The basics of CPU overclocking

Pushing your processor to new heights can be extremely rewarding—if all goes right. Take the time to understand the concepts of overclocking and the factors that can affect success.


DETERMINING A CPU’S SPEED

There’s simple math that determines the clock speed of any CPU. Each CPU has a fi xed internal number called the clock multiplier. That number multiplied by the reference clock of the front-side bus determines the stated clock speed of the processor. For example, an Intel 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad Q6700 has a clock multiplier of 10. The stock system bus speed for this processor is 1,066MHz. But wait, 1,066MHz multiplied by 10 equals 10GHz. What gives? Intel’s front-side bus is quad-pumped, so its actual reference clock is 266MHz (1,066MHz divided by four). That makes the clock speed of a Core 2 Quad Q6700 10 times 266MHz for 2,660MHz, or 2.66GHz. This same math applies to AMD’s Athlon 64 CPUs, although, technically, they have no front-side bus; instead, a HyperTransport link connects the CPU to the chipset. A 2.6GHz Athlon 64 X2 5000+, for example, operates on a 13x multiplier using a 200MHz link—the actual HyperTransport link connection runs at 1GHz, as it operates on a 5x multiplier. You can overclock both Intel and AMD CPUs by increasing the multiplier setting, increasing the “front-side bus,” or both. By using a combination of a multiplier and FSB overclock, you may achieve higher speeds with more stability. Depending on your situation, a combination of both may give you the best overclock, as your motherboard may simply not be up to running at excessively high speeds.

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Academy du Dernier Cri

Fashion is one of the fields, just like computers, that inherit a rapid and gargantuan change in the matter of time. This is one such field which will allure people of interests in fashion and latest trends in copiously. When it comes to fashion, the only city that comes to anyone of our minds is ‘Paris’. In the field of fashion, surrogate to “Paris’ is the world’s No.1 city ‘New York’. If ‘Paris’ is known for its latest trends, then ‘New York’ is known for the richness, luxury, august and glorious way of representing fashion in a new dimension.
If you are looking in for fashion schools New York, then you are going in for a wise choice, as this is the only place where your copious belief and brainstorm for fashion gets ameliorated. If you want to search for New York fashion schools, then you can browse through fashion-school-finder.com and avail number of opportunities. The easiness and hassle-free interface and the home page designing allow you to get easy with your searching process. The only way that your search for fashion school in New York gets a solution is to browse through all the available colleges in New York, thereby selecting a best among all those schools will provide you an opportunity to flourish in your fashion world.

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

That tremor you feel is the revival of a franchise

When we think of Quake games, we think of fast-paced deathmatches in their purest no-nonsense form. In Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, the latest iteration of the shooter franchise, that visceral run-and-gun experience still makes up the foundation of gameplay, but the integration of deep teamplay tactics and mission objectives makes this a whole new multiplayer animal. The meld of cooperative squadplay and frenzied firefighting makes for compelling matches, but both deathmatch and tactical purists may find themselves in slightly unfamiliar territory. We fought for possession of Earth across 12 battlegrounds as both GDF and Strogg forces, each round structured in an assault and defend format. Up to 32 players fill the battlefield, contributing to the fight in one of five roles: Nothing special here—you choose between the typical assault, medic, engineer, field ops, and covert ops classes. What’s unique is the asymmetry that Quake Wars applies to the two sides. While the GDF rely on conventional bullets and ammo, the Strogg use an energy source called Stroyent that doubles as ammo and health. Strogg can also use the bodies of dead GDF soldiers as remote spawn points. With the addition of other weapon and special-ability differences, we had to adapt our tactics to accommodate the advantages of each side. Helpful tooltips give each player sub-missions and goals unique to their classes, leading Aggressors to plant explosive charges at vault doors and Infiltrators to hack computer systems. Quake Wars’s map objectives are some of the most diverse we’ve seen in a multiplayer game. On the Slipgate map, the GDF team has to commandeer a forward control point, hack the eponymous gateway, escort a Mobile Command Post through the wormhole, and finally demolish a Strogg Nexus tower. Awesome objectives aside, we weren’t impressed with the graphics of the “Megatextured” game, which suffered from overused browns and last-gen lighting. But once we got past the superficial deficiencies, we were in for a fresh multiplayer experience worthy of the Quake name.

For: Outstanding Gameplay, Strong competitive multiplayer.
Against: Some key binding issues, no voice chat.

