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vasa1
July 27th, 2012, 06:41 PM
If you have an older PC (no GPU), visit about:home in Firefox. They have an animation that's guaranteed to heat up your CPU.

ikt
July 27th, 2012, 07:31 PM
If you have an older PC (no GPU), visit about:home in Firefox. They have an animation that's guaranteed to heat up your CPU.

Why the older pc requirement?

My AMD x6 with AMD 5800 graphics card shows the olympic flame animation as well.

And yeah it is cool.. or hot? :)

CharlesA
July 27th, 2012, 07:43 PM
Pretty sweet. I saw that the other day.

My work PC was having fits with it tho.

forrestcupp
July 27th, 2012, 09:08 PM
Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing that.

vasa1
July 28th, 2012, 04:01 AM
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My work PC was having fits with it tho.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774508

That's the point, AFAICT. It uses "technology" that newer hardware comfortably handles by sharing the load with the GPU. Older PCs may not have that option and may struggle.

Nixarter
July 28th, 2012, 07:51 AM
Nce, thanks for sharing. :)

I wonder how long it will be before the olympic police shut it down lol. so hush hush people lol

grahammechanical
July 28th, 2012, 06:16 PM
The prominent colours seem to be purple and orange.

http://www.london2012.com/

Now where have I seen that combination before?

Regards