TELVM

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The Most Honest Windows 8 Criticism Comes From A Drunk

I'm intrigued, any particular reason for no Windows updates in years Charlotte?

I unscrewed myself with Schwarzenegger's opinions about Tiles:

Interestingly, the French did exactly that in their pre World War 2 fighters. While in almost every other air force in Europe and in the USA you opened throttle by pushing forward the lever, the same action in a french fighter would CLOSE the throttle. By hazards of war some of those french fighters ended up in the british RAF ... with predictable results: " ... Curtiss manufactured P-40 types for France which were later taken over by the British as Tomahawk Is and used for training. In one oft-told instance, a British pilot realized he was landing long, pushed the throttle to the firewall ... and the aircraft stalled and pancaked into a hangar. He climbed out, saying: "No wonder the bloody Frogs lost the war!". That you better don't mess with the interface lesson was learnt, and all post World War 2 french aircraft have 'forwards' throttle.

Man I just can't stand all this 'eightard' nonsense about an interface being 'obsolete' just because it's not 'fresh today'. If an interface works fine, it works fine, and until someone invents something REALLY TRULY better, professionals stick to it not giving a s*** if it was invented yesterday or a century ago. The Red Baron's Fokker Triplane, 1917: Eurofighter Typhoon, 2013: You seriously mess with that, be prepared for royal aborted take-offs and crashes ...

Very interesting reading, thanks. I remember like it was tomorrow the first time I saw and W95's desktop, the feeling was like 'wow, now we're getting serious ...' . With all its bugs and problems W95 was a huge step forward, never to look back.First time I saw W8 my feelings were like (chuckling) 'WTF is this joke?' ...

Happy new year! Windows 8 adoption rate falls way behind Windows Vista

AMD Phenom II 960T (unlocked to six-core, OCed to 4.1 GHz) ASUS M4A89GTD Pro 8 GB RAM (Windows 7 32bit ) Vertex 2 HD6870

The extra intake fan wasn't really needed, max CPU temps at full throttle, even in the hottest days, never reached 50C / 122F. It's just that I'm a deranged freak and love fiddling . From what I'm experiencing and what I read from other people who fiddled with Tuallys, seems Windows can't idle correctly the server Tualatins. Idle temps are abnormally high, 42C idle & 48C full throttle (while my OCed Coppermines idled at ~33 C). I really hated having to see an idle temp beggining with '4' , even in the hot of summer, so proceeded to kill mosquitoes with heavy artillery . The grill comes from a '91 Mazda Miata NA. Holes are large and pose minimal restriction to flow (just about half a degree of CPU temp empirically). Dino looks much better without a huge square hole in the front. The golden front hub or spinner is some cosmetics flask plastic top. The black rear cone is cardboard cut & rolled to shape. There is method in this madness! The center part of an Arctic Cooling F12 fan, as it comes from the box (flat bow & flat stern) ... ... behaves aerodynamically like a short cylinder (drag coefficient ~1.15). With hub and cone its shape gets closer to the subsonic ideal rain-drop streamlined body (cd ~0.04). Big boys know this well: I haven't scientifically measured the results of hub & cone, but I can tell with them the fan is less noisy at full RPM. Which means less turbulence, which means they do some good . There is now a strong forced jetstream flowing straight thru the CPU heatsink. Now at 27C ambient, CPU temps are 37C idle & 42C full throttle. Telvm happier . The progression of the dinosaur as recorded by the venerable TestCPU in W98SE:

Saharan heat here around, turboed the dino. "Varrrooom! Its jet exhaust... frying chickens in the barnyard!"

That's very interesting stuff Dave , thanks. I'll try to explore it.

It's funny, I modify the text in sysdm.cpl and the first time I right click sys properties it shows OK, but afterwards it comes back again to the original text. Some Windows file integrity policing I guess?

Cool, I love educated discussion on cooling . In fact all the fans are throttled down to reduce noise (hate noisy comps). You've touched it with a needle, Slot-1 is not good for cooling (the slotcket acts as a wall in the flow path, conventional Slot-1 heatsinks tipically obstruct northbridge chip cooling, etc). To secure the correct flow path (low front to high rear) I sealed every other opening in the case (sides, floor, top, and every opening in the rear unless extractor fans). After that it's just a matter of tuning the fans RPM to get the required total cfm with minimun noise. I drilled as low as possible, but the new rear 120 fan had to be relatively close to the PSU fan. I worried too about both fans 'fighting for air' in detriment of total flow, and considered drilling the top and flippng the PSU upside down. In the end empirically they work OK together and as you say the PSU fan helps with 'turning the wall'. Yeah, at 33W TDP a Tualatin 1400-S is really small game, just with the minimal gadgets posted above you can keep it at 48C / 118F under torture while at 29C / 84F ambient. Notice I didn't even bother with intake fans, no real need. The 440BX VRM 8.4 mosfets can be more of a problem however. They were designed for Coppermines, get extra stress with the Tualatin, and can fry if we don't take extra cooling measures. Man this board has me astonished . Good ol' 440BX is truly a legend .

You can't live forever. But overkill cooling helps a long life.

Honestly no idea. I'd say it runs a bit better. Kicks the buttocks of a P4 2400 in some Aida64 tests as a matter of fact.

Yeah, guilty as charged.

This bad joke of OS survived ten minutes in my comp. After just five minutes the itching, burning sensation was: However I thought 'come on, give it a chance, something good it must have'. But after ten minutes I couldn't endure it anymore. No way, thanks. Then to my inmense joy & happiness I discovered that W8 had sabotaged my system, to the effect that Se7en took now ten times longer to boot. So I exorcised the aberration, reformatting the partition with rancor, and savoured the monumental upgrade back to Se7en. I guess if the W98 folks are still using it 14 years later, I can run W7 until 2023 at the least.

Ha, finally managed to run a Tualatin 1400-S in the good ol' 440BX board .

My fault , scuze prieten.

Coppermines 1000 socket370 at Ebay.be Here's an unconventional solution for replacing the HDD in old IDE comps (aka 'The Poor Man's SSD'): Works like a charm in my dino.

Can't find any info on J2 jumper function, it's always 'hanging' or directly missing in these slotkets. Short of the Tuallys I'd get a 1000/256/133 Coppermine. Larger cache than Celeron, higher FSB as is, and decent OC potential. ..... 1 MHz Coppermines Slot-370 are aplenty and cost nothing nowadays.

There is this online pdf: MS-6905 CPU Converter Board Some more good info here: MS-6905 meets the Tualeron Mod Are you trying a Tualatin in a 440BX board, Drugwash? If so maybe it's the pin mod scheme what is giving you trouble, there are several different schemes and some work better than others on each different board.

Got some dinosaurian steroids. First a PIII Katmai 450/100, which overclocked like a champ to 600/133: Then a Coppermine 1000/133 with MSI slotket: . . Windows 98 runs fairly well now . However I think I'm gonna try to hunt some Tualatin 1400S, got wind they can be hacked into 440BX mobos .

Finally managed to connect the dino to the internet. With the latest Firefox it browses at an irksome pace, but does browse . Only from XP though, as to keep traditions the RTL8029AS card generates IRQ conflicts and I've had to disable it in 98 . BTW to remove the well entrenched 'Network Neighborhood' icon from the 98 desktop, we go to registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\ , (if as in my case there isn't an 'Explorer' folder under 'Policies', we just create it), then under 'Explorer' we create a new DWORD value called ' NoNetHood ', set its value to 1 , and next boot that icon is gone.