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I did have nothing else to do so I thought I would put together a PC that I believe is hard to beat , Although i'm sure there are alot cheaper parts and you could probably build a better computer i'm just giving people a rough idea of what price range they could get these sort of things for.

Took me about 2 hours to find this and it might help anyone who is on Vista therefore i'll post it Takes ages to read although it's worth it depending on what you do. These tips/tweaks were compiled from various sites and from my own knowledge, hope you manage to gain that extra 10fps that you crave in CS:S or play TF2 without lagging I accept no responsiblity if you fuck up your own computer, These tweaks are tried and tested and work perfectly fine, if you mess up, its your own fault If you are not confident about using any of these tweaks, Dont use them. Simple as. Hope you like it 1. Improve Sata Performance This tip “enhances” drive performance by allowing the drive in question to perform more write caching to system memory. The danger is if your system loses power and you do not have a backup power source (UPS), whatever data is cached to system memory will be lost. If you’re the adventurous type and want a bit more responsiveness out of your system, click Start, type Device Manager in the Search box, click the Device Manager, open up the Disk drives tree, right-click a drive, and select Properties. Go to the Policies tab and check “Enable Advanced Performance.” Click OK. 2. Flip3D Animation This tip will be useful for notebook owners or anyone whose PC is packing less than stellar graphics processing power. The Flip3D animation can bog down weaker graphics cards if it has to flip a lot of windows, so this is a tweak that lets you set the number of windows that will be rendered in 3D at one time. Click on the Start Button, type regedit in the Search bar, and press Enter. Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER, Software, Microsoft, Windows, and DWM. Create a new DWORD and call it Max3DWindows. Set the value of this to something between four and nine (“4” and “9”) depending on the performance of your card (a higher number requires more video card power). You should then feel free to experiment to find the best value for your computer. Restart your PC to finalize the change 3. Disabling Windows Features Open up Control Panel and go to the Programs and Features section. Find the link for "Turn Windows features on or off" The following is a huge list of what everything does, so if you are unsure, refer to it and it will give you an in-depth explanation as to what it does.Here 4. Speed up windows vista start menu search Right-click on the Start Button and select Properties. Click on the Customize button. Uncheck Search Communications. Set Search Files to Don't Search for files. Click OK. 5. Speed up Windows Aero interface Method 1: Disable Transparent Glass Effect 1. Click on the Desktop and select Personalize. 2. Select Windows Color And Appearance. 3. Uncheck Enable Transparency. Method 2: Disable Windows Minimize/Maximize Animation 1. Click on the Start Menu, enter SystemPropertiesPerformance and hit Enter. 2. On the Visual Effects tab, uncheck Animate Windows When Minimizing/Maximizing. 3. Click OK. 6. Stop applications that auto-start on startup Method 1: System Configuration Utility 1. Click on the Start Button, enter msconfig and hit Enter. 2. Click on the Startup tab. 3. Uncheck items that you do want to auto-start and click OK. Method 2: Windows Defender 1. Click on the Start Button, enter Windows Defender and hit Enter. 2. Click on the Tools from the top menu bar. 3. Click on Software Explorer and select Show for All Users. 4. Select an application to either Remove or Disable. 7. Disable the windows sidebar 1. Right clicking the Windows Sidebar icon in the system tray 2. Click Properties 3. Uncheck the Start Sidebar when Windows starts checkbox 4. Click OK 8. Disable Indexing Click Start then Computer Right Click the C: Drive On General Tab, Uncheck Index this drive for faster searching On the subsequent dialog box, Select Include subfolders and files 9. Turn off Automatic Disk Defragmentation Windows Vista and its always-on defragment feature isn’t really that necessary and can cause system slow down. To disable this: Click Start then Computer Right Click the C: Drive Click on Properties Select the Tools Tab Click on Defragment Now Uncheck Run on a schedule 10. Turn off Windows Hibernation Windows hibernation background services can use a large amount of system resources. If you don’t use the Hibernate feature on a regular basis you may want to disable it to give Vista a performance boost. To disable Hibernation: Select the Control Panel then Power Options Click Change Plan Settings Click on Change Advanced Power Settings Expand the Sleep selection Expand the Hibernate After selection Crank the selector down to zero Click Apply 11. Turn off System Restore Analysis and restore point creation by Windows