Little advice please

Gilval · 6 Feb 2014 at 13:56

I would always go fresh install myself, a clean start is always good and can provide a little performance boost in itself.

bulb66 · 6 Feb 2014 at 14:11

Krony said:
Keep an eye on temps then, if voltage is on auto then it will probably have increased, use realtemp or coretemp to monitor it at idle and load, as for ram as mentioned you probably will see a minimal performance increase adding another 4Gb.

I'm currently monitoring my temps with Core Temp, while playing minecraft, what temp should i be looking at? tj. Max? What's safe?

Thanks

bulb66 · 6 Feb 2014 at 14:25

Gilval said:
I would always go fresh install myself, a clean start is always good and can provide a little performance boost in itself.

What about all the windows updates, do people still use something like nlite?

Gilval · 6 Feb 2014 at 14:28

windows updates don't take too long as long as you have a reasonable internet connection. You'll probably have a couple of large rounds of updates if you have Windows 7 SP1 install media. If you only have Windows 7 media then I'd have a look into a standalone SP1 installer

bulb66 · 6 Feb 2014 at 14:49

Gilval said:
windows updates don't take too long as long as you have a reasonable internet connection. You'll probably have a couple of large rounds of updates if you have Windows 7 SP1 install media. If you only have Windows 7 media then I'd have a look into a standalone SP1 installer

You mean the SP1 download from MS? I have fibre so download speed isn't a problem. But I don't have the SP1 media.

Thanks

Gilval · 6 Feb 2014 at 15:03

Yeah if you predownload the SP1 installer it would save a little time that's all

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5842