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Of Memory and Temperature
oniian
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I have a couple of random questions and hopefully someone can answer them.
First question:
I recently bought 2 more sticks of 1 gig RAM for my desktop, topping me off at 4 gigs. While expecting to not see all of it on XP due to the 32-bit limitation, I certainly expected to see more than I had before.
I added the 2 new gigs into my Asus P5B-E. At first it was only showing 3 gigs while posting and DXDIAG on XP showed only the original 2 gigs. I felt like I had determine that was not the RAM after testing each new stick of RAM in the two remain slots on the motherboard in all of the possible combinations and seeing nothing different when my PC was posting.
So I went into the BIOS's advanced settings to the north-bridge configuration and enabled memory remapping. Lo and Behold, the 4 gigs showed up when posting. But still nothing changed with DXDIAG. I go as far as flashing the BIOS and reinstalling XP but dxdiag and Asus's PC Probe 2 only show 2 gigs of physical memory. Ubuntu has seen the 4 gigs since the remapping.
2nd question:
While using Asus's PC Probe 2, the core voltage would drop down to 1.17 and the PC Probe would freak out. Is this abnormally low? The PC Probe thinks that the core voltage should be normal at 1.30 and no less than 1.18. All the other parameters are fine though. Should I be worried, testing my PSU, testing my outlets, or just using a better internals diagnostic tool?
Edit: I am pretty after observing the BIOS's internal monitor that the voltage is steadily at 1.31V and is fine. The PC Probe is just flaky.
3rd questions, somewhat of a comment:
I was surprised when I saw Firefox's mem usage under Task Manager. Firefox has always struck me as slim program. But after I trim away the fat (mainly AVG and it's Firefox add-on), Firefox starts using 30k off the bat. At work I can have (literally) 75+ tabs open at once and Firefox will be running at 210k. It stikes me as odd that FF needs 30k begin with.
Any Ideas?
First question:
I recently bought 2 more sticks of 1 gig RAM for my desktop, topping me off at 4 gigs. While expecting to not see all of it on XP due to the 32-bit limitation, I certainly expected to see more than I had before.
I added the 2 new gigs into my Asus P5B-E. At first it was only showing 3 gigs while posting and DXDIAG on XP showed only the original 2 gigs. I felt like I had determine that was not the RAM after testing each new stick of RAM in the two remain slots on the motherboard in all of the possible combinations and seeing nothing different when my PC was posting.
So I went into the BIOS's advanced settings to the north-bridge configuration and enabled memory remapping. Lo and Behold, the 4 gigs showed up when posting. But still nothing changed with DXDIAG. I go as far as flashing the BIOS and reinstalling XP but dxdiag and Asus's PC Probe 2 only show 2 gigs of physical memory. Ubuntu has seen the 4 gigs since the remapping.
2nd question:
While using Asus's PC Probe 2, the core voltage would drop down to 1.17 and the PC Probe would freak out. Is this abnormally low? The PC Probe thinks that the core voltage should be normal at 1.30 and no less than 1.18. All the other parameters are fine though. Should I be worried, testing my PSU, testing my outlets, or just using a better internals diagnostic tool?
Edit: I am pretty after observing the BIOS's internal monitor that the voltage is steadily at 1.31V and is fine. The PC Probe is just flaky.
3rd questions, somewhat of a comment:
I was surprised when I saw Firefox's mem usage under Task Manager. Firefox has always struck me as slim program. But after I trim away the fat (mainly AVG and it's Firefox add-on), Firefox starts using 30k off the bat. At work I can have (literally) 75+ tabs open at once and Firefox will be running at 210k. It stikes me as odd that FF needs 30k begin with.
Any Ideas?
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You could try a different monitoring program other than PC Probe to see if that also reports your voltage as fluctuating. If the voltage is actually fluctuating that much it could be a problem, but it's also possible as you said that it's just the PC Probe program screwing up.
Firefox is a memory hog. I don't actually know about the beta version 3 -- I've heard it uses less memory. But Firefox 2 is terrible for this. I have about 11 tabs open right now (many of which have been opened since yesterday afternoon) and it's using up around 240 megs of RAM. When 3 is officially released as non-beta I intend to try that, but if the memory usage hasn't been drastically decreased I'm switching to another browser.