you change the memory timing to clock faster than normal it WILL kill your ram....no ifs ands or buts.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Ok, gypsy. Everyone tells you what to do. But for me how old is your computer. If it is too old, well overclocking is out the door. Then if your system has 256 GB of memory then you need to upgrade to more. You might need to buy a video card cause the integrated video card you have is too small. Anyway, Give me the model number and any modifications that you have done and I can tell you what to do.

Answer 5

Hey gypsy u can change the random acces memory of ur CPUs mothrboard.Also procesor can b changd only if ur mothrboard permits whch wl cost a litle more but wl defintly increase the speed of ur system.

Answer 6

Make sure you delete some programs that you don't need. Run a virus scan once a week if you have one. Also, make sure you do a maintenance cleaning by defragementing your hard drive and by freeing up space on your hard disk.

Answer 7

Run a free spyware program.. It will cost some money if you want it to run "really fast".

Answer 8

Delete anything you don't use or need anymore and keep really big files on flash disks or floppies so they are only on your computer when you need them. You might be able to find speed accelators to download for free.

Answer 9

You can overclock your CPU. PC World Magazine has an excellent article on it with simple instruction.

"Secret Tweaks
20 unexpected ways to unleash the true potential of the technology products you already own." -- written by Jim Aspinwall, pcworld.com (http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,119267-page,2/article.html?findid=49714)


PC Hardware: Free Speed: Overclocking Your PC
Performance Boosting Basics

Want a free speed boost for your computer? Try a little overclocking--an enthusiast trick that PC tweakers have been using for years to get free speed out of their systems. Many of today's CPUs can run faster than they're rated to do, and getting that added performance is simply a matter of carefully changing some settings. Overclocking won't turn an ancient PC into a powerhouse, but it can help you squeeze every drop of performance out of your machine.

Two variables set the speed at which your CPU runs: the system bus speed, and the CPU's clock multiplier. To determine the CPU's actual operating speed, those two values are multiplied together. For instance, a bus speed of 100 MHz and a multiplier value of 5.5 translate to a CPU running speed of 550 MHz. This simple formula works with most Intel Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4 chips, as well as with AMD chips.

Some motherboard and CPU combinations let you change one or both of those variables, setting a new speed for the CPU. Boost either setting and you're officially overclocking. In my experience, most CPUs and motherboards will run fine when overclocked 10 to 20 percent faster than the rated CPU speed. The bus speed setting may also affect the speed of the PCI or AGP bus, depending on which chip set the motherboard uses and how that chip set connects to all of the subsystems on the board.

The trick to overclocking is in knowing when to stop. Crank up the speed completely beyond the operating limits of the CPU, system bus, or RAM, and the PC will crash or freeze a lot. If you've set the clock too high on a system that holds the clock settings in BIOS, it may fail to boot, and you'll have to use the PC Setup program to reset the clock settings stored in CMOS RAM. (In some cases, you may have to reset the CMOS RAM more directly: Either remove the CMOS memory retention battery, typically a button-style cell, or move a jumper on the system board; that jumper is often marked 'clear CMOS'.) If your PC uses switches or jumpers to set clock and multiplier values, you'll simply need to reset them to a slower speed.

Utilities like NVidia's NTune, among others I'll discuss below, make it easy to play around with settings, test them, and store certain configs for special occasions--say, when you want a power boost to win in Half-Life 2.

Some systems (mostly the name brands, such as Dell, Gateway, HP, IBM, and Sony) and many Pentium I, II, and III CPUs simply cannot be overclocked; the manufacturers hard-code clocking values into the components to minimize support calls.
CPU Overclocking the Easy Way

Most after-market motherboards built within the past three to four years, such as those from Abit, Asus, MSI, or Tyan, have CPU clock settings available in the PC Setup program stored in the BIOS chip. As your PC boots, an on-screen message should indicate which key you hold down to enter the PC Setup program. Your motherboard manual should explain how to find the parameters that control CPU speed.

The PC Setup program screen in Figure 1 is from an Abit KA7 motherboard that offers lots of overclocking controls when the CPU Operating Speed is set to 'User Define'. The CPU FSB/PCI Clock setting also affects the speed of the PCI bus. I have found that most PCI cards will overclock about as well as the average CPU does.

Overclocking the AMD Athlon XP+ 2600 processor on my ECS KT-600A motherboard involves just one setting. The multiplier in the Athlon XP+ 2600 processor is fixed at 11.5, allowing a CPU speed range between 1910 MHz (166 x 11.5) and 2288 MHz (199 x11.5). The Athlon XP+ 2600 runs at 1900 MHz typically, but the chip I tested worked well when overclocked to 2200 MHz.
CPU Overclocking by the Bits

Before designers made CPU speed settings changeable via software, switches or jumpers on the motherboard controlled the speed. You'll find this arrangement typical of early (3 to 4 years old or older) AMD, Pentium I and II, and Celeron boards. Overclocking with switches and jumpers works in the same way as using settings in PC Setup: You simply increment the multiplier and bus speed settings to speed up the processor until you find a reliable running speed.

The pictures in Figure 3 and Figure 4, above, show the jumper posts for the CPU's frontside bus speed, with options ranging from 100 MHz to 110 MHz. You can see the reference chart for the bus speed jumper settings silk-screened on the board (don't count on such a map being on the board--chances are you'll need a manual handy to properly set the jumpers and DIP switches). The CPU clock speed setting also affects the AGP bus speed on this board. Other motherboards use DIP switches (Figure 4) for both the CPU clock speed and the multiplier settings.

Answer 10

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