Enhancing Performance

Take Care Of Your BIOS Settings

This simple option could already increase your system performance considerably! If you've never touched the BIOS setup it's about time to give it a try. Lots of computer companies and even the BIOS itself tells you to be careful with the settings, but as long as you are taking precautions nothing bad will happen to your system at all.

Enter the BIOS Setup by pressing whilst system boot up. Now your are in the BIOS setup menu. Choose the different menu points and write down your settings. Now you can change your settings according to my BIOS Guide . In case the computer is occuring problems, you always can change back to your old settings again. You can't do any permanent damage in case you have choosen the wrong settings and you always can change the settings back, because your computer will always reach the BIOS setup.

Try To Tune Your Chipset Settings

This is something for specialists. There is an actual way to change your chipset settings beyond the settings your BIOS is able to change. You will need some software for it. One program I know is from the German c't Magazine. It's written by nobody else than Andreas Stiller , the ingenious PC journalist, managing editor of c't Magazine's hardware section and author of ctcm. With this program you can change settings while your system is running. Dave Burke was so nice to translate and write the configuration file for Intel PCIsets, including the Mercury, Neptun, Saturn, Triton FX, HX and VX chipset.

I'll soon dedicate an own page to this subject and add configuration files for the VIA and hopefully the SiS chipsets.

For now, I only can offer you to download this nice little utility.

Always Use Up To Date Drivers

I guess there's not much to say about this.

Have a look at THE DRIVERS HEAD QUARTERS !

Overclock Your CPU Or Increase The Bus Seed

Well, in case you havent found these pages yet, it's about time to read both thoroughly.

Tom's Overclocking Guide

Tom's Bus Speed Guide

High Performance Hardware

You should have a look at the Motherboard Guide