Personal computing discussed
Moderators: renee, Flying Fox, Thresher
Flying Fox wrote:The drivers seem to be better, but without the newer southbridge the difference is negligible at best. I would stick with Microsoft's stock.
flip-mode wrote:Flying Fox wrote:The drivers seem to be better, but without the newer southbridge the difference is negligible at best. I would stick with Microsoft's stock.
I'm patiently waiting for the new chipset, and its disk controller performance will determine whether or not AMD will remain in my computer. I've absolutely had it with SATA performance on the AMD platform.
Flying Fox wrote:That's typically true. If I did lots of large transfers then it would be more serious, but it common usage it's no big deal. And yet, after 5 years of having it's own chipset division...I'm using my SB750 platform fine with the PhII X4 965. The only issue I see is in benchmarks, of course as long as I stick with the stock drivers.
flip-mode wrote:Flying Fox wrote:The drivers seem to be better, but without the newer southbridge the difference is negligible at best. I would stick with Microsoft's stock.
I'm patiently waiting for the new chipset, and its disk controller performance will determine whether or not AMD will remain in my computer. I've absolutely had it with SATA performance on the AMD platform.
axeman wrote:Who knows, maybe hot-swapping is worth more than NCQ after all, at least on desktops.
axeman wrote:just brew it! wrote:axeman wrote:Who knows, maybe hot-swapping is worth more than NCQ after all, at least on desktops.
Well, it is certainly worth it if you want to use an external eSATA drive for backup. Especially if you don't have USB3 ports (or a USB3 external drive).
Exactly my point. If you aren't going to need the hot-swapping, perhaps fighting with AHCI (at least on AMD southbridges) isn't worth your time; just turn it off and see if performance is acceptable.
Meadows wrote:At one point when copying a single massive file, transfer speed averaged around 95 MiB/s, and while I'm sure SSD people will scoff at that, I'm perfectly happy.
ronch wrote:I also noticed that when I try to connect to our network for the first time after an OS reinstall, it asks me for the group password to one of our computers. That never seemed to have happened before. Does anyone here think there's a virus on the loose on our home network? AVG doesn't catch and report anything though.