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    The "Browser Ate My Memory!" thread

    Some of the weird ways RAM gets abused for no good reason:
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    ASUS and Acer Are Now Banned from Selling PCs and Notebooks in Germany Following a Court Ruling Regarding H.265/HEVC NOKIA Patent

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    The "Browser Ate My Memory!" thread

    I have some old Opera version that I installed probably back in 2018. Don't want to update since the newest version is supposed to be Chinese owned. The version I have is pretty good though. Still pretty responsive and for some reason, Youtube runs really well on it. But it also has the memory...
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    The "Browser Ate My Memory!" thread

    I tried using it on my Haswell work PC. It would freeze occasionally which was annoying so stopped using it for more than 5 or 6 tabs. I have it available on Win8.1 too but I steer clear of it.
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    Tradepub ebooks (updated weekly)

    https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_pacc88/prgm.cgi https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_wile838/prgm.cgi https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_wile837/prgm.cgi https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_wile836/prgm.cgi
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    The "Browser Ate My Memory!" thread

    I'm on Windows 8.1 (Core i7-3720QM Thinkpad 32GB RAM) and this hardware runs the OS pretty well. It's basically my internet browsing machine. One great reason for staying on Win8.1 is no pesky updates forcing a restart. HOWEVER, since Firefox is my preferred browser, it leaks RAM regularly...
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    This is how badly Intel screwed itself over

    https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/investigation-of-single-thread-cpu-thoughput-cycle.2633808/ Lion Cove topping the IPC chart. If Intel had fixed the latency in Arrow Lake Refresh, I could've gotten more life out of my investment.
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    Cheap grain bars (Kind brand) 80 for $19.99!

    https://sidedeal.com/deals/80-pack-kind-healthy-grains-energy-bars-10 There's the shipping cost but that still sounds like a great deal!
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    The BEAUTIFUL GPU connector that keeps on giving

    Makes no sense unless he was duped with a fake card. https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-geforce-rtx-5090-catches-fire-on-camera
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    Nova Lake may actually hit the mark!

    Yep. Looking great!
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    Nova Lake may actually hit the mark!

    290K is back. Now supposedly launching in May as Intel engineers work on "polishing" it further. Could be it gets some special treatment to reduce die temps, contrary to their stupid 14900KS that they recommended should be delidded.
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    Tradepub ebooks (updated weekly)

    https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_pacc87/prgm.cgi https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_wile835/prgm.cgi https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_wile834/prgm.cgi https://javacodegeeks.tradepub.com/free/w_wile833/prgm.cgi
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    The BEAUTIFUL GPU connector that keeps on giving

    Wear a welding visor for safety, folks!
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    The BEAUTIFUL GPU connector that keeps on giving

    https://videocardz.com/newz/rtx-titan-blackwell-or-rtx-5090-ti-nvidia-reportedly-is-developing-a-new-rtx-50-series-halo-gpu-for-q3-2026 I would be surprised if this doesn't require two 600W connectors, for twice the fun and twice the risk of burning cables!
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    level1tech watching three ASROCK AM5 mobos like a hawk!

    I do not want to find out how AMD treats its customers in UAE. Most likely, AMD will say, go to seller which is Amazon UAE and Amazon will say, sure, we'll send it back to Amazon UK (from which they got it) and then who knows how long that will take.
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