Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
> Asus actually ships with a utility that "auto-tunes" the overclock for you. 

My graphics card had one of those. I had turned it on (or it had turned 
itself on or soemthing) and forgotten about it, and a few weeks later 
started getting crashes of the video driver about twice a week, sometimes 
including restarting the whole machine. When I realized that was turned on 
and turned it off, my machine went back to not crashing.

Just take care, because overclocking leads to unreliability. The factory 
already tested the chip and they marked it with the maximum safe speed. 
(That's how they decide if a part is a 3.3GHz part, or a 3.0, or a 2.8, etc)

> Windows 7 takes about 20 seconds from start to displaying the login prompt, 
> then only 2 seconds from there to display the desktop.  Of course, as I load 
> more crap onto the machine, that will become slower and slower.

I noticed that, but I don't know why it happens to me (on vista) since I 
pretty much turn off or defer all the services I don't need. Vista used to 
boot faster than my Linux, but now it's about 1.5 times as long.

Just as an aside, I'm amused that my flat-screen TV apparently runs Linux 
(there's instructions in google for getting a root prompt on your TV), and 
it takes about 20-25 seconds to power up to where the remote will display 
the menu, roughly the same time as the XBox.

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   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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