My Fresh off the Block PC

Can your mother boards bios support the 12G of memory? If it can, you could do away with the need for a swap file.

Mark

 

MB supports up to 24 gigs and I made sure to get 64 bit OS, I am just not sure why its seeming to bog down so much on things my pentium four handled with ease.

 

What are you running windows 7? I don't know what mine supports but i only have one gig. I do pretty good since i only spent about 150. Needs an upgrade for the future. Plan to get it a better processor mobo more ram a dual core. Power supply is good enough. Case was free only thing it needs is a dusting.

 

lol, not a bad idea. Was thinking more along the lines of



Personally I like working with wood

 

If the software that you are running bogs down, it probably wasn't designed to run on a multi-core chip. It is only running on a single core of the chip, you have turned your computer into a single core P4 # 2.67GHz.

What application are you running the bogs down? My biggest problem child is Photoshop CS3.

Mark

 

Exactly, photoshop and its other companions dreamweaver, flash, and there was something else I beieve it was the nvidia softeware locked it up for about 30-45 seconds completely with my readout screaming 100% cpu usage.

 

The next version of adobe software will be ready to run on multi-core chips. Right now the only major software that utilizes multi-core stuff is the game market.

Mark

 

The simple answer is yes. Just back up your information, which you should be doing anyway. Then just reinstall windows and add your software.

Most of the pros recommend that you start fresh every year.

Mark