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CPU Booster
Name: Eric Morris Date: February 2, 1999 at 07:30:02 Pacific
Comment:
I just wanna know if CPU booster can be harmfull for my computer. How does it work? Is it just like overclocking or does it work a different way?
Name: Bryan Moore Date: March 6, 1999 at 13:29:31 Pacific
Reply:
When you over clock your CPU all it is doing is showing you have a bigger CPU. It dosent make it run any faster...so peope like to see it say 333 vs. 300..wow...who cares...its still a slow ass 300...lol but getting a booster, thats not gonna do anything...just got get another CPU upgrade!!! You will apreciate the differnece you have vs. the other way...
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Response Number 2
Name: Steven Morrison Date: March 24, 1999 at 16:47:08 Pacific
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I had recently Upgraded my BIOS with the "CPU BOOSTER" and have several problems! It sure did the trick for awile and i did see the diffrence. But I had sevrel problems with my VXD drivers. And soon enough my system crashed!
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Response Number 3
Name: Kennet Nielsen Date: April 15, 1999 at 11:20:55 Pacific
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I'm a little unsure if it's a program or a overclock question that you have posted, but I have a comment about both. I've just overclocked my CPU from 200 MHz to 225 MHz, AND EVEN WITH SUCH A SMALL OVERCLOCK I CAN SEE A GOOD SPEED INCREASE IN MY GAMES. But the trick with the CPU Booster program will not work, but will not harm either. Most of the programs made to boost is mostly fakes, by my experience. And at last, Overclocking is a physical change whitch in some rare cases will damage your CPU ( Read a lot about test results and information before you start overclock ). By program, if it works, I think there is a kind data structure which will change the way you data runs, which can't hurt your hardware or your harddrive.
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Response Number 4
Name: Elio Teixeira Date: April 29, 1999 at 12:18:11 Pacific
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El Problema de overclocking es el calor estamos claros. Pero es la mejor forma de sacarle lo que nos costo ese procesador. No que acorta la vida del procesador, eso dicen. Bueno quiero que alguien me diga cual es la vida del procesador, cuanto dura un procesador?. Esta pregunta tiene dos caras uno la vida física del procesador que sirva por lo menos 6 años, Ok. Pero otra cosa es la vida Virtual del procesador, hasta cuando podremos utilizar este procesador, dentro de 6 años existiera programas para este computador. Algo que yo apoyo es el OVERCLOCK, cuanto te costo tu procesador, 200$ y ahora cuanto cuesta 60$, no le hubieras sacado mas provecho a tu dinero aplicando el overclocking. Si se te daña compras uno mejor y estarás siempre feliz.
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Response Number 5
Name: Chaz Macc Date: August 15, 1999 at 15:46:20 Pacific
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Where can i get a copy of cpu booster i have been looking and for some reason it's been taken off my search sites. i have used it before and worked fine for me.
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Response Number 6
Name: Friskyferret Date: November 21, 1999 at 14:55:17 Pacific
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Dr. Swhinn had something when he created CPU Booster. It currently works on all systems I have. My 386 SX/20 reads at 38.6 on my benchmark. My 486 SX/33 does 50.9 , my 486 DX2/66 climbs to 103.4, and my P166 all jump to 220-250. I noticed that it does heat up more. I gathered about 20 more degrees than normal. IT DOES HEAT UP!. But I have those little fans attached to a port cover and that solves that. Needless to say that other programs not just the CPU Booster helps the cause. I found Waterfall offsets the heat issue on idle. Anyway it works fine here.
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Response Number 7
Name: uu Date: November 21, 1999 at 15:59:23 Pacific
Reply:
booster
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Response Number 8
Name: Daniel Stinson Date: December 18, 1999 at 18:23:09 Pacific
Reply:
Obviously the first response, from bryan moore, shows that he has no clue what the hell he is talking about. Overclocking is not what he said. It actually changes the cpu speed, not just what it says, and is actually fairly easy to do if you know how. Look it up, it is worthwhile. Note: you must have a motherboard that will allow it, and some cpu's are not overclocking friendly. One of the best ones is the celeron 366. You can make it go up to 550 mhz and then some (not all will let you go that high though), but you MUST keep it cool, or it will immediately overheat and crash.