Vista can eat a fair amount of system resources. Disabling this service will obviously mean the system restore feature in Vista will not be available in the event of a system crash. Change this at your own risk To disable this service: Control Panel > System Click System Protection on the left panel Uncheck the main system drive Agree to the confirmation [b]12. Disable User Access Control (UAC) This much-loathed new Vista feature attempts to protect your system from malware infection by making you manually confirm a whole host of everyday user operations. While it doesn’t directly impact performance, it can be annoying and might be more hassle than good. To disable User Access Control: Click Start then Control Panel Select User Accounts Select Turn User Account Control on or off Uncheck User Account Control Box Restart as recommended 13. Disable excess Windows Services that Auto-Launch at Startup Just like Windows XP, Vista ships with all kinds of services enabled that load at startup and may never be used by most users. To see what loads at startup and disable the ones you likely won’t be needing (they can always be started manually later) Click Start then Control Panel Select Administrative Tools Choose System Configuration Click the Services Tab You can safely deselect: Offline Files (unless you’re using Offline File Sync) Tablet PC Input Service (unless you have a tablet PC) Terminal Services Windows Search (If you have already disabled indexing) Fax (unless you’re using a fax modem) 14. Clearing out un-needed services There are two options here. You can manually go through all 129 services with the aid of this In-depth Guide to help you determine if you might need a service (dependencies and what depends on a given service are listed), or you can run one of our custom Registry Files which will allow you to try out several tweaked settings. Don't worry, if you mess up your services, or you don't like the results of the tweaked settings, you can always go back to the default settings with one of the handy default reg files on the same page. Thats pretty much it. Realize that: Default: The service will not run on default, but if requested to by any other process, it will start up. Automatic:Start up this service right on computer load. Automatic (Delayed Start):Start up this service on computer boot, but starting it up can wait until after user is logged in. The startup of the process can be delayed/set to a lower priority. Disabled: The service will not run, even if requested to. 15. Speed up external hard drives This tweak is going to show you how to increase the performance of your external hard drives by turning write caching back on as well as activating advanced performance. Let’s get started: Click on the start button, then right click on Computer and select Manage. Click on Device Manager on the side menu. Expand Disk drives and locate your external drive from the list. Right click on the drive and select Properties. On the Policies tab, select Optimize for performance. Next, check Enable write caching on the disk and Enable advanced performance as shown below. Hit Ok and reboot 16. Speed up wireless Wan connections In Windows Vista the networking components were designed to be much more intelligent and automatically adjust the network settings to optimize the connection speed. This is a great new feature. Your network components basically tweak themselves for optimal performance. In most situations, these components automatically adjust perfectly for best performance. However, with wireless WAN cards the detection of network conditions is flawed and can result in slower network performance. To fix this problem, Microsoft has released a hotfix for users affected by this issue. If you have a Wireless WAN device, I suggest you give this hotfix a try. 32Bit Version 64Bit Version 17. Disable superfetch for computers with less memory The Vista Superfetch feature is an interesting one. In theory, your Vista PC will 'learn' your typical activities in terms of file and application access, then preconfigure the most commonly used apps in its memory on startup, making them much faster to access. In practice, this works very well on computers with 2GB or more of memory, but leads to a lot of disk thrashing and sluggishness on systems below the magic 2GB line. If you are not happy with the startup speed of your Vista machine, why not try disabling the Superfetch feature? To stop and disable Vista Superfetch: Go to the 'start' menu and type 'services' in the search bar. Hit Enter. In the services window, scroll down until you reach the 'superfetch' service. Right click and choose 'properties.Change the 'startup type' dropdown box to 'disabled' and click the 'stop' button to stop the service. Hit 'OK' 18. Boot Vista with all available processors While it takes good advantage of today's multiple core processors when it's loaded, Vista will still use only a single processor core when the OS itself is loading. Fortunately you can override this and force Vista to take advantage of all available processors when starting up. To force Vista to use all processors during the startup process: Right click on the 'start' menu and type 'msconfig.' Hit Enter. Go to the 'boot' tab and click 'advanced options.' Place a check next to the 'number of processors:' option and change the dropdown box to reflect the number of discrete processor cores in your computer. Hit 'ok' to save. You will need to restart to take advantage of this tip, obviously. 