Posts by amberorca192

My old breaks still ache sometimes, though it’s not like they act up every single time the weather shifts.

I don't even drink it anyway. 🙂 😁

KURTZ (to Mark)
"I’m worried my boy won't truly grasp who I was trying to become.
If things end for me, Mark, I need someone to head
back to my place and give him the full story. Every single thing I pulled off, everything
you witnessed... Because There is nothing i detest more Than The stench
of Lies. If you get what I'm saying, Mark, I need you to see this through."

R.I.P.🙏

Karen White13 said:I love people who actually care, even if it's just online.🙂 😉

...Yeah, yeah, I went. But honestly? I mentally prepared myself this time and slept like a baby. Yesterday and today have been totally fine—I could probably go for a run if I had to😁. Now, what’s actually bugging me is🤔 how I feel after those two pills. I haven't taken anything else since, nothing was hurting, and here I am today feeling like a brand new person🙂
. ...I did the urine test and blood work, plus some X-rays, so that's that. Results come in Monday afternoon. I'll probably be stuck in a clinic this weekend...

👋

Anyway, good luck.😉

So, did you end up seeing the doctor?🤔

Karen White13 said:Thanks Winona, right back at ya.😘

I don't know, man. Last night I had this pain right where my left kidney is. It wasn't "referred pain" or whatever—my mother-in-law keeps telling me the pain should be hitting my groin instead. But seriously, it hurt so bad I was practically crawling on all fours just to get to the bathroom. I couldn't move my left leg more than three centimeters off the floor, and getting out of the tub was a total struggle. Peeing went fine, though. What could it be? A coworker thinks maybe it's kidney stones. I'm heading to my doctor today and I'm gonna ask for an X-ray or an ultrasound. Which one is better?

....and somehow my mother-in-law saved the day🙂 my husband ran out to grab some Robaxin, and I took one at 10 PM and another at 4 AM. Now? Not a single ache left.??????

I dealt with kidney stones for two years. During those first few attacks, I had the exact same symptoms as you, and I could still pee just fine.

Then one morning, I woke up with that same horrific pain, and suddenly I couldn't pee if I tried. Throwing up, total exhaustion... ended up in the ER at Mayo Clinic.

They wouldn't even give me anything for the pain until they figured out what was actually going on.
The tests dragged on until like 3 PM (I got there around 9), and they only finally gave me the injections once they confirmed it was stones.

During later attacks, I’d try taking four Robaxins and 300 mg of Tramadol and just wait for it to kick in, but nothing worked.

The pain was so intense I was basically passing out, so I had to go to the ER for shots of Tramadol, Anacin, Robaxin, and Toradol (not sure of the exact name on the last one).

You can drink 2 or 3 liters of water and feel like you have to go desperately, but nothing happens.
It sucks. Really.😢

It took me almost two years to pass everything, but thank God, I'm doing great now.

My advice? Get to a doctor ASAP.

Look, it might not even be your kidney hurting directly; it could just be referred pain making everything nearby ache.
I dealt with kidney stones myself and spent two years going through hell because of it.

If you can't pee, then a stone probably shifted and is blocking your urinary tract.

Get to a doctor or, if you can swing it, book a private ultrasound appointment right away.

Can you actually pee?

I mean, how could anything possibly go wrong?😬

boldeagle3 said:Just buy yourself a time machine and get outta here...👋

Seriously, for that kind of cash, you could probably afford a decent time machine...😬

Man, I would’ve totally paid for Metallica $110 if they had just rolled through town ten years ago.

Raymond Rodriguez40 said:So, I ran a little test myself...
Honestly, I'd rather just go smoke a gram and a half than deal with this much memory bullshit.😁

You getting a headache yet?😬

Sam Evans3 said:I don't buy those half-baked "tests" floating around, so I ran my own latency benchmarks.

Setup: P4 2.8 GHz C @ 3.5 (FSB 250)
FX5900 stock settings
1x512MB DDR400

1) RAM at 400MHz (Timings 2-3-5-2)

3dMark 2001 - 15930

Aida 32: read- 3007
write- 1228

2) RAM at 500MHz (Timings 3-4-8-4)

3dMark 2001 - 16167

Aida 32: read- 3641
write- 1370

So here's my takeaway: regardless of whatever fake tests people push, memory running at 400 with loose timings is way faster than 400 with aggressive timings.