Go fiesta!

Get up early, plug in the ear phones, reach the office, admit that the boss is right, do the work, take a coffee, return back home.
The next day, get up early, plug in the same damn ear phones, reach the office, once again admit that the boss is right, do the work, take a coffee, and return back home.
And the next day, it goes on . . .
Hey! Hang on there for a sec, don’t you guys have a break? I do strongly feel that you are given with some vacation in the firm you are working for. Don’t you wanna utilize this vacation in a sumptuous manner?
Now that you’ve heard from me, and ready to go in for a vacation, you might not have a clue on how and from where to start?
When you talk about vacations, the first thing that comes to your mind would be the “Travel”. This option is left for you. You can choose any travel method like, cruise, by air or the asperous ‘n’ astringent Road Trip.
Okay, you’ve decided to go in by any of the above method. But how to get into this thing, I mean how are you gonna book the air tickets or cruises. Ya, what you’ve heard is true. Everything can be done online. But where in online? I tell you, picking up a perfect site that offers all these Hotel Reservations, Hotel Discounts etc. would be the toughest thing you could’ve ever done. Even if you find, browsing through the site and making a reservation to your favorite Resorts and being economic at the same time is really a tedious job.
A one stop solution for your vacation is http://www.hotelreservations.com/. Here you could make your vacation sublimed one, a vacation that could be remembered for years.
They offer not only reservations for the Hotels and Resorts, but also for the Motels, Air tickets, Cruises, Cars for Road Trip etc. This indeed is a one stop solution for your vacation this time.

Bon Voyage !

Get rid of spyware

AdAware SE personal 1.06

These days just by protecting your computer from viruses and hackers is not enough. There are programs that stay hidden in your computer and manage to create havoc such as making the performance of your computer slow like an old sail, unwanted pop-up windows popping up all over the place. To resolve this issue we have one of the most popular Anti-Spyware programs -- AdAware SE Personal 1.06.
The speed of scanning performed by the application is quite fast. In case it finds any spyware it quarantines it. Also you can specify an ignore list if there are certain applications you prefer not to be detected as a spyware by AdAware SE Personal.
AdAware SE Personal does not support real time scanning. In order to get this feature you will need to upgrade to other shareware versions of AdAware SE.

For: Low system resource utilization, high speed scan.
Against: No real time scanning in the free version.

Descry the new dimension

From my diminutive experience of computing world, I heard many of them construing about their visual impact after being hooked to long hours of computing. This, from now, need not be considered as a problem, as I have figured out one good solution. It’s one Great Discovery: Zenni Optical.
Of course, there are many who provide you some good quality opticals, but this might be the cheapest one you might get. It's really a bang for the buck! It’s the Best Thing Found: Zenni Optical. They provide some decent eyeglasses with some really cool designs that are definitely a personal fashion and style statement. The basic model is the simple 'n sweet Zenni Optical $8 Rx Glasses.

A sample of how the eyeglasses may look:





For: Cool designs, Low price.
Against: None.

Neat and Tidy

Vopt 8.13

Creating and deleting of data on a hard disk is a constant process practiced by most of us. This leads to fragmentation of data and ultimately the performance of the PC starts to deteriorate. The solution to this issue is to use the old and clumsy Windows defragmentation tool which hardly is able to deliver a good result. So you tend to turn to a third party solution. Hence I bring you one such application which is quite an effective defragmentation tool. Vopt 8.13 is a disk utility that performs defragmentation of your hard disk with utmost perfection. It features both scheduled as well as batch defragmentation along with features like deleting of junk files, clearing Internet cache, cookies, temporary files etc.

The installation of the application is a cakewalk, once you are done with it you are greeted by a window displaying the fragmented data of the C drive. There is a status option where you can get a list of files that are fragmented; also you can view the temporary files and so on. The performance of Vopt was quite good and with its features it offers it is a cool tool to own, but it could have faired better with a lesser price tag.

For: Excellent feature.
Against: A bit too costly.

