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I believe nTune was locking up my PC shortly after booting up, CPU usage would skyrocket then everything would lock up and I'd have to hard boot to restart things.

So I uninstalled it, and so far everything as been good (no crashes).

Anyone else know of that problem?

Thx for any info.

I'm using an XFX GeForce 8600GT XXX card also and it doesnt seem to make much noise as far as I can tell.

I dumped it and use Comodo and (knock wood) no problems with it yet.

Thanks very much for replying. K, I'll stick with XP then, I don't play any cutting edge stuff. Mostly Anarchy Online sometimes and alot of Secondlife (no matter what machine you have its hard there).

Thanks again

I did the Coarse Tune (20 min) with these results:

FSB (CPU Bus) original: 200Mhz current: 218Mhz +9% change

AGP/PCI-E Bus original: 2500Mhz current: 2850Mhz +14% change

so that tweaked my system some and will help performance?

Thx for any insight

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I just have the basic Qwest internet service, I wasn't doing anything else. I didn't understand your answer tho, is 1339kbps very slow? Yours 299X? can you tell me what 299X means?

When I ran SpeedTest I got these results:

1339 kbps download

728 kbs upload

My internet provider is Qwest.

I'm new to this, so I don't know if the results are good or bad, any thoughts?

Thx

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