I don't bother with Gboost because as my post noted the PC runs
flawlessly either way, and yes I Email and surf while using the radio.
On 12/6/2011 9:20 AM, William H. Fite wrote:
GBoost will do exactly what it says it will do. The problem is that
when you are checking an email while working the radio (as I think
most of us probably do) or some guy on the other end mentions a
product and you google on it, suddenly GBoost will decide it knows
what's best for you and shut your stuff down. I tried it with my
previous game-but-lame Gateway and found it totally unsatisfactory
just for that reason. I will decide what I want to run and when,
thank you VERY much.
(A little cranky today; not sure why.)
On 12/6/11, Ross Stenberg<[email protected]> wrote:
GBoost does a nice job of doing most of what you ask for on demand. It
will even shut down your browser and Email if it is running when it's
enabled. Frankly the the only difference I note on my not so special
"store bought PC" is a a few percentage points of CPU usage....say from
10% usage to 8%. It runs flawlessly either way and the DPCs don't seem
to change at all. I think you hit the point of diminishing returns once
you start using 4 core and above machines for our typical SDR and
ancillary program usage.
On 12/5/2011 6:09 PM, Michael Tondee wrote:
A little further thought and questions on this. Assuming I do this,
what all would you "strip" from Windows on the "radio" drive and what
kind of other stuff besides the obvious radio programs would you
add. I would think there would be no need for any type of E-mail or
even a web browser either for that matter. Virus protection? I don't
really think it's needed since the only online connections I would
make while on that system would be to DX clusters or possibly reverse
beacon networks and that type of stuff. I have an Nvidia video card
and I'm pretty sure it's drivers are shooting up my DPC's sometime. I
would think the most basic Windows generic video and audio drivers
would work. The point would be to make as lean and mean an OS as
possible on the "radio" drive just as someone would do with a stand
alone Flex dedicated machine so what type of stuff would you remove
and/or add? Also, since I only have 3GB of RAM GB, there is no
advantage to making the OS 64 bit is there? I'm running 32 right now.
Thanks,
Michael, W4HIJ
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