Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Boost Windows XP Performance with Flash Memory

By Darrell Hunt


You want to find out how to get from level 1-70 in World of Warcraft in a hurry right? Well, my friend. You have come to the right place.

My journey from 1-70 wasn't exactly a fast one on my Warrior due to real life circumstances. Circumstances such as working 10 hours per day, having a wife to spend time with and for the past 6 months having a new daughter. No, my play time wasn't exactly "hardcore" play time as many of you would refer to.

eBoostr (http://www.eboostr.com/) does everything that Microsoft ReadyBoost can do. It replaces relatively slow access to hard disk by fast one to flash memory, allowing you to use up to four different flash devices, and provides the same benefits of increased system performance, improved application load times and better overall responsiveness.

eBoostr is even more useful than ReadyBoost as it does not place strict performance requirements on the flash memory you use to speed up your system. While ReadyBoost requires you to use faster and more costly memory cards, eBoostr can work with just about every inexpensive flash drive on the market. Unlike ReadyBoost, eBoostr supports up to four flash devices at the same time, a real breath of fresh air after ReadyBoost which supports just one. Finally, eBoostr enhances the performance of slower PCs as well as computers with lots of RAM, while ReadyBoost mostly benefits slower PCs with a limited amount of memory.

So, I purchased the guide sometime in March. I downloaded it, read the instructions and installed the map mod that Brian Kopp includes. Brian Kopp did an excellent job looking at what Joanna did for the Horde and applied it to the Alliance races. The map mod, you ask? YES! That's right, an awesome map mod. Brian Kopp actually didn't write any map mod himself. Instead, he tells you to download and install meta map. A completely free add-on wrote for Wow. Then, with his guide he includes a database that you import into the add-on. This database is actually a list of coordinates for pretty much every, single, alliance zone in the game. Each of these coordinates corresponds with a set of coordinates in his guide. For example, Brian's guide will tell you to go to 34.67 and pick up a quest called Into the Outlands (or whatever). Then, he will tell you to go to 46.79 to complete the quest. With this information you can easily open your map, highlight the coordinates he tells you to go to and simply go there! This makes looking up quest information on the internet obsolete. You will NEVER have to look up the information again.

Pay close attention to how many PCL slots the Mother board has. The more, PLC slots the better because they fill up quickly. How is the board laid out? Check for any problems such as something blocking your long PCI slots.




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