Reviews 52785 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

Anyone who says performance doesn't matter hasn't tried erasing a power line from a vacation photo or squeezing a CD into MP3 files. As our skills and expectations of what we can do with our PCs rise, we tackle more complex tasks that take more processing power-and more time. Life remains short, so computer speed is important.

If your goal is to get the greatest performance possible out of your system, perhaps the best strategy-and the one most employed-is to replace your old computer with the fastest model you can find. But if you don't have the budget, or if you've recently replaced your PC, we know some tricks that can give you the speed boost you are looking for. Some tips take just a few moments (at least to get them started). Some are a bit more involved or come at an expense. Others are full hardware upgrades of, say, memory or hard drives. We'll give you the lowdown on such upgrades, walk you through the steps, and unveil some interesting discoveries we've made through PC Magazine Labs' testing.

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Reviews 52785 Published by Philipp Esselbach 0

OcPrices.com has published a review of Corsair XMS "Twin X" PC3200 LL PC3200 DDR memory.

Corsair is a name synonymous with fast memory, and its hard to beat in terms of performance. The king has certainly had its work cut out of late however keeping up with the likes of OCZ and GeIL, who have started to provide a very realistic challenge to the king's throne. Corsairs Low Latency Series comes with a specially programmed SPD file that automatically engages all of the tight memory timings allowing the lazy (or more inexperienced) user to get maximum performance without having to mess around in the majority of motherboards' BIOS. Corsair have called this "Plug-n-Frag Auto-Configuration".
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