Sent you a PM Gazza1, not sure if the info will help any.
Are you teaching him some secret techniques? Why don't you post the info here, so we can all learn something.
lol no, I'm new to mining as well. From my experience, adjusting the mining programs settings allowed me to watched movies, surf and use other programs with minimal lag but have an increased hash rate.
This is GUIMiner Alpha on Windows 7 64bit
7850(low)
Thread concurrency: 8192
Vectors: 1
GPU threads: 2
Worksize: 256
Intensity: 13
345 Kh/s
My new settings
Thread concurrency: 6720
Vectors: 1
GPU threads: 2
Worksize: 256
Intensity: 12
369-372 Kh/s
I'm a hobby miner, so my work PC is also my mining PC. I doubt this is anything new for you guys. Just a suggestion for Gazza1.