Recent content by IBM1620

Do you have indexing enabled on your whole hard drive? If, so, any little change happening in the background (e.g. qtorrent or utorrent uploading a segment) can prompt the indexer to update its database, which can take a lot of cycles. Disabling indexing solved the slowdown problem for me on an...

My display switches at random between 2 brightness or color temperature settings. This has happened since I recently bought a new Samsung monitor (LC22F390FHNXZA | Serial: 0PKGHTNHA00023D) so it is the likeliest candidate. OTOH my graphics card (ATI Radeon HD 3200 on motherboard) is pretty old...

Thanks = I'll see if I can find a second-hand pci GPU that will fit. No point trying to upgrade much, pretty old MB and I don't do high-perf gaming. I don't understand the Windows Experience rating for the current GPU: - Desktop performance for Windows Aero 3.9 - 3D business & Gaming...

I currently have an older ASUS motherboard (M3A78-EM) with an on-board AGP graphics card Radeon HD3200. The Windows Experience rating shows 3.9 for Windows Aero, although the Business Gaming figure is 5.3; all the other ratings are 5-6. Should I be trying to replace this GPU? I do not do any...