This motherboard is nice. Almost too many choices. For example it has 10/100 Lan, Gigabit Lan and 802.11 g wireless connectivity. The wireless is so fast I am having 2nd thoughts about the need for hard wiring anymore. Does anyone know if there is a chance of improved performance if I use both? Or does it just default ot the weakest link? The Gigabit Lan seems a bit faster than the 10/100.
And that motherboard Live Update is fabulous! It does what it says and searches their site for all manner of bios updates, drivers, utilities and even the live update software itself. (There must be a dozen things related to this board.)It gives you a clear listing of your version number of a bios or driver compared to their latest version of a driver on their site and mentions the fixes and patches. Then at a click of a button it downloads and installs. It nice that bios updating has become so easy.
With everything patched and freshly installed including the chipset this 3.2 processor is fast! And I haven't even overclocked anything yet.
No it wouldn't. It will pick ONE and it would pick Ethernet over Wireless. And the wireless wouldn't be helpful in really helping the Ethernet connection anyway. The Ethernet is way faster than your Internet connection anyway.
Now if you want to see speed on the inside, from your computer to your wife's lets say, then get a router that actually makes use of the Gigabyte Ethernet settings.
I do believe that all of the devices will default to the slowest "nic" on the network.
Most of the "nic's" are auto-sensing. Example: if three devices were on the same network. one with a 10mbs nic, another with a 10/100mbs (auto sense nic) and another with a 10/100/1000mbs (auto sense nic) All devices will default to the 10mb speed.
Glad my son built both of mine with the high quality AMD processors.
And what a difference 2 x 512 memory cards makes.
The biggest difference I saw from one computer to the next of the 2 new ones, was better performance by adding a superior video card with a nice chunk of memory.
I wish I did both with transparent sides. The second one has a transparent side and the blue lit fans work nicely as a soft nightlight. The guts don't impress me, but the light is nice. It also is easy to tell when the dust needs removal.
But at $2800 each that ain't gonna happen right now. I might get one of them. Not sure yet until I see more and find out more. Lots of questions.
Claus is fine. We have been doing lots of painting for him and they need much more. He likes our service and always gives us lots of work each year. Here is where he works. He is in charge of the whole facility.
the guy at work is getting a really sweet deal on some HP LCD monitors... I'll check with don't know if they're as good as what you're looking for but they are sweet as well...
...and sometimes Fry's has unadvertised deals on refurbished Dell CRTs that are trinitrons...
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Steve!
Sweeeet!
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pawtucket
John,
BUILD IT QUICKLY!!! OR I will come down and do it.
What ya doing with your old one?
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This motherboard is nice. Almost too many choices. For example it has 10/100 Lan, Gigabit Lan and 802.11 g wireless connectivity. The wireless is so fast I am having 2nd thoughts about the need for hard wiring anymore. Does anyone know if there is a chance of improved performance if I use both? Or does it just default ot the weakest link? The Gigabit Lan seems a bit faster than the 10/100.
And that motherboard Live Update is fabulous! It does what it says and searches their site for all manner of bios updates, drivers, utilities and even the live update software itself. (There must be a dozen things related to this board.)It gives you a clear listing of your version number of a bios or driver compared to their latest version of a driver on their site and mentions the fixes and patches. Then at a click of a button it downloads and installs. It nice that bios updating has become so easy.
With everything patched and freshly installed including the chipset this 3.2 processor is fast! And I haven't even overclocked anything yet.
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pawtucket
John,
if wireless and wired are enabled, I believe that XP will select wired over wireless.
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Hmmm, thanks. Looks like it would draw from both.
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No it wouldn't. It will pick ONE and it would pick Ethernet over Wireless. And the wireless wouldn't be helpful in really helping the Ethernet connection anyway. The Ethernet is way faster than your Internet connection anyway.
Now if you want to see speed on the inside, from your computer to your wife's lets say, then get a router that actually makes use of the Gigabyte Ethernet settings.
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I do believe that all of the devices will default to the slowest "nic" on the network.
Most of the "nic's" are auto-sensing. Example: if three devices were on the same network. one with a 10mbs nic, another with a 10/100mbs (auto sense nic) and another with a 10/100/1000mbs (auto sense nic) All devices will default to the 10mb speed.
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you are correct.
His internal network would have to have 1000 mps on each computer; on the router; and on the computers transferring files.
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Glad my son built both of mine with the high quality AMD processors.
And what a difference 2 x 512 memory cards makes.
The biggest difference I saw from one computer to the next of the 2 new ones, was better performance by adding a superior video card with a nice chunk of memory.
I wish I did both with transparent sides. The second one has a transparent side and the blue lit fans work nicely as a soft nightlight. The guts don't impress me, but the light is nice. It also is easy to tell when the dust needs removal.
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Dam noisy processor, stock fan from Intel. Replacing it with one of thee beauty's.
Extremely quiet, efficient and....purty too.
LED Blue Zalman Flower Copper Cooler
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hegotHope! are you STILL building this thing? do you need a license to drive it? do you have to register it with the state?
...and why are you sending me to a site that wants to install Korean on my computer?
(say hey to Claus for me)
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This thing is fast and looks fabulous too. I'll do pictures some day when I am not working so much.
Yeah, almost done. Shopping for double monitors now like these.
Samsung
I like this setup too.
Triple monitors
What I really want is two of these side by side or on top of each other:
30" Apple Cinema
But at $2800 each that ain't gonna happen right now. I might get one of them. Not sure yet until I see more and find out more. Lots of questions.
Claus is fine. We have been doing lots of painting for him and they need much more. He likes our service and always gives us lots of work each year. Here is where he works. He is in charge of the whole facility.
PErforming Arts Center
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the guy at work is getting a really sweet deal on some HP LCD monitors... I'll check with don't know if they're as good as what you're looking for but they are sweet as well...
...and sometimes Fry's has unadvertised deals on refurbished Dell CRTs that are trinitrons...
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ChattyKathy
John, my face is gone.
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Is your website having some difficulties?
And how the heck are you anyway?
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Thank you John! Much better now.
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Glad you saved face Cathy.
I am having endless problems with this card by ATI.
ALL IN WONDER PCI EXPRESS
Do not buy this card!
Better to stick with Nvidia cards in my opinion, especially for multi-monitor.
ATI's TV products are lousy IMO. I shoulda known.
BEtter to get a stand alone TV card like this one from Hauppauge.
Watch & Record TV on your Computer
Ordered two Nvidia cards (to handle triple monitors).
Nvidia 6800 with dual DVI, PCIexpress
Returning the sucky ATI card for a full refund. It was hard to convince them to do that. Lots of tech support and troubleshooting first.
Who has the time!!
Remind me never to build a computer again!
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Tom Strange
Hey, what do I need to save stuff from my Tivo to my hard drive so I can burn DVDs of it? (for my personal use of course)
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