Wow - Been maxing out my Q6600, Which C2Q Next?

In a fashion

levyte357- wrote: Just read Waterfox is packed with all kinds of adware/crapware..

Sorry, but have to call BS on that one.

The last bit of what could by a very loooong stretch be called "adware" was dropped allready around V12 (now V16), and even that was just a bundled anti-virus plugin by AVAST, which could be unchecked durring install. But even that is history now.. The latest versions are clean as it gets, tho it's still a good idea to carefully check every bit of available options the installer is offering, as like with any other software it's of course not guaranteed that something might get included (but still optional!) in the future.

SSDs are great for their speed and access times, but it won't help with CPU spikes. Unless your current HDD is faulty and is the primary cause of the spikes in the first place.

FB and its relatives clogging up the browser with wasteful JS garbage?!

How..."surprising"

"A bunch of 10yo kids let loose after a 6 hours long PHP-for-dummies turbo course + 3 hours of the same for JS" - Yea, I'm talking about FB "developers" in the first 2 years of its existence They might have learned something over the past years, but it's still pretty much a catastrophy at times..

It is true that FF has a history for clunky JS/memory handling (mostly the garbage/cycle collection engine), but in this case I would rather put the blame on the FB/game developers, especially their optimization skillz..

Try the Waterfox allready and see if it makes any difference.. There really is no adware/bloatwave inside (heck, it's opensource), and you can allways uninstall it in case it doesn't cut the mustard..

Also make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player installed, especially if you experience crashes of the flash plugin. And install it AFTER installing the browser, not before.

odc04r wrote: I'd drop FB and keep Firefox. I know what's more useful. Or use noscript and/or a greasemonkey script to keep nuisance JS to a minimum.

Had discovered this while back, and clean forgot to never pollute FF with FB games.

TENSiON wrote: Try the Waterfox allready and see if it makes any difference.. There really is no adware/bloatwave inside (heck, it's opensource), and you can allways uninstall it in case it doesn't cut the mustard.. Also make sure you have the latest version of Adobe Flash Player installed, especially if you experience crashes of the flash plugin. And install it AFTER installing the browser, not before.

Trying WF now, only major issue discovered so far is problems accessing QuakeLive.


Edited by levyte357- - 15 November 2012 at 6:23pm

Sinai Sound wrote: In a fashion I've heard 5 years give or take - by the time it's due for replacing, much larger and cheaper ones will be available for the money  Of course it all depends on what you are doing with the PC, but for general light use for a limited amount of hours per day, you'd be safe Wouldn't recommend one in a SQL server that's turned on 24 hours a day with multiple users connected to it.........but I don't think that's what you're doing  The other thing to consider (but also not to worry about) is the fact you'll be running a SATA2 motherboard - Limited to about 285MBs transfer rate To get the best out of an SSD (well a new fast one at any rate) you need SATA3  I'm running one in my 3 year old core i7 PC that's on SATA2 quite happily  Check the write speeds also, some have mega fast read, but not so impressive write

There are several datacentres running on SSDs without issue, and the write limit is insanely high for the average user.

mini-mad wrote: i have 1 flagship rig (the wifes), the video/game rig (mine) and my daughters laptop. none of them crash and my daughters laptop rarely stutters. (now starting to sound like a sales pitch...) but if you just adhear to the simple advice in life sh1t very rarely goes wrong NOW GO OUT AND BUY A SODDING SSD BOOT DRIVE!!!!! thanks for listening

'Sodding SSD.

Must be a new manufacturer, never heard of them.