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12-09-2006, 05:42 AM
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| Surfing DodgeBoard vs. other vB boards This early morning's surfing showed 14 threads with new posts and I noticed the time was 5:12 when I started reading. Simple surfing: click in, read, click back. This little computer's lacking ram and such so sites with lots of code take time to load and unload. I understand that. 14 threads later I noticed the time was 5:34 so it took about 22 minutes to catch up with DodgeBoard. I had copied the shortcut to Bigun's site so I poped over there and remembered a friend and listened to a song ... and remembered him.... Anywho, back to the morning and a catch up on another vB board with 16 threads with new posts. The time was 5:45 and I did the same style of surfing: click in, read, click back. This site is similar to DodgeBoard but they encourage posting pictures of work projects. This morning's postings included 4 pictures that I also loaded... Total time there was about 14 minutes. The noticable difference between these two vB sites is that my hard drive wants to do the writing on DodgeBoard... it's constantly rattling during the changes. The other board is vBulletin Version 3.0.5 and it seems to load without much hard drive'ing... I know this is a lot of words to ask a simple question with an obvious answer but I'm trying to understand my confuser a little better.... I think my RAM can handle page changes with the other board but there's just enough code in DodgeBoard's pages that my RAM isn't capable of the task so the H-D takes over...... ? Is this what's happening?
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12-09-2006, 09:35 AM
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| Lurker, you need to ask "Santa-Dog" for a new comfuser for Christmas!! I think they make one for "paws" now!  |
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12-09-2006, 01:50 PM
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| While I cannot speak to this issue from the Board side of things, I am curious to know what version of windows you are using and just how much RAM do you have? |
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12-09-2006, 04:27 PM
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| win2K. System Properties>General shows Computer: x86 Family 6 Model 6 Stepping 0 AT/AT COMPATIBLE 97,840 KB RAM
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12-09-2006, 04:28 PM
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| Lurker, What kind of computer do you have? (examples) These can be seen at bootup... CPU Type: AMD, Celron, Intel CPU Speed: 1 ghz, 2ghz RAM: 128, 256, 512 HD Size: 20 Gig, 80 gig Free HD: 10 gig, etc Video: PCI Rage Turbo etc EDIT: You RAM is way too low for Windows 2000
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12-09-2006, 04:53 PM
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| Oh yes. I know I'm driving a peddle car on the superhighway... I'm in a holding pattern wondering if vista is worth the wait regarding my impending NEW COMPUTER purchase.... I'll pay attention during my next bootup... is that the F2 option? Setup? This morning's surfing intrigued me when I compared the two different vBulletin boards. Nearly identical but with very different load timing... and I imagined that my ram was overwhelmed.... Usual procedure is to close IE often to let it dump... and then reopen. I did make one change for this session: System Properties>Advanced>Performance Options..... I switched "Application response" "Optimize performance for:" and I checked "Applications" instead of "Background services".... I haven't noticed much change... yet.
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12-09-2006, 08:27 PM
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| confusers are too cheap to put up with that crap, Uncle Lurker - trash it, make a trip to KC, visit Best Buy and get one on sale.....the prices aren't so bad that you can't buy another when the other OS comes out.
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12-09-2006, 08:49 PM
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| I'd need to see what's in my pockets but I don't have any pockets...
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12-09-2006, 08:51 PM
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12-09-2006, 09:13 PM
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