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Lol, you sure do. Just put the font and size in code and I'll copy the size and fonttype and see how it works out.

Originally posted by Richard_Rahl@Oct 31 2007, 01:53 PM
Hey Gm2, could you give us more info about that cpu-optimizer program of yours? When it comes to optimising cpu/gpu's, I am quite a layman.

Thanks in advance!

Basically it is a CPU affinity tool, which remembers which CPU Core you assign a particular program or system process too.

In a standard dual or quad core environment, be it either 2000/XP or Vista, your primary core will take on most of the tasks. You can become more efficient by not only assigning all your programs across all cores, but also system processes. If you use the tool I linked to and set it to automatic mode, everything that loads is assigned a different core and the performance increases can be quite incredible. So essentially, windows spreads itself across all cores and everthing you load up afterwards will do the same.

Manual mode is quite powerful for tweaking configs. Say for instance you like playing WoW, You also like using TeamSpeak and you also have something downloading via P2P. You can assign 50% of the load of Windows OS, 100% Teamspeak and 100% P2P client to core2 and then CS Source has far more of core1 to work in and the performance of the other applications is not affected at all!

Seriously, It is a must have tool.

Originally posted by Gm2â„¢+Nov 5 2007, 11:00 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Gm2â„¢ @ Nov 5 2007, 11:00 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Richard_Rahl@Oct 31 2007, 01:53 PM
Hey Gm2, could you give us more info about that cpu-optimizer program of yours? When it comes to optimising cpu/gpu's, I am quite a layman.

Thanks in advance!

Basically it is a CPU affinity tool, which remembers which CPU Core you assign a particular program or system process too.

In a standard dual or quad core environment, be it either 2000/XP or Vista, your primary core will take on most of the tasks. You can become more efficient by not only assigning all your programs across all cores, but also system processes. If you use the tool I linked to and set it to automatic mode, everything that loads is assigned a different core and the performance increases can be quite incredible. So essentially, windows spreads itself across all cores and everthing you load up afterwards will do the same.

Manual mode is quite powerful for tweaking configs. Say for instance you like playing WoW, You also like using TeamSpeak and you also have something downloading via P2P. You can assign 50% of the load of Windows OS, 100% Teamspeak and 100% P2P client to core2 and then CS Source has far more of core1 to work in and the performance of the other applications is not affected at all!

Seriously, It is a must have tool. [/b][/quote]
Thanks! But could you please provide a link, or at least the application's full name so that I can search for it?

Originally posted by Richard_Rahl@Nov 3 2007, 05:12 PM
Gazz, I have got a suggestion for this topic's twin brother. If I were you, I should put the description in a smaller font, below the head. For example:

[size=14]Disk (de)fragmentation

[size=7](description)

[size=1] Sugested software

But it seems I have trouble getting that lay-out in this post

Well Gazz, here is a new attempt to make my lay-out suggestion:

[font=Arial][size=14]Free defragmentation software[/FONT=Arial][/SIZE=14]

[font=Times][size=7]Fragmentation is caused when there's not enough conjuncted free hard disk space to get all the data of a program in a single line. Defragmenting solves that issue and amongst other things makes file easier and better accessible.[/FONT=Times][/SIZE=7]

[font=Times][size=1] -Auslogics Disk Defrag: It's not the best, but it's free and for that you get an excellent program.[/FONT=Times][/SIZE=1]


Same trouble again, I better let you take care of the fonts and sizes. I guess you can deduce them from the coded stuff.

CPU-Control
http://www.koma-code.de/index.php?option=c...id=88&Itemid=93

Originally posted by Gm2â„¢@Nov 5 2007, 04:31 PM
CPU-Control
http://www.koma-code.de/index.php?option=c...id=88&Itemid=93

thanks again!

Turn off Vista's side bar. Ok, your system speeds up barely 1%, but that's still 1% ! (rough estimation, BTW)
It also gives you more space for your desktop icons (that need so much space, being so big).

Well, I'll edit the topic tomorrow and make it look like the Alternatives to windows topic. That has a way better layout.

ImgBurn

ImgBurn is a lightweight CD / DVD / HD DVD / Blu-ray burning application that everyone should have in their toolkit!

It has several 'Modes', each one for performing a different task:

* Read - Read a disc to an image file
* Build - Create an image file from files on your computer or network - or you can write the files directly to a disc
* Write - Write an image file to a disc
* Verify - Check a disc is 100% readable. Optionally, you can also have ImgBurn compare it against a given image file to ensure the actual data is correct
* Discovery - Put your drive / media to the test! Used in combination with DVDInfoPro, you can check the quality of the burns your drive is producing

Originally posted by Richard_Rahl+Nov 5 2007, 02:43 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Richard_Rahl @ Nov 5 2007, 02:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--Richard_Rahl@Nov 3 2007, 05:12 PM
Gazz, I have got a suggestion for this topic's twin brother. If I were you, I should put the description in a smaller font, below the head. For example:

[size=14]Disk (de)fragmentation

[size=7](description)

[size=1] Sugested software

But it seems I have trouble getting that lay-out in this post

Well Gazz, here is a new attempt to make my lay-out suggestion:

[font=Arial][size=14]Free defragmentation software[/FONT=Arial][/SIZE=14]

[font=Times][size=7]Fragmentation is caused when there's not enough conjuncted free hard disk space to get all the data of a program in a single line. Defragmenting solves that issue and amongst other things makes file easier and better accessible.[/FONT=Times][/SIZE=7]

[font=Times][size=1] -Auslogics Disk Defrag: It's not the best, but it's free and for that you get an excellent program.[/FONT=Times][/SIZE=1]


Same trouble again, I better let you take care of the fonts and sizes. I guess you can deduce them from the coded stuff. [/b][/quote]
Free defragmentation software

Fragmentation is caused when there's not enough conjuncted free hard disk space to get all the data of a program in a single line. Defragmenting solves that issue and amongst other things makes file easier and better accessible.

-Auslogics Disk Defrag: It's not the best, but it's free and for that you get an excellent program.

When you're making this, make sure you delete the =1, =times etc at the end of the tag (the /).