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Cyro
United Kingdom20321 Posts
On September 20 2013 09:25 Gihi wrote: Thanks for the advice and offer. I'll probably have to take you up on that ^^ I've just finished putting it together and I have yet to see if it boots & install W7 tomorrow. Dropbox link doesn't work (: | ||
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Gihi
384 Posts
Weird, I checked to make sure last night. Here's a working link. A pretty tight fit if u ask me, I have to take the heatsink fan off to install my ram this evening(Using 1600 MHz atm because of a late delivery). I'm running prime95 as I type this. I used the default overclock settings from my motherboard for now, it's running at 4.3 GHz. I had around 20-25 degrees while installing drivers etc, it's been running the default prime95 test for 10 minutes now. Haven't had a core go over 63 degrees. I already tried going to 4.7 before I had an OS installed, it idled at 40 degrees in the bios(Which puts strain on your CPU I think). Is it safe to go to 4.5 default and run a test? I'll have it run 24 hours overnight if I figure what clock speed I can get to without cranking up the voltages too much. | ||
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Cyro
United Kingdom20321 Posts
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Jonoman92
United States9104 Posts
I just got Google Fiber (live in KC, one of the test cities) and my internet speed is being severely limited by my old pci-e wifi card that only has b/g protocol. It says it's 54Mbps max but the tech with his laptop got way faster speeds then I am getting. I'm getting ~2MB/s. | ||
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Craton
United States17266 Posts
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166073 | ||
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MisterFred
United States2033 Posts
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Craton
United States17266 Posts
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
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Jonoman92
United States9104 Posts
On September 22 2013 04:21 MisterFred wrote: If you really want to get the full benefit of your Google Fiber, don't use wireless. Plug that right into your motherboard's ethernet port. This isn't an option in my current situation. Well actually, I might only need a 30 ft cord heh. Will consider it... | ||
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mav451
United States1596 Posts
On September 22 2013 04:11 Craton wrote: I use one of these. PCI-e x1, 35/10Mb down/up. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166073 Interesting - wouldn't hurt to have something in-case my wireless bridge (802.11g) goes down (god forbid). | ||
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hacklebeast
United States5090 Posts
Edit: I just noticed it occurs only on one of my monitors. | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
+ Show Spoiler [Reasoning] + To make sure the mouse pointer does not feel laggy if the PC does something that slows it down, the mouse pointer is drawn separately on top of whatever is happening on the screen by the graphics card. That's also why it's not showing up in screenshots. For some reason the icon that's loaded into the graphics card is getting corrupted for you. I had that happen when I overclocked my graphics card, and I had that happen with broken graphics card drivers. | ||
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Jonoman92
United States9104 Posts
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124477 | ||
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Gihi
384 Posts
On September 22 2013 13:17 Jonoman92 wrote: Regarding my earlier post, I'm considering getting this. It's a bit more than some other options, but has good reviews and says it its max speed is 450Mbps rather than 300. Worth it? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124477 It's 450 if u put it right next to your modem/router. Consider how far u'll be from it, if I were u I'd take some time to run a cable through the plinths/baseboards. | ||
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sc2pal
Poland624 Posts
Sorry, we were unable to connect to chat. Reconnecting in X seconds. I cleared cache, tried firefox and chrome and looked in google for answers, does anybody have a solution? | ||
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Conti
Germany2516 Posts
I want to buy a Nexus 4 on ebay. Will there be an immediate price drop once the Nexus 5 will be announced (which is rumored to be soon)? Or will there only be one once the Nexus 5 is actually available? I have no idea how these things work. In other words, should I wait with buying a Nexus 4, if so, how long? | ||
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Ropid
Germany3557 Posts
On September 22 2013 13:17 Jonoman92 wrote: Regarding my earlier post, I'm considering getting this. It's a bit more than some other options, but has good reviews and says it its max speed is 450Mbps rather than 300. Worth it? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833124477 Hey, there's something suspicious about that claim. It's using USB 2.0 to connect to your computer. USB2 simply won't be able to do this! It can only theoretically do 35MB/s = 280mbps. But I don't know how that fits together with WLAN. You already noticed that your current 54mbps WLAN doesn't really do those 54mbps, so who knows.  That PCIe 2.0 x1 card that was suggested to you, that PCIe connection can transmit 500MB/s = 4000mbps to the rest of the PC. | ||
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Myrmidon
United States9452 Posts
On September 23 2013 00:47 Ropid wrote: Hey, there's something suspicious about that claim. It's using USB 2.0 to connect to your computer. USB2 simply won't be able to do this! It can only theoretically do 35MB/s = 280mbps. But I don't know how that fits together with WLAN. You already noticed that your current 54mbps WLAN doesn't really do those 54mbps, so who knows. That PCIe 2.0 x1 card that was suggested to you, that PCIe connection can transmit 500MB/s = 4000mbps to the rest of the PC. The 54 Mbps link rate means that it sends effectively 54 * 10^6 payload bits / second over the air during a packet transmission. The issue is that it's not transmitting at that rate nonstop because the system needs to back off the air after every transmission to receive the acknowledgment and allow others a chance to start transmitting, and there are some other overheads and frame spacings that need to be accommodated, never mind if anyone else is actually transmitting on the same channel (if they're close enough, it need not even be on your own network to affect you). If there is a packet that doesn't get received, communications needs to go the other way, somebody else is using that frequency and not you, etc., all these things take up transmission time and mean that you're not seeing the middle of a packet transmission for you (at 54 Mbps). In practice you get say 3.5 MB/s or so with largish packet sizes. It's less with realistic data that includes some shorter packets too. That's because the overheads are largely constant after each packet no matter what its length was. More short packets and you get a lower percentage of time in actual transmissions and a higher percentage spent during acknowledgments, backing off, etc. Likewise, even if close enough (pretty close) to use the 450 Mbps link rate and not have errors, you're not going to get close to 56.25 MB/s. In other words, USB2 isn't necessarily a bottleneck or at least not much of one. USB2's signalling rate is 480 Mbps; that 35 MB/s quoted is around what you can effectively get of actual data transfer rate. If the device quotes a max speed of 450 Mbps, that means it can do 3 spatial streams on 802.11n. If the device on the other end also supports 3 or more spatial streams, then that's a slight advantage over the other device (at max 300 Mbps, that means it can only do 2 spatial streams). Yes, it's an advantage even if you're far enough away that you can't even get the max 450 Mbps link rate—best-case scenario, you'd be looking at connecting at say 270 Mbps rather than 180 Mbps or something like that. Note that your router needs to support 802.11n and also 3 spatial streams (it needs to cite support for at least 450 Mbps) to get the advantage. Also, in practice, I'd be more worried about getting something with drivers that aren't bad and decent customer reviews than counting spatial streams or anything else like that. Also, unless you like moving your box around to get better reception, something where you can position the antennas easily may be better. Having antennas close to the ground and also blocked by a metal box aren't great ideas, you know. | ||
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MisterFred
United States2033 Posts
Holy crap that post explained so much wifi marketing bull that I knew intuitively - but I never understood where the numbers came from. Thank you very much. | ||
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