graphics or ram?

**jscheuer1** · 08-20-2007, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by lainlives

everyone beat me to it

just a question, why was he banned

Two ways of looking at it I can see:

1 ) He posted like 5 or so 'stock' questions in several forums in rapid succession, all with the same advertisement attached. This made it pretty clear that he was either a 'bot' or a person here mainly for self promotion.

or:

2 ) Twey gave him an infraction (about the advert) which he ignored and posted it again. Twey gave him another infraction. He obviously ignored both. I independently gave him a similar infraction. The points added up to more than 20 - instant ban.

**boxxertrumps** · 08-20-2007, 07:34 PM

I have 1 1/2gbs of ram in my computer, and the time it takes for programs to boot up has significantly decreased from when i had 1/2gb...
right now the only cap i have for performance is my CPU, it's only (lol, only...) 2.8ghz. most of it is occupied by the protein folding client i have running (90-60% is used by the client, rest is OS and other apps), i'm worried it'll explode or something if maxed at 100% for too long.
http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...e=boxxertrumps
not very impressive, but a start.

**lainlives** · 08-20-2007, 07:55 PM

overclock the cpu

**jscheuer1** · 08-20-2007, 08:06 PM

Originally Posted by boxxertrumps

protein folding client

I'll have two dogs, sunny side up please. Make any interesting prions recently?

**boxxertrumps** · 08-21-2007, 06:30 AM

I dont know, how would i check?
(no GUI for linux upsets me...)

**tech_support** · 08-21-2007, 07:45 AM

I have 1 1/2gbs of ram in my computer, and the time it takes for programs to boot up has significantly decreased from when i had 1/2gb...

It depends on how fast the RAM is. I have a friend with 2gb of DDRII 553Mhz and his programs load significantly faster on my computer (1gb DDRII 800Mhz)

it's only (lol, only...) 2.8ghz.

Dual-Core? My computer's 1.86Ghz Core 2 Duo.

most of it is occupied by the protein folding client i have running (90-60% is used by the client, rest is OS and other apps),

50% on both cores here.... and my stuff still runs fine.

i'm worried it'll explode or something if maxed at 100% for too long.

I wonder what will happen to servers then...

http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/...e=boxxertrumps

Owned.

**Sliight** · 08-21-2007, 04:15 PM

Someone mentioned malware... you can dowload spypot and ad-aware, as well as avast antivirus from www.cnet.com (download sections). Run those and see what comes up. You can also click "start" "run" then type "msconfig" and click the startup tab. See what all is starting when your computer boots. Don't mess with things you don't recognize, but you can dump quicktime, adobe, and other items that you don't need to have run at start up. They just save you a small amount of time if you ever use their programs...

One of the cheapest fixes out there for speed is a complete system wipe. Granted, this isn't something that happens fast... plan on an afternoon to re-install everything. Be sure you have your OS disc, and all other program discs as well. If you don't have a nice external flash drive, you may have to burn your data onto discs to keep it though...which is SLOWWWW....

If you decide on a full wipe...be sure and create a few partitions on your drive. This way you can wipe the OS partition and start fresh the next time around.

I think the fastest and easiest though is a RAM upgrade with a full scan of the system to remove crap. Be sure and run a bootup scan, as many nasties can hide otherwise...