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Response Number 9
Name: GiZmO Date: December 29, 1999 at 13:52:55 Pacific
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CPU Booster is indeed a FAKE program! If your are so inclined open all of the files included with the program with a text or hex editor you shoud see an interesting message. Have fun! :)
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Response Number 10
Name: Tim Date: December 30, 1999 at 21:06:11 Pacific
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GiZmO is right!!! Open up "cpu_inst.exe" with a text or hex editor and you will see the message.
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Response Number 11
Name: Nikolai Date: January 3, 2000 at 21:14:26 Pacific
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Tim and GiZmO are right! In addition I check operating rate of my computer with/without CPU Booster. It is exactly same! For this test I used simple software that calculate a=b/c+d/e many times. You can check it yourself. My software address for downloading is http://www/geocities.com/volobouev/Temporar/CPU_Test.zip
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Response Number 12
Name: Ed Rasermon Date: January 5, 2000 at 17:18:31 Pacific
Reply:
CPU Booster will not operate on Pentium II or Pentium III Processors. The program is not a prank. It was written in 1994 and there is no "message" in the arrangement of the compiled program. The program wirks only with Intel processors. If it does not work with your processor you may have a different processor than you think you do. You also have to load the booster.com file every time you boot up by putting it in your autoexec.bat file or win.ini "run=drive\folder\booster.com" or a shortcut in your startup folder. The booster.com addition must also contain the folder name of where the file is on your hard drive. eg. C:\main\booster.com The program may not work properly on MMX processors and before you install it you should have a backup floppy with your current system bios on it.
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Response Number 13
Name: Crazy Man! Date: January 11, 2000 at 17:20:21 Pacific
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You're all insane!
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Response Number 14
Name: itnro39 Date: January 16, 2000 at 14:23:10 Pacific
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the cpu booster is fake, i found out... when i waz trying to change some settings from this program and the program says fools foolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfoolsfools
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Response Number 15
Name: shah Date: January 29, 2000 at 16:39:26 Pacific
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the last time i used, it made my computer crash into hell. i got a black out (no electricity) while using my computer. later, in the morning, when i turned on my pc, i got some kind of strange message from the cpu booster. then when i check, my whole folder in my hard disk got duplicated within the cpu booster folder. after tried so to uninstall it, everything i had on my pc where deleted my the cpu booster..... i hate that program very much.
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Response Number 16
Name: cooldude Date: August 4, 2000 at 19:29:47 Pacific
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What a bunch of nerds.
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Response Number 17
Name: Dr Schwinn Date: September 14, 2000 at 07:25:43 Pacific
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Oh pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez.... text DIRECTLY from cpu_inst.exe:
SuCkEr sUcKeR SuCkEr sUcKeR SuCkEr sUcKeR SuCkEr0CPU BOOSTER is a fake program written by a crazy0son of a bitch just to piss you off and give you0false hope. Almost all programs CANNOT make your.computer faster unless it is some sort of disk0caching program, which is basically SMARTDRV.EXE0(But this only increases HD speed not CPU speed)0Come on you didn't ACTUALLY believe this program would do anything... Did you? =)/There was NO Assembly programming involved, and/Dr. Schwinn is just a name I made up so that no,one would know who I was, not so I don't get-complaints... Dumb excuse anyway, I'm not too-creative. Enjoy fooling your friends! -Dr. S..P.S. There are no virii in this program! Nada!ESCExitENTERContinue for kicksExited CPU BOOSTER ;)%Please don't tell anyone it's a fake!(Just use this program to fool others! =)
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Response Number 18
Name: Anonymous Date: December 10, 2000 at 09:21:21 Pacific
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The CPU Booster is bunch of s---! You people are so freaking gullible to believe that it actually works. Like in the message above, the author put a note in the EXE file which clearly told how fake it was. It says that it loads new processor information into NVRAM or EPROM. For one thing, most computers don't have much memory of that form, and the processor is entirely ROM. You can't change it from software. The only thing you can do is overclock it sometimes. Go into MS-DOS edit, and load the EXE file in binary mode. You'll see that note the author wrote. When we've got more evidence to prove that it doesn't work than to prove that it does, why do you still believe that it does work, despite that the author explained that it was a bunch of crap himself?
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