J. Roeleveld wrote: > On December 20, 2018 11:45:29 AM UTC, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Thursday, 20 December 2018 08:12:43 GMT Dale wrote: > > Thanks for the help. When I boot next time, maybe it will > log the error and I can see what is going on. > > You could also try CTRL-S to pause the screen update and > CTRL-Q to let it continue. > > > > I did try page up, up arrow and such. I was trying to get at least one > or two keywords to look into. Thing is, it is so fast. My old 4 core > booted pretty quick but this new 8 core with faster clock speeds is > seriously fast. It goes from the kernel starting to load to sddm > starting in seconds. I'm not sure if the extra memory helps at that > point or not but the faster and extra cores sure does. I'll try to > remember that ctrl s. I just better have my fingers ready. lol > > If I had a sdd drive for the OS to be on, I guess it would be even > faster. vvrrrmmmmm vvvrrrmmmmm!!!! > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > > Next upgrade idea: > - mainboard with NVME slot > - NVME drive for your OS. > > Your CPU and memory will be the next bottleneck :) > > > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
Yea. I looked into rebuilding from scratch, less the case of course. I'm just not sure it would be worth the speed increase. The biggest things I needed, more drive space and more memory. The CPU was just on sale. Hard to beat $75.00 for a 8 core CPU running at over 4GHz. Right now, it's plenty fast. I may consider it after I do some other things tho. I plan to do a emerge -e world before to long. I wanted to let the new CPU compound sort of get set in. I might add, the new video card is way overpowered for what I do. LOL Most of the time, it maxes out at about 10% of its power and less than 10% for memory usage. I really can't tell much difference from my old 220 to this new 650 series. The biggest difference, the 650 runs much cooler. I just hope it doesn't get bored and go to sleep. ;-) Oh, when I run glxgears at full screen, it still only goes to about 60%. It warms up a little but not a whole lot. Now to go see what a NVME drive is. I don't recall ever hearing of those. Sounds interesting. Dale :-) :-)
