It's true.* I abuse my computer.* I... also never turn it off for weeks or months at a time... AND it's a laptop... plugged in always,* I keep it on a back porch.* It can't get rained on... but... well... it gets hot and cold and humid - not much protection from the weather at all. But to be fair, I stay with it as much as possible and I give PLENTY of encouragement.* I never get mad.* I'm very nice and I think it is happy to work hard and feel productive. Oh, I don't know it's name.* I... never... gave it a name... I don't even know its gender...* wow... I just never thought to check... Pardon me, I know perfectly well what overclocking is.* I have destroyed a perfectly expensive PC overclocking once.* I do not wish to repeat that. :P is quite correct, outside of the overclocking comment :P - I save my resources for processing rather than appearance.* I use minimal resources for appearance, which gives every single computer I run the look of Windows95. It's not that I like the look of Win95, I just don't care what it looks like :P There's "show", and then there's "go" - and I like my computer to go as fast as it possibly can, as efficiently as they can. The java processes?* I was rendering 10 Minecraft Worlds simultaneously, converting 96GB total of Region files into 42,000+ 512x512 PNG files, thank you very much :P* Took 24 hrs total but it did it.* Now I have to assemble the pieces. and the ancient Snipping Tool is unbelievably useful, low resource and free.* You should see what I use for my main video/audio capturer: [1]https://github.com/rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-windows-free I also type in Notepad or Notepad++, use ancient Office 2000 apps for raw speed [only using newer versions when I have to] - Libreoffice/Openoffice handles the newer stuff - for images, I use Paint.NET - the closest thing to Windows Paint I could find - for most things - ImageJ/Fuji for gigantic images (its a biomedical tool for brain slices and chemistry but it's universal) - and ImageMagick is handy for short projects - and my main video editor? Windows Movie Maker..* Yes.* WMM, converting to MP4 with Handbrake.* So primitive. [I have ffmpeg, VLC for fancier stuff]* Audacity is my sound editor, although I really love the new thing that Sony I think came out with [or maybe adobe] that auto selects harmonics but I'm too cheap. In short, if you want me to turn ANYTHING into ANYTHING, I can do it. === yeah overclocking.* I've made computers smoke before. Overclocking isn't hard to do; and usually you get a tiny bit of wiggle room to do a little overclocking.* [they purposely underpower computers a little - it makes them tougher] - but if you decide to go too far... well... you'd better have LOTS of extra fans in the computer and an extra-beefy power supply. Consider water-cooling too.* I made a water-cooling setup once.* Copper pipe running around the CPU and video card with a little fishing pond pump in a bowl of water with ice and water in it. [I'm not really a "laptop guy" - I'm a BIG OPEN TOWER kinda guy.* But I like to force myself to "work with less" and "make it do more".* It forces me to get creative.* It also keeps the screwdriver out of my hand :P ] === From an ancient Resume: :P* [the years don't matter - computers are still put together exactly the same way :P Boring really.* I keep waiting for a change] :) === D&F discount computers entry here === My boss, his wife + 3 kids (and dog) and the technicians who worked under me made a mess :P Doritos and Mountain Dew everywhere. My boss ended up getting sued by Microsoft for installing illegal copies of Windows on computers, but thankfully I was gone by then.* Before he ran the store, he helped launch a satellite into space in his previous job, which was pretty cool. References Visible links 1. https://github.com/rdp/screen-capture-recorder-to-video-windows-free