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      09-03-2009
Many of you may have heard of Open Office, and I bet all of you will have heard of Microsoft Office. But which would you chose? I use OOo, a) because it has a free alternative to publisher, and b) because I can't be bothered to re-install Mic. Office!

Or, would you edge towards Google and it's cloud computing world, and use Google Docs?
 
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      09-03-2009
Hi Sycthus I like OO M8 i do have MSO 2007 but my wife now uses it so i use OO, it is possible to speed up OO if you open Writer and go Tools > Options > Memory you will see the default is 20MB now if you have the RAM set it to 30MB or more and you will find OO opens fast !.

 
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      09-03-2009
Wow, thank you! I ramped it straight up to 40 meg, start up timed massively improved!

Any other tricks like this you know to speed up programs?
 
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      09-03-2009
There are a few tweaks for different apps, i do have some on a flash drive i will look up, i was more in to overclocking until i met the wife ... cant blow £s on replacing burnt out CPUs and GPUs nowadays .
 
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      09-04-2009
Apparently this GPU is pretty safe to overclock if you use the program, I am considering getting it, but I don't know if I'll risk the overclocking!

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/p.../NOV-4890.html

edit: forgot to put in the URL!

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      09-04-2009
Hi Sycthus, there is always some risk in Overclocking and one thing to keep in mind is (don't overclock what you cant afford to replace) also OCing will void the manufactures guarantee, but saying that OCing is great fun and can be quite addictive. If you decide to OC do research all you can as OCing is not just a case of pushing up FSB an OCd system is in a fine balance discovered via Benchmarking and includes CPU, GPU, MOBO and RAM, CPUZ is a handy tool and you will find more Here, i think the best advice i can give is (study and understand exactly what you maybe about to undertake) oh and good luck if you decide to try out Overclocking ... and do look at your cooling, OCing generates heat

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Okay, you've lost me a bit there: MOBO, RAM and CPUZ? How can you overclock RAM, and what's a MOBO and a CPUZ? And what's FSB? Benchmark seems to be a tool to see what your overclocking limit is, right?

Finally, what's the best way to keep you computer cool?
 
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      09-04-2009
As we are way of topic for this thread i think maybe a new thread is called for .. but in brief MOBO = Motherboard, CPUZ > Here and to overclock RAM, you just enter the BIOS and attempt to run the RAM at a higher speed than it is rated at, feel free to PM me or use IM happy to answer any questions you may have M8

Oh and a P4 CPU was clocked at over 5.8GHz cooled with Liquid Nitrogen.

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Haha, nice!
 
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      09-06-2009
I moved to OO quite a while ago. I just got so tired of MS Updates every other day to Patch yet another issue with MS Word and find OO faster, has more features I use and the best of all, free.
 
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