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[Peter Venkman]

Doh! but then again...yahay! cos its sorted! always nice to get big improvements in speed for no cost whatsoever!

[magicroundabout]

The Scythe Mine has a fan stuck firmly in the middle of a sandwhich of 2 coolers and expels the air to the back of the case exactly as the freezer 7 pro does.

http://www.oldspeak.org/images/scythe-mine-b/13-heatsink-all-round.jpg

are you able to fit in a 120mm fan in this or are you stuck with the 100mm one?

[Peter Venkman]

Nah mate, a 120mm fan can be put in but it overhangs a bit, I havent had the need yet but its possible.....

http://www.scythe-usa.com/product/cpu/023/scmn1000_detail.html

As seen above

[Simon Pieman]

If you want a 12omm fan on a heatsink then a tuniq tower is probably the best option.

[blinkpip]

I recently put an extra 1GB of RAM into my pc and I can't really see any improvement. It reconized it all right and it changed from 500mb to 1.5GB, but performance wise, still seems the same.

Was there something else I got to do apart from sticking the stick in?

[Simon Pieman]

When you say performance what do you mean?

RAM stores data temporarily so it doesn't have to read the hard disk all of the time (which is slower). You might get pauses when you switch from internet explorer to word and try and type something if you don't have enough RAM (as an example).

It's not going to make the raw speed of the computer quicker. So if you want to compress a file or convert a file to an MP3, a faster processor would be more useful. Things like Football Manager won't load quicker in between fixtures (as the processor is being used to generate the other games in between) but switching between menus should be a lot smoother and there should be less of a lag.

What are your other specs and what operating system are you running?

[Peter Venkman]

As Mr Pie says, memory will not affect the general running speed of a PC all it will do is speed up changing/opening/running more than 1 thing at a time type operations, going from 512mb to 1.5gb you will see virtually no difference in running of the PC, also if you are running Vista you may see a very slight improvement, but it will be very slight.

Latest recommendations for XP are 2gb memory running on dual channel and for Vista 4gb seems to be the target.

[blinkpip]

Oh right, I was hoping FM would speed up. boo. Photo programmes suffer a bit.

I'm on XP and my PC is 8 years old.
2.66ghz ATI Radeon Pentium 4, do you think it will be able to support FM 09?

[Peter Venkman]

I personally think that spec will be able to run the new FM09 when it is released but (minimum specs havent been released yet either) I would expect minimum spec to be 1gb of memory, 2ghz processor and XP or Vista.

New PC parts are so cheap now that updating/upgrading your system is advisable before taking on the new FM (or any other new title) as an 8 year old system is getting very very old now (I suggest updating/upgrading a PC every 3 years).

[magicroundabout]

I personally think that spec will be able to run the new FM09 when it is released but (minimum specs havent been released yet either) I would expect minimum spec to be 1gb of memory, 2ghz processor and XP or Vista.

New PC parts are so cheap now that updating/upgrading your system is advisable before taking on the new FM (or any other new title) as an 8 year old system is getting very very old now (I suggest updating/upgrading a PC every 3 years).

or every 18months like at my work!

getting a new PC installed today. currently i'm using a mesh system (C2D 2.13mhz 6400, 2gig ram Asus P5q Board and Nvidia 7600gt Card) with dual 19" monitors.
Upgrading to a Dell but not sure of spec as yet. Still having 2 19" monitors though. 

[Simon Pieman]

Do you have a pc or a laptop VV?

For about £70 you could get a new motherboard and a dual core processor which would run FM no problems at a quick speed.