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  2. Here's your once-and-for-all solution to a painfully slow ...

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    If your computer feels hot or its fan sounds like you live on a helipad, that means the machine is overheating. This first causes your computer to slow down, and can eventually lead to long-term ...

  3. Here's your once-and-for-all fix for a slow computer - AOL

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    If your computer feels like it’s going to burst into flames, or its fan makes it sound like you live on a helipad, that means the machine is overheating. This first causes your computer to slow ...

  4. Overclocking - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of overclocking is to increase the operating speed of a given component. [3] Normally, on modern systems, the target of overclocking is increasing the performance of a major chip or subsystem, such as the main processor or graphics controller, but other components, such as system memory or system buses (generally on the motherboard), are commonly involved.

  5. Thermal design power - Wikipedia

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    The selection of a heat sink may end up with overheating (and CPU reduced performances) or overcooling (oversized, expensive heat sink), depending if one chooses a too high or a too low case temperature Tc (respectively with a too low or too high ambient temperature Ta), or if the CPU operates with different computational loads.

  6. Processor power dissipation - Wikipedia

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    More recently, in order to manage CPU power dissipation, processor makers favor multi-core chip designs, thus software needs to be written in a multi-threaded or multi-process manner to take full advantage of such hardware. Many multi-threaded development paradigms introduce overhead, and will not see a linear increase in speed when compared to ...

  7. What is overclocking? How to boost your PC's speed and ... - AOL

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    Overclocking is the process of forcing your computer to run faster than it's intended to go, which can help you run advanced programs on an older PC. Skip to main content ...

  8. Computer cooling - Wikipedia

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    A finned air cooled heatsink with fan clipped onto a CPU, with a smaller passive heatsink without fan in the background A 3-fan heatsink mounted on a video card to maximize cooling efficiency of the GPU and surrounding components Commodore 128DCR computer's switch-mode power supply, with a user-installed 60 mm cooling fan.

  9. Download, install, or uninstall AOL Desktop Gold

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    Learn how to download and install or uninstall the Desktop Gold software and if your computer meets the system requirements.