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(Sorry about the car analogy.)
I'm having a difficult time deciding what kind of PC I really want. I've got a couple of Q9300 rigs with 8GB, a couple of Thuban X6 1045T rigs, a couple of E-350 ITX rigs, and a slimline G630 Sandy Bridge dual-core rig. (I've got a few other misc PCs as well, and a LLano quad-core HTPC, and a storage server.)
I've had the Q9300 rigs the longest, and they hold a dear part in my tech heart.
The Thuban rig is really nice, but temps got too high with 2x GTX460 GB OC cards, and some advanced GUI apps started crashing.
I was concerned about power consumption, and I couldn't resist a sale, so I picked up a Gateway slimline rig, with a G630 dual-core.
For a while, I liked the dual-core, power-consumption was much reduced, but I found my internet radio skipping. So I hooked up a Q9300 again. Well, after a week or two,
i found my internet radio skipping again, when I simply scrolled my web browser.
There was very little CPU or GPU load, as I had disabled DC a few days prior, when it started getting really hot outside. Plus the Q9300 had an ATI HD4850, whereas the G630 had an NV GT430.
I've basically decided that the problem lies with Waterfox and Flash Player (both 64-bit). What I can't quite figure out is whether the SSD in each rig is contributing to the issue as well. Nearly half of the Q9300's 8GB of RAM was free too.
So, it's a little hard to fathom how a quad-core x64 rig @ 3.0 with a discrete video card, barely under any load, with an SSD, can cause skips in internet radio when scrolling web pages.
I would like a powerful, power-efficient rig to use.
I managed to snag an MSI A85X FM2 ATX board for $40. Would an FM2 rig with IGP do me good?
I'm having a difficult time deciding what kind of PC I really want. I've got a couple of Q9300 rigs with 8GB, a couple of Thuban X6 1045T rigs, a couple of E-350 ITX rigs, and a slimline G630 Sandy Bridge dual-core rig. (I've got a few other misc PCs as well, and a LLano quad-core HTPC, and a storage server.)
I've had the Q9300 rigs the longest, and they hold a dear part in my tech heart.
The Thuban rig is really nice, but temps got too high with 2x GTX460 GB OC cards, and some advanced GUI apps started crashing.
I was concerned about power consumption, and I couldn't resist a sale, so I picked up a Gateway slimline rig, with a G630 dual-core.
For a while, I liked the dual-core, power-consumption was much reduced, but I found my internet radio skipping. So I hooked up a Q9300 again. Well, after a week or two,
i found my internet radio skipping again, when I simply scrolled my web browser.
There was very little CPU or GPU load, as I had disabled DC a few days prior, when it started getting really hot outside. Plus the Q9300 had an ATI HD4850, whereas the G630 had an NV GT430.
I've basically decided that the problem lies with Waterfox and Flash Player (both 64-bit). What I can't quite figure out is whether the SSD in each rig is contributing to the issue as well. Nearly half of the Q9300's 8GB of RAM was free too.
So, it's a little hard to fathom how a quad-core x64 rig @ 3.0 with a discrete video card, barely under any load, with an SSD, can cause skips in internet radio when scrolling web pages.
I would like a powerful, power-efficient rig to use.
I managed to snag an MSI A85X FM2 ATX board for $40. Would an FM2 rig with IGP do me good?