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#1 muirplayer
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I suppose Intel found some sort of roadblock which has been preventing them from upgrading the cores frequency past a certain amount; maybe it was a overheating issue. Anyway, something was stopping progress, so they went with multiple cores. Multicore has its advantages. On web browsers(Chrome, IE, not Firefox though), for instance, it prevents the whole window from crashing if a single tab crashes. Also, you wont have your whole computer freeze up if something has performance issues/bugs taking up 100% processing.bzwax

Had to lol at that...

At any rate - a better explanation or analogy. Any program that is threaded (or programmed to use two or more cores) divides work or a process among the cores, instead of having one core work through everything, essentially making processes completed faster.

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#2 muirplayer
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Have yet to see one. In any situation though - displaying that information won't necessarily reveal a bottleneck. Bottlenecks are best found through a combination of benchmark results.
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#3 muirplayer
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Yes, it's a GS problem, and posting links properly here is a pain.
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#4 muirplayer
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As far as I know, there's no thermal paste that will actually damage your processor. Maybe if you use something that isn't thermal paste, you could damage it. Anyhow, anything the page I'm listing should do you good. There are adhesives on the page also, don't use those on a processor. Surface cleaners/purifiers are a waste of money - rubbing alcohol fits the job of cleaning.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010110085%204024&name=%240%20-%20%2410

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#5 muirplayer
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eVGA isn't listed. Can't vote.

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#6 muirplayer
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Never used it, stand by always freezes, used to just leave my computer on 24/7 or shut off at night, but want to start saving money on utility bill and think that shutting and restarting my pc several times a day is probably bad for it. Is hibernating the same as shutting down your computer completely with all power off but the only difference being it doesnt restart your operating system and programs? Will this save just as much power as shutting to down? Does it wake up instantly like standby would? thanks!

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If you're going to put the computer on hibernate with no programs running, it'd essentially be the same as shutting it down. Hibernate isn't really used for energy saving means, but for work/project saving means in any event where you may have to turn your computer off while in the middle of completing something. Shutting your computer down often will not hurt it at all. Shutting a computer down is almost like letting it take a dump, which is needed. :) I've never used it, but I find it hard to see how a computer would boot faster from hibernation. It's still booting from the hard drive and loading information to the ram; and if you programs running, that's extra information that has to be loaded which should make the booting process take longer.
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#7 muirplayer
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Either you installed the drivers wrong, your videocard isn't operating properly or the monitor is bad. The native resolution of "the t220" is 1680x1050, which in my experience get's defaulted to after installing drivers. The screen shouldn't be flickering as you can't change refresh rates on an LCD monitor. Go to control panel Find "System" and open it Select the hardware tab and click device manager Click the + on display adapters Highlight your videocard and click the uninstall button Restart and reinstall drivers Install monitor drivers if possible also
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#8 muirplayer
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After having one for some time now - it's a good choice if you plan on using f@h. Dual card folding on a single card. It was a considerable gain in performance though since I moved from a 8800gts 640. Other than that... you're stuck with stock cooling it exhausts its hot air out the side of the card into the case (unless you have a side fan which will blow the air out) rumors of it only being able to use 512mb of its 1gb of ram If you planned on using any programs that use the videocard for processing, only 1 core will be used instead of both (128sp instead of the full 256sp).
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#9 muirplayer
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is 8gb ddr3 really best choise for tuday and near future?

how much tuday most demanding games can suck gb of ram playing game on full hd res on windows vista x64 ultimate?

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32bit based games can only allocate somewhere between 2 and 3gb of ram. Higher resolutions effect the ram on the videocard more so than the system memory. Performance gains of ddr3 over ddr2 memory aren't really worth the jump in price. 8gb of ram isn't necessarily overkill. Just for gamers and average users. However, with 8gb of ram you should be able to turn the paging file off, forcing windows to use the ram only, in which you may notice things will move faster than having windows push data into the hard drive paging file.
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#10 muirplayer
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RAID 0 is for performance gains, the others are for reliability.

RAID arrays SHOULD consisit of hard drives that are the same in size, although slight differences can be tolerated.