19. Force 32-bit Windows Vista to use all your memory by enabling PAE The 32-bit versions of Windows Vista will only recognize a maximum of a little more than 3GB of memory if you have 4GB of RAM physically installed. It is possible, however to gain access to the rest of your 4GB of memory by enabling Page Address Extension (PAE) mode within Vista. This feature works with 64-bit Intel and AMD processors to add an extra memory address space over and above what is usually available to the operating system. This will not allow enough headroom to access much more than 4GB of physical memory, so you'll have to move to Vista 64 or Linux to go further, but for users who have 4GB and would like it all to be used by Vista, this tip is worth a try. One caveat; the extra memory addresses added by PAE require some extra work by Vista in order to use them, so you need to balance the benefit of the extra memory compared to this extra overhead. When it comes to apps that are not really memory hungry, enabling PAE may only slow your computer down. Still, it's easy to enable and easy to remove again, so why not try? To enable PAE mode in Windows Vista: Open an administrative command prompt. Type the following: 'bcdedit /set pae forceenable'. Restart the computer. Vista should now see your full 4GB of memory. If you find performance has not improved the way you would like, you can disable PAE again by opening the administrative command prompt and typing 'BCDedit /set PAE forcedisable' followed by a restart. 20. Move the Vista paging file for better performance The page file is an area of hard disk space reserved by Windows for use as additional memory. By default, Windows manages and resizes this file dynamically to suit its needs. Vista does a very good job of optimizing the page file on its own, but there is one tweak you may be able to make which will considerably increase its performance. If you have more than one physical hard disk drive installed in your computer, you can move the page file onto the physical drive that does NOT have Windows Vista installed on it. Since most page file hits are related to Windows system operations, this will considerably reduce disk access on your OS drive, speeding everything up. To move the Windows Vista Page file: Click on the 'start' menu and right click on 'computer'. Choose 'properties'. In the left-hand pane, choose 'advanced system settings'. Click the 'advanced' tab, then under the 'performance' heading choose 'settings...' Choose the 'advanced' tab again, then under the 'virtual memory' heading click 'change...' Uncheck the 'automatically manage paging file size for all drives' checkbox. In the window that shows the list of partitions (C:, D:, etc.) choose a partition that resides on the physical hard drive that does not have Windows installed and highlight it. Select the 'system managed size' option then click the 'set' button. This will create a paging file on the hard disk in question. You will notice that the 'paging file size' for the highlighted drive now reads 'system managed' Now highlight your C: partition (assuming that this is where Windows Vista is installed). Select the 'no paging file' option and click 'set'. Your paging file has now been offloaded. 21. Enable Windows classic desktop If you just can't get used to the look of the Vista interface, or you are running under 1GB of memory and you need to speed up the desktop, try enabling the Windows Classic interface. This is a two step process involving changing both the desktop settings and the Start menu. Note that while in XP the 'classic interface' was that of Windows 2000, in Windows Vista it is the XP interface that is brought up when you make this change. To revert to the Windows classic interface: Right click on the 'start' menu and click 'properties'. Select the 'classic start menu' option and click 'ok'. Right click on an empty area of the desktop and choose 'personalize.' Select the 'theme' option. In the 'theme' dropdown box, choose 'Windows Classic.' Click 'ok'. All the bells and whistles are now gone completely 22. Disable mandatory thumbnail previews By default, Windows Vista renders nearly every directory in thumbnails, which can be a good thing, but can also be a pain if you've got a lot of files and little memory. If you'd like to go back to the XP-centric explorer where thumbs where an option not a mandate, it's easy enough to do, fortunately. To disable automatic thumbnail previews: Go to 'start/computer.' open the 'organize' menu and choose 'folder and search options.' Choose the view tab and place a check next