Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
I see the thread has morphed a little, but the core is graphics cards (pun intended). On a related note I just this week upgraded my computer from an HP Z620 workstation (it is still housing my RAID
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KK1L Ron
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
+ AA6YQ comments below
+ Setting an application's affinity is indeed transient; it is reset when the application is restarted, and when Windows is rebooted. There are several Windows automation tools
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Dave AA6YQ
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Re: Windows 11 24 H2
+ AA6YQ comments below
+ Perplexity's report, with citations of its sources, is appended below.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
Windows 11 24H2 offers performance improvements and new features but has faced
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Dave AA6YQ
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
+ AA6YQ comments below
+ A few years after we designed the Nova 2 minicomputer, my long-time accomplice Mike Druke and I were walking with our wives along the boardwalk of a beach town on Cape Code.
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Dave AA6YQ
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
+ AA6YQ comments below
+ The user decides
- how many cores to purchase
- how many cores to assign to each application
+ The Windows Task Manager displays each core's utilization, so a determined
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Dave AA6YQ
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
Thanks for the info, Dave.
I understand to go into Windows Task Manager, Details tab, and Set Affinity to accomplish this. I am finding, that when Spot Collector is terminated and restarted, I have
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Earl Needham
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Re: Windows 11 24 H2
OK thanks.
73, Bob KB4CL
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2025 10:57 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [DXLab] Windows 11 24 H2
Here you can find a bug report from a couple weeks
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Bob Main
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Re: Windows 11 24 H2
Here you can find a bug report from a couple weeks ago.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/10-pesky-windows-11-24h2-bugs-still-haunting-pcs-despite-several-patches/
personally I have been using it without
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KA9JAC
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Windows 11 24 H2
Do you know if 24 H2 ever got straightened out? I remember a few months ago
that it was one update you DID NOT want to install. I'm asking because a
friend of mine has the home edition of Windows 11
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Bob Main
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
Dave,
I shared your explanation with ND0B (whom I was on zoom with) and he used
one of your computers while attending NDSU in the 1970's . (North
Dakota State University). The corp you worked for
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Hasan Schiers N0AN
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
Nice explanation but does the user have any part in this or is it all I the coding and the hardware in use? If the user has any part in this then how does the user accomplish it?
It sounds like a
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Gilbert Baron W0MN
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
+ AA6YQ comments below
+ The terms threads and cores refer to different aspects of a CPU's functionality.
*Threads*
A thread is a sequence of instructions that a CPU executes. Threads are managed
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Dave AA6YQ
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
Oh my, I just realized the difference in cores and threads. I was thinking threads, as in giving giving three THREADS to Spot Collector. Is it instead three cores / six threads?
Thanks,
Earl /
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Earl Needham
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
+ AA6YQ comments below
+ If you're going to assign 3 cores to SpotCollector and 1 core to PropView and the VOACAP engine, then I suggest assigning your other DXLab applications to a 5th core,
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Dave AA6YQ
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Re: Graphics cards and Monitors for the shack/ DXLab
So, looking at this --
Assigning three cores to Spot Collector, and one (?) to PropView?
Should one then go through ALL apps and restrict them from using the cores that SpotCollector and PropView
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Earl Needham
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Re: Considering upgrading to Windows 11 - final report!
Success thanks to the advice from all of you who contributed, and Dave's FB instructions, I am now running Windows 11 and everything seems to be working!
Great group, great software and the best
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David Reed
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Re: Considering upgrading to Windows 11
This group does not allow pictures. It will be interesting to hear what they have to say. It will also be interesting to see how quickly they reply.
Tom - KQ5S
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TOM-KQ5S
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Re: Considering upgrading to Windows 11
this is the message I get if I just use 1.1.1.1 I'll see what cloudfare says
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Jamie WW3S
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Re: Considering upgrading to Windows 11
I do but I turned it off, rebooted the computer and tested again. 1.1.1.1 still works.
Tom - KQ5S
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TOM-KQ5S
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Re: Considering upgrading to Windows 11
Do you have a secondary dns server specified? If I choose a second it works, but with only 1.1.1.1 it doesnt
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Jamie WW3S
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