Re: The downfall of Firefox

Posted on 2013-04-11, 00:12

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... Booted in XP 32, so I only have 3 GB usable RAM ... If I understand right you have the typical problem of 4GB of physical RAM installed, but a 32-bit Windows that ignores and wastes ~0.75GB of memory. That's the ideal scenario for nesting a ramdisk in 'The Forbidden Zone', to use the RAM that …

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Re: The downfall of Firefox

Posted on 2013-04-10, 16:16

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The main drawback of using RAM disks is that information is lost after powering down. Any decent ramdisk can save an image to HDD before shutdown, and load it again after booting. I use batchs to load just the PaleMoon Profile to ramdisk after boot, and save it to HDD before shutdown (much faster). …

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Re: The downfall of Firefox

Posted on 2013-04-10, 00:35

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Jorpho wrote: ... why not just configure the browser to stop writing to disk and/or to use more RAM directly? That can be done in Linux, but as far as I know not in Windows, unless via ramdisk.

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Re: The downfall of Firefox

Posted on 2013-04-09, 23:04

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Isn't using a ramdisk for a browser by definition the same as disabling disk caching entirely? Nope nope, browser still caches, only instead of doing it on slow, crawling devices like an HDD ... http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/9818390/220/9818390.gif ... or an SSD ... http://www2.picturepush. …

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Re: Socket 478 Heatsink Alternatives...**UPDATED**

Posted on 2013-04-09, 14:27

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Better safe than sorry ... but ain't a 1000W PSU for a monocore Preshott like shooting a mosquito with a Navarone cannon?

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Re: Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines

Posted on 2013-04-09, 14:21

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I bet back in the day while I was 'sinking' the whole WARPAC fleet playing 'Red Storm Rising', some Soviet tovarich was 'sinking' the whole NATO fleet through that 'scope 🤣 .

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Re: The downfall of Firefox

Posted on 2013-04-09, 14:10

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This is what I do to make PaleMoon go hypersonic (works equally for Firefox). - Move the whole PaleMoon/Firefox Profile folder to a ramdisk . - Move PaleMoon/Firefox disk cache to a ramdisk . - Tactical touches in about:config : network.http.pipelining.maxrequests ····· user set ····· integer …

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Re: Socket 478 Heatsink Alternatives...**UPDATED**

Posted on 2013-04-08, 13:50

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sgt76 wrote: 300w!!?? You need moar power- a good 450w unit would do it ... Yep, the Kill-A-Watt shows this gorging dragon is now drawing from the wall 172W at idle & 311W full burner, I better upgrade PSU before something goes up in smoke.

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Re: Socket 478 Heatsink Alternatives...**UPDATED**

Posted on 2013-04-07, 01:49

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It's the new Windoze Blew, you touch, it bites 😁 .

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Re: Socket 478 Heatsink Alternatives...**UPDATED**

Posted on 2013-04-06, 23:29

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... "serious" overclockers only ever need 2 512mb modules. I'm far from being a 'serious' overclocker :happy: , didn't see the pencil :happyhappy: ? Thanks for the info on fast DDRs gentlemen, I'll see if I can scrounge some of that. Solved the 3.4E multiplier problem with a BIOS update, now is …

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Re: Socket 478 Heatsink Alternatives...**UPDATED**

Posted on 2013-04-06, 12:58

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Considering my at best average soldering skills and big paws I concluded that trying to solder on small & fragile SMD components would be recipe for disaster. So I looked for unconventional warfare alternatives. ... as the resistance needed to be added is very low, graphite can be substituted in …

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Re: Needed: Pictures of your completed Tualatin mods

Posted on 2013-04-05, 11:21

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Did you do the full MSI 6905 mod to your slocket or just the cpu side? Just modified the Tualatin CPU (isolate AJ3, AK4, AN3 & bridge AK4-AN11) . The MSI 6905 slocket remains as is, no mod was required, but must be version 2.0 or 2.3 to work with Cumines and Tuallys, previous versions wouldn't cut …

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Re: Needed: Pictures of your completed Tualatin mods

Posted on 2013-04-04, 12:34

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Perhaps that particular slocket doesn't cut the mustard ... ... Others which have failed Intel's internal tests, according to the document are Azza's 370 CPU Card 3.2, Fastfame's 370SPC rev 1.0, Epox' EP-S1C revs 0.5 and 0.6, FIC's CK71 rev M99A05 , 2theMax' EP-S1C rev 0.5, Eagles CM-1 and lastly …

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Re: Needed: Pictures of your completed Tualatin mods

Posted on 2013-04-03, 21:49

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What slocket are you using?

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Re: windows8

Posted on 2013-04-02, 20:17

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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/923803 … _OS_gains_share

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Re: Needed: Pictures of your completed Tualatin mods

Posted on 2013-04-01, 22:16

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I agree Slot-1 sucks big time, specially for cooling (funny how Intel announced it back in the day as the next best thing since sliced bread ... only to discard it a few years later for the 'cheap' s370), but I can handle. AGP runs way out of spec in Tualatinized BX boards, but (here is the deal) …

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Re: Needed: Pictures of your completed Tualatin mods

Posted on 2013-04-01, 13:16

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JaNoZ wrote: ... you cant run 133fsb stable anyway. Beg your pardon?

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Re: Socket 478 Heatsink Alternatives...**UPDATED**

Posted on 2013-04-01, 12:49

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Very interesting. If I get it right we should put a ~28K VR across ADP3180 pins 17 & 18, on or close to the SMD cap, correct? http://www.picturepush.com/photo/a/12564302/220/12564302.jpg http://www.picturepush.com/photo/a/12564310/220/12564310.jpg http://www.picturepush.com/photo/a/12564313/220/ …

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Re: AMSTRAD PC 1512 RTC Failure

Posted on 2013-04-01, 10:56

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I think you're getting a "last used at xxxx" non-fatal ROS message.

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Re: Socket 478 Heatsink Alternatives...**UPDATED**

Posted on 2013-04-01, 10:07

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Had to raise voltage because I'm having a lot of Vdroop at full 'burner. Not sure if the culprit is the mobo, the PSU, or both. Amazed you reached 4.0GHz with just 1.344~1.36V 😲 .

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