to the 'always show icons, never thumbnails' option at the top. Hit 'ok.' 23. Enable more simultaneous downloads in Internet Explorer 7 As was the case with Windows XP, the version of Internet Explorer bundled with Windows Vista is limited to just two simultaneous connections to the same Internet server. This is generally fine, but it can mean that large complicated websites can take longer to open than they should, and it also means that you cannot download more than two files simultaneously from the same location. Fortunately this is easy enough to change. To increase the number of simultaneous downloads in IE 7: Open Regedit and navigate to 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings' Create a new Dword value called 'MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server' and give it a decimal value between 3 and 5. Create another new Dword called 'MaxConnectionsPerServer' and give it an identical decimal value. Close Regedit and restart IE to take better advantage of your bandwidth. 24. Disable background features while gaming If you want to try and wring a little more performance out of your games in Windows Vista, try modifying their executable files to disable some background desktop features. Vista allows you to nest commands within the executable file which will turn off the Vista 3D effects like the Aero desktop when you run the game. To disable the 3D desktop while gaming: Locate the executable file for the game. The best way to do this is to go directly to the 'c:\program files' directory and find the folder for the game in question. You can also use the search function. Right click on the executable file and choose 'properties.' Click the 'compatibility' tab. Under the 'settings' heading, check 'disable visual themes'. Click 'ok' Note that this tip disables the Aero desktop only for the game you just modified. 25. Update Vista's DirectX9 files for better game compatibility One of the fixes for getting games to run in Vista that do not normally (such as FEAR and 3Dmark06 as two examples) is relatively simple. These games require the latest version of Directx 9. Vista does not actually contain a full installation of Directx 9, just some elements for compatibility purposes. So, install Directx 9. To install Directx 9c on Windows Vista: Download the latest DirectX 9 redistributable file from Here Unzip the file into a folder on your desktop or in your documents. Run the DXSETUP file. You can delete the folder after the install has finished. 26. Run DirectX 9 games in Windows XP compatibility mode Pretty much everyone has heard by now that Vista has some compatibility issues with 'old' (read 'designed for XP' applications and games, and it's true. There are a lot of programs and games that really should work on Vista but don't for one reason or another. Fortunately various patches added since the Vista release have helped the issue considerably, but many of your old games still just won't play 'out of the box' on Vista. There is a tip that can help you resolve this issue though. Try enabling the XP compatibility mode for your older games. Just as Windows XP had various compatibility modes included to mirror older OS environments, so Vista can mirror the XP environment to a degree. This is a setting that must be switched on specifically for each game individually, so let's look at how to do this: To enable XP compatibility mode for a game: Locate the executable file for the game. The best way to do this is to go directly to the c:\program files directory and find the folder for the game in question. You can also use the search function. Right click on the executable file and choose 'properties.' Click the 'compatibility' tab. Check the 'run this program in compatibility mode for...: box and ensure that the dropdown box underneath is set to 'Windows XP Service pack 2'. Click 'OK' You must do this separately for each game. 27. Poor game performance? Try DirectX 9 mode If you own some of the newer DirectX10-capable games like Bioshock or Crysis, but you are disappointed with the performance you are seeing when you run these games in their full DX10 glory, there's an option which you'll probably want to try. Navigate to the games folder ('start\games' and right click on the icon that starts your directX10 game. You should see a 'play DirectX 9' option. You may sacrifice a few of the visual bells and whistles, but your frame rates are almost guaranteed to be better 28. Shut down operating system services faster, for a faster shutdown To shorten the service shutdown grace period: Open the 'start' menu, type 'regedit' and hit Enter. Navigate to 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control' Double click the 'WaitToKillServiceTimeout' DWORD value to edit it. Give it a value between 5000 (5 seconds) and 12000 depending on how conservative you are feeling. Your computer should now shutdown faster. Right this took me 1 hour to copy paste and write to my own knowledge and of course the internet's knowledge,Do any of these at your own risk