A New Dimension - PPP

Having a blog? Fed up of trying to earn money through your blog and ended up in vain? Then this is the one stop solution for all your problems. PPP (pay per post) has been there nearly for two years providing bloggers an opportunity to earn money for what they do. Isn’t this interesting? You need not spoof or bluff about anything. You just have to give your honest opinion and write about what you think of that particular sponsor. That’s it and you will get paid for it. For newbie (not familiar with blogging), what you have to do is
Create an account at blogspot.com and choose an appealing blog URL (so that your blog generates more and more visitors and gets higher PR) and a decent blog title.
Maintain your blog by posting one post per day.
Submit your blogs at different blog directories, so that it becomes famous.
After a month, visit payperpost.com and create an account and submit your blog.
Once they review your blog and it has been approved, you can make money
Isn’t this simple? So what are waiting for? Just go ahead and start with a good blog. And for those bloggers who were searching for a way to make money, this is the solution you were looking for. Go and get it!

Happy blogging!

Painting Redefined

Corel Painter X

Our imagination is not limited by any protocol or law of nature; it all begins with visualizing ideas, then manifesting them through images; breathing life into your ideas, with the human imagination knowing no bounds, you require an application of similar caliber to do justice to your design brainwaves. In this digital age you do not require a paper and pen to sketch your ideas-- a combination of a PC and the right application can work miracles. One such application is Corel Painter X that is capable of much more than just painting; it's a bridge between your imagination and perceiving it in reality. It is also a multi-platform application available for PC as well as Mac users.
The version 10 or X (as Corel prefers to name it) is the latest avatar of Corel Painter. It is one-of-a-kind application that provides stationery to create masterpieces. This version like its predecessors (IX.5) uses an array of virtual brushes for drawing and painting along with the familiar color swatches. Another new feature is the Divine Proportion -- at first it sounds rather abstract, but it does lend an ergonomic sense of balance to paintings. Corel Painter X definitely lives up to its name and whether you're a graphics artist or not, it will take your breath away.

For: Divine proportion tool is splendid.
Against: None.

Launcher

Launchy 1.2.5

There are very few applications that are elegant to look at as well as proficient to work with, at the same time. Launchy is one of them. Launchy as the name suggests basically launches just about anything.
It is like using Windows Vista’s start menu with a Mac-like interface of its own. The application is great for launching not only programs but bookmarks too. As soon as you start to type, programs/bookmarks start to type; programs/bookmarks start to show up n the list instantly.
As an added bonus, you can even use Launchy as a calculator. Launchy is extremely feature-rich. It lets you change your hot keys, set directories that you can launch stuff from and you can even use it for music and video. If an application doesn’t show up, simply hit the ‘Rebuild Index’ button.
Being Open source, you can apply a skin on it by downloading additional ones at www.launchyskins.com and also install plugins that add additional functionality.
With Launchy installed on your system, you can definitely say good bye to the tedious start menu.

For: Ease of use, launches anything.
Against: No way to remove IE favorites.

Right Hand

MMM

Probably inspired by C&C Music Factory’s song – “Things that may make you go hmm”, MMM lets you choose which program appears in your Windows right-click menu. With a growing list of application that one uses, almost every application adds on to the context menu. This results in a long list that pops-up which takes longer to load which has a lot of stuff you don’t even need.
The freeware application lets you configure any right-click menu no matter which file you right-click on. This is great as many files have specific tasks added there for a particular file type. How it does this is confusing at first. You need to right-click a file and then immediately launch MMM. This will show you a list of commands that can be run, which you can drag under ‘Hidden items’ or ‘Rarely used’. The latter option will give you an additional option by the same name in right-click menu.
The program runs in the memory but barely takes any resources. It needs just about 508 kb. The paid counterpart allows more functionality and also shows a colored bar in the right-click menu.

For: Customize your right-click context menu, easy to use.
Against: Displays a colored bar in the context menu.

Caution Ware

System Safety Monitor 2.0.8.583

System Safety Monitor (SSM) is ‘Host based Intrusion Prevention System,’ software. This kind of software protects a system against malware and hacker attacks. SSM puts a lot of onus on user decision and this is where the trouble begins. SSM basically asks you about every little program that is trying to launch either by you or automated by the system. Normally this wouldn’t be a problem, but considering that every .EXE file has several dependencies such as DLLs and other supporting files, SSM asks you about every one of these files. So that means every new program launched has minimum 3 clicks more to it. This gets tiring after a while which makes the user instantly stop caring about program alerts and blindly clicking to start a program.
SSM of course is not at fault here, but it does nothing to ease the pain either. It takes no onus to give default application rules. SSM also does not help the user in anyway by advising which application should or should not be allowed which adds to the user’s woes.

For: Keeps your system extremely secure, easy to use.
Against: Extremely annoying due to constant pop-ups.