As I said, it is not mine. Got it from a friend. And if I buy a new mobo I am gonna buy a new processor as well, so I rather save up for some good hardware this time instead of buying cheap stuff again. My Mobo is only 1 year old and the LAN Device totally fucks up my machine.
I disabled it completely now since I had freezes with it activated.
Well, it was active in the BIOS and one day my machine froze, after having it to shut down for like 10 minutes the LAN Device was suddenly there again. Tried to plug the cable back in, played a game, froze again. Disabled the LAN Device, no more freezes.
@allquixotic The driver is not the issue, the device can get lost each time I start my machine. Lost as in it disappears from the device manager completely
@allquixotic Yeah but when I enable the LAN Adapter my machine becomes unstable. So what if it tears down the whole mobo because of some circuit being damaged near there or so? I cant afford to replace it atm :\.
@Assylum: would borrowing a spare pci or pcie ethernet adaptor be an option?
(oh hell, if you were local I'd loan you one. I currently have a pair of them. And possibly one of those fancy 3com 10mbps adaptors if I haven't thrown it out)
@Assylum unless you're using the on-board iGPU and have no discrete graphics card, that statement is totally false, I'm sorry but it's wrong
as far as CPU bang for the buck (including power usage and upfront cost), Intel low-end CPUs and high-end ones absolutely obliterate AMD's literally obsolete CPU lineup
Well, I need the money first. Gonna see whats hot on the market then when I have it :P. No point in worrying right now. Anyway, thanks for the good help to everyone.
it may seem like a big difference between the "high" passmark score of the AMD vs the i5s being compared there, but look at the huge difference in single thread performance
if gaming is your thing, single thread performance is what will make the difference between a laggy game and a playable experience, because most games either run on a single thread or a very small number of highly active threads and a bunch of threads that barely do anything
@allquixotic Yes, intel are only better in single thread performance, amd fx is way better in multithreading perfomance though. But all new games do support multi cores. And hey, older games that are single core don't really need more than 4ghz single core speed imho.
@JourneymanGeek Mine is about 8 years old.. but runs :). It broke once after 1.6 years in use, but they replaced the monitor completely and since then no issues.
and then a 4770K is better a single and multithreaded performance, and is only about $120 more than a FX8350... if you're not going to go cheap on your next purchase, that would be the "goal" CPU ;-)
eh... unless AMD is first off the production line when TSMC ramps up 20nm (and their CPUs probably won't be; I'm betting they'll push Radeon through first, and Nvidia will be fighting for fab time too), Broadwell i3s will whomp anything AMD can throw out at 28nm and the discussion will essentially be over
(When I designed my box, I was running SB, and was going to get a core i5. LOTS of comparison shopping, a free SSD from a contest and a 3 month delay cause I was too damned busy to buy parts and...)
@Assylum: I think I saved for almost a year to build my current system
@JourneymanGeek every time you buy a cheap PSU, in a parallel universe somewhere, an Emperor Palpatine successfully electrocutes and kills a Luke Skywalker.
hell, doubling your current RAM (or basically using as much as your CPU will allow) will do worlds more for your performance than moving to a hybrid SSD
I have a low-end box. I know what the lack of performance feels like it. It's physically painful to wait for my browser to render a youtube video because it's CPU or bus-bound.
@allquixotic I believe mine is around that region. Maybe a little higher. That leaves ~100 W for the other components - 4 HDDs probably draw about 20-30 W, not even counting anything else.