What he said, Or just add more Ram

Will have to play against you lads sometime but we do have a player ranked in the top 250 in the rankings so it might just be him vs u lot haha.

This is only a base for you to build upon or change, it is merely an example of a gaming pc, in no way am i saying this is the "best" you can get for £750, but you will struggle to find better

Antec Three Hundred Case Gigabyte P31 S3G Intel C2D E5200 OCZ 4GB DDR2 800Mhz Gold Dual Channel Ram Samsung Spinpoint 500gb Harddrive ATi 4850 Artic Power 500W Psu Artic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro This is only a base for you to build upon or change, it is merely an example of a budget pc, in no way am i saying this is the "best" you can get for £350, but you will struggle to find better. The Cpu may seem a little weak but infact it packs a punch and can be overclocked to 3Ghz easily. And even if you dont fancy overclocking.. it will still do your pc justice. For Cheaper just get a geforce 7900GS gfx card and a diff mobo and itll come nearer to £270

Antec Nine Hundred Case. DVD Drive Gigabyte P45 DS3R Mobo Intel Core2Duo E8500 OCZ Reaper X Edition 1000Mhz 4GB PC2-8000 Artic Cooling Freezer 7 pro ATi 4870 Samsung Spinpoint F1 500GB Harddrive Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Xtreme Gamer soundcard Corsair 650W PSU This is only a base for you to build upon or change, it is merely an example of a gaming pc, in no way am i saying this is the "best" you can get for £750, but you will struggle to find better

Vista won't run smooth on anything less than 2GB , so yes it would be decent. in terms of hard drive space it's decent guess it's for music movies and so on , but for gaming well theres other alternatives. Don't buy from places like PCworld prices are distorcinate * spelling * and they tend to drop in price after 2 weeks. I shall do my best to find you a really good value laptop if you could give me a price and i'll surf around the known websites to find you the best deal. Extortionate I think you mean Us jambos find it hard to spell , we do know what were talking about tho and i can see you understood what i was trying to say.

Vista won't run smooth on anything less than 2GB , so yes it would be decent. in terms of hard drive space it's decent guess it's for music movies and so on , but for gaming well theres other alternatives. Don't buy from places like PCworld prices are distorcinate * spelling * and they tend to drop in price after 2 weeks. I shall do my best to find you a really good value laptop if you could give me a price and i'll surf around the known websites to find you the best deal.

Last time i watched lost was i think when that scottish guy done that thing underground in the island, although i'll be trying my hardest to get to my grans every sunday to keep up with the current one.

i love that quote! old teacher used to drill it into me pissed me off at time mind Was your old teacher a sellick fan or a priest?

Overrated he's not only the 2nd best centre half in scotland but he is worth more than the reported £2.5Million. 2nd best centre half in Scotland Behind David Weir

He really isn't. It's Whittaker by an absolute mile followed by Mendes. Why ? just because they have a better technique about them doesnt mean that Boyd wouldnt still bury it 9/10 times. Does that mean Bhoruc should take them for cheltic?

So your saying he wouldn't jump into centre half beside bhougherra if given the chance..... of course he would.

did u post that sitting in ur england shirt watching the cricket?? Nah i posted it after i have just come back from Ibrox watching the sons of william I don't have any children yet

Here are the download links: 1 2 3 4 I just changed the hue and saturation of them until I liked them. I know hue, Hugh Dallas? Cheers

I'm sure this scotland day must have been arranged by a SNP member.

If you have lots of tabs open , if your computer is slow, and mainly your internet connection speed. Then yes it will take lots of time for these files to load and play.

Do what exactly?

What do you mean by this? Are you wondering if amateur team's players can be sold and loaned? they can't be loaned out and they could probably be sold only if there other team releases there papers.

Overrated he's not only the 2nd best centre half in scotland but he is worth more than the reported £2.5Million.

Buy a new one. and make it UJ day next week ;0

We had Boyd for 75 mins and had no goals. I don`t think many players could score in 100% of the games they`ve played. Look at Christian Nade how good is he 2 goals in 40+ games for Hearts it says it all eh.

He always seems to love a dig at the OF. Although anybody loves a win vs the OF. but it just seems it's levein who loves to have more of a dig.

Yes i agree, there was some complaints made to GMP , about the way they handled things and being a bit heavy handed an all and that is one of the main reasons fans where fighting back. Alcohol does take it's toll