Whoever ran that other test clearly needs a new prescription or just doesn't know how to run a basic benchmark.
Plus, 3dMark isn't even meant for measuring memory speed, which just shows they have no clue what they're doing.

Honestly, to keep talking to someone like this without losing my mind, I’d probably need to be high on something heavy.

Do you actually think standard software is more demanding than 3D games?😕
Trust me, most of them aren't.

Alright, let me drop some actual test results here.

Memory Benchmarks

Just a quick snippet from the report.

2-3% Improvement

Bandwidth matters for the Intel Pentium 4, sure, but it’s not the dealbreaker it used to be back when we were stuck with those old single-channel memory controllers on the i845PE. Things are looking a lot better thanks to the dual Channel support on the i865PE/i875P. On average, the setup running at 400 MHz (with the 5:4 memory divider turned on) and tighter memory timings actually beat out the high-speed memory with loose timings by about 2-3%.

Raymond Rodriguez40 said:What kind of testing are we even talking about here?

How much bandwidth are you getting at 333MHz versus 500MHz!?
Don't just claim that running 0-0-0-0 latencies at 333MHz somehow beats 3-4-4-10 at 500MHz.

That's just not how it works. On an Intel system, even using dual Channel at 333MHz, you’re looking at a measly 2700 Mb/s under ideal conditions regardless of latency. If you run it at 200 MHz—which hits a 3200 max throughput—the bandwidth is higher even with the worst settings in Single Channel...
What kind of math are you doing? It's faster if the clock speed is higher, right?

We aren't talking about Intel, we're talking about Intel.

The rest of the answer came from Cela.

Kenneth White17 said:I can't say I agree with that.
Neither can anyone else who actually understands how memory works.

Maybe do a little homework before chiming in...

I'm right there with you.
When I was overclocking, my own testing proved that dropping DDR 400 down to 333MHz while tightening the latencies actually performed better than pushing the frequency higher with looser timings.

Which partition are you looking to wipe?

Kenneth White17 said:Then you've got jumpers on the board or maybe some dip switches.

Check the motherboard manual to see how those jumpers and dip switches are supposed to be set.

If you don't have it handy, just find out the exact model of your board and hunt down the manual online.

Thomas Ward9 said:Heh, looks like you guys have some real beasts... I don't really have much going on. Just wondering how high I can push this Celeron 553MHz? Got PC 133 RAM, 128 MB. Motherboard is a Gigabyte (not sure which one, Socket 1). Graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce 9250, 32 MB.

What motherboard are you running?

It should hit 75 MHz without breaking a sweat.

I once overclocked a Pentium 4 and managed to squeeze out an FSB 83 MHz.

electriceagle40 said:I mean, I could ask... why wouldn't you go even higher?

Because there's a real chance you'll just fry the processor, plus every chip is going to run hot at those voltage levels.
Overclocking just brings instability and kills the lifespan of the CPU.

Tyler Lee57 said:I forgot to mention what happened when I tried to overclock my rig. I bumped it up to 3.0, hit save and exit, and the PC kept running, but then I lost the video signal. After a reboot, I just got a black screen saying "BIOS failure" and asking for a system floppy disk... (yeah, a literal floppy)
MAN, YOU ALMOST GAVE ME A HEART ATTACK, Tyler Lee57. I was sweating bullets there. I ended up power cycling it a few times until I finally reached the BIOS, reset everything back to 2.4, and managed to boot into Windows.....

That’s pretty standard when you start messing with overclocking.
It basically means you either didn't bump the voltage high enough, or you let the memory clock scale right along with the CPU.
You pushed the FSB to 250, which puts the RAM at 500 MHz, and clearly your sticks can't handle that speed. Maybe increasing the voltage would help.
Your best bet is probably just locking it at 400 MHz in the BIOS.

Then again, looking back at your old posts, maybe you should just leave the hardware alone and save the heart attacks for when you're older.