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Old December 3rd, 2007, 06:21 AM
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Default Re: OT: Speeding up a slow computer

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Will said:
Just about every desktop computer in the past several years has had the bottleneck at I/O instead of processing power.

2) Split your discs. If you have four partitions on one disc, you still have the latency of one disc.
Wouldn't it make more sense to move the swap rather than C: ?I guess it depends how much memory he has and how often the swap is used. Does Windows allow you to put your swap drive onto a USB flash drive? They tend to be pretty quick if you have a spare USB2 slot, and you can get a gig or two for pocket change these days. Then you could have Windows on one hard drive, games, programs and data on another and swap on USB, for super-fast performance=-)

But do max out your memory first, as Will suggests.
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