Miscellaneous Tips and Help

This section is devoted to the many different tips and help suggestion found around the internet as it applies to general computing.  Some items may relate closely to the NF7/AN7 motherboards but are intended to enhance the overall computing experience.  If you have something to share, please e-mail your Tips and Help topics to me!

NF7-S Onboard NIC Tweak (written by Digital from winoscentral.com)  - What prompted me to dig around for this little trick/setting was the difference in LAN/Internet speed I noticed between my “everyday” Windows XP box and my less powerful “screw around and reformat” Windows 2003 Server box. The Server box just seems to render pages faster under IE and Firebird where as my XP system seems to pause a bit and then render the page. Now don’t get me wrong, my XP box is plenty fast but I wanted the same speed I was seeing on my server box on my XP box so, I started digging around to see what I could do.

To cut a long story short, I tried my “super-duper speed up internet tweaks” and that helped a bit but what really did it was a setting on the NIC itself. Those who are running an nVidia NFORCE NIC should check this out and see what it does for you.

- Right click “My Computer” and choose Manage
- Select Device Manager
- Hit the (+) sign next to Network Adapters
- Right click over NVIDIA nForce MCP Controller and choose Properties
- Under the Advanced Tab choose Optimize For, and to the Right hit the down arrow and choose Throughput.
- Reboot and see if you also notice a nice speed increase in your connection speed.

Perfect Audio (submitted by jkesa} - OtsDj Software has an excellent tutorial on configuring your PC for optimal audio performance.  Click HERE to read the article.

Diagnosing Bad Memory (provided by pcstats) - PCStats.com has an excellent guide for testing you memory to make sure its up to snuff.  Click HERE to read the article.

The Definitive BIOS optimization Guide (provided by rojakpot.com) - Rojakpot.com has a great bios optimization guide available for you to browse through.  Everything you ever wanted to know about any BIOS setting is pretty much covered.  Click HERE to check it out.