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#5911703 Posted on: 05/12/2021 11:34 AM
Personally I have 600/600 Mbps (which actually works at around 650/640 Mbps) and I'd be glad to have more, but as commented above, it's about the LAN, not the internet connection. Not even my NAS has better than 1 Gbps, so I'll be stuck with a maximum of ~940 Mbps actual speed for quite some time.
Im on 200mbi internet and i still don't think i need more.
Personally I have 600/600 Mbps (which actually works at around 650/640 Mbps) and I'd be glad to have more, but as commented above, it's about the LAN, not the internet connection. Not even my NAS has better than 1 Gbps, so I'll be stuck with a maximum of ~940 Mbps actual speed for quite some time.
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#5911731 Posted on: 05/12/2021 01:54 PM
Way better than those "gaming" switch... for the same price.
Sadly it lack the management, but yes it's enough for home use and make it less expensive.
Way better than those "gaming" switch... for the same price.
Sadly it lack the management, but yes it's enough for home use and make it less expensive.
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#5911766 Posted on: 05/12/2021 04:44 PM
MSI for me they have the best (high-end) motherboard layout engineer, too bad they messed up on the x570 creation, I have a trx40 creator and it's perfect, the M.2s are on the borders of the board and the main one is at the bottom front of the motherboard where it's the coolest, while on the asus dark hero it sits just above the gpu (without watercooling I would not have bought this MB because of that)
honestly I have no idea about memory timings and overclocks and I don't care that much I want something where my heavily modded games (aka borderline playable and 3fps on a mid-tier PC) actually run well not benchmarks numbers (they are just one way to know if my settings go in the right or wrong direction)
my memory kit is : Corsair CMW32GX4M4K4000C19 4x8Gbs ddr4-4000 19-23-23-45 (which was QVL for the msi creation but not the crosshair)
I run 4 sticks at 3600 18-21-21-41 CR1 I set 17 in the bios but for some reason it becomes a 18...I copied those from the SPD XMP info for 1789Mhz seen in aida64
CURRENT CTR 2.0 RC5 SETTINGS
P2 VID-1260mV CPUusage-16% HoldingTime-750ms CCX1-4725Mhz CCX2-4525Mhz
P1 VID-1106mV CPUusage-82% HoldingTime-750ms CCX1-4475Mhz CCX2-4275Mhz
Memory Speed DDR4-3600
Memory Timing 18-21-21-41 CR1
North Bridge Clock 1800Mhz
cinebench R23 28720/1574 18.25x
cinebench R20 11127/622 17.89x
cinebench R15 5032/265 19.02x 243.40fps
cinebench R11.5 51.83pts 127.39fps
good news X570 can take a 10gbe NIC Intel X550-T1 and a soundcard without running out of bandwith for the GPU (still 4.0 x16)
while I appreciate the fact that having only 2.5Gbs probably liberated bandwith for rear I/O USBs (I use 9+) I couldn't stay like this, almost an insult to people with okay or bad internet to nerf mine with a 2.5gbs port, I'm lucky enough to have the fastest consumer internet on the planet, believe me I'm using it
Have the same board Dark Hero couldnt find a MSI Godlike in stock at a normal price. I perfer MSI boards over Asus myself as memory and lane splitting just seems to be easier/better on MSI. I run 1 z490 God for old ladies work PC, 1 Gigabyte Extreme z490 for son gaming rig, x299 Creator for my Plex server, and Dark Hero x570 for my main gaming rig and I have to say I just absolutely hate the gigabyte board as it is very picky on memory takes forever for the first time post compared to the Asus and MSI. May I ask what memory and speed you have running on your Dark Hero? I can run DDR 4000 Gskill long as it 2 sticks with my 5950x but cant with 4 and of course there is a nice little hit going from 4 to 2 stick on the 5000 series so I saw no difference running a 1:1 4000 ratio with 2 sticks compared to 4 stick @ 3200 or @3600. I do however have the 4000 kit running at 3733 1:1 at c14 timings. The same kit could do c15 @ 4000 on my z490 godlike and I know 4000 isnt easy to do on Ryzen
MSI for me they have the best (high-end) motherboard layout engineer, too bad they messed up on the x570 creation, I have a trx40 creator and it's perfect, the M.2s are on the borders of the board and the main one is at the bottom front of the motherboard where it's the coolest, while on the asus dark hero it sits just above the gpu (without watercooling I would not have bought this MB because of that)
honestly I have no idea about memory timings and overclocks and I don't care that much I want something where my heavily modded games (aka borderline playable and 3fps on a mid-tier PC) actually run well not benchmarks numbers (they are just one way to know if my settings go in the right or wrong direction)
my memory kit is : Corsair CMW32GX4M4K4000C19 4x8Gbs ddr4-4000 19-23-23-45 (which was QVL for the msi creation but not the crosshair)
I run 4 sticks at 3600 18-21-21-41 CR1 I set 17 in the bios but for some reason it becomes a 18...I copied those from the SPD XMP info for 1789Mhz seen in aida64
CURRENT CTR 2.0 RC5 SETTINGS
P2 VID-1260mV CPUusage-16% HoldingTime-750ms CCX1-4725Mhz CCX2-4525Mhz
P1 VID-1106mV CPUusage-82% HoldingTime-750ms CCX1-4475Mhz CCX2-4275Mhz
Memory Speed DDR4-3600
Memory Timing 18-21-21-41 CR1
North Bridge Clock 1800Mhz
cinebench R23 28720/1574 18.25x
cinebench R20 11127/622 17.89x
cinebench R15 5032/265 19.02x 243.40fps
cinebench R11.5 51.83pts 127.39fps
good news X570 can take a 10gbe NIC Intel X550-T1 and a soundcard without running out of bandwith for the GPU (still 4.0 x16)
while I appreciate the fact that having only 2.5Gbs probably liberated bandwith for rear I/O USBs (I use 9+) I couldn't stay like this, almost an insult to people with okay or bad internet to nerf mine with a 2.5gbs port, I'm lucky enough to have the fastest consumer internet on the planet, believe me I'm using it
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#5911786 Posted on: 05/12/2021 06:49 PM
Yeah I run and Ae-9 sound card and a single slot M.2 card and still able to have video at full 4.0 x16. I almost didn't buy the dark just because it only had 2 m.2 slot has I ran x7 2tb m.2 and sound on my x299 10920x setup then went 10900k and each time I was loosing storage. That is some nice internet speed there I get around 2020 down and 900 up on Google's 2 gig. Here I was thinking being able to download a new AAA title off of steam at like 250mb/s sec and like 20 mins max for most titles was doing good lol. I wasn't to fond of the x570 Creation layout either and didnt really like that there Godlike had Killer nic either as I have had nothing but problems with there software deciding just to crap out granted its just a Intel nic with (crap) software.
Yeah I run and Ae-9 sound card and a single slot M.2 card and still able to have video at full 4.0 x16. I almost didn't buy the dark just because it only had 2 m.2 slot has I ran x7 2tb m.2 and sound on my x299 10920x setup then went 10900k and each time I was loosing storage. That is some nice internet speed there I get around 2020 down and 900 up on Google's 2 gig. Here I was thinking being able to download a new AAA title off of steam at like 250mb/s sec and like 20 mins max for most titles was doing good lol. I wasn't to fond of the x570 Creation layout either and didnt really like that there Godlike had Killer nic either as I have had nothing but problems with there software deciding just to crap out granted its just a Intel nic with (crap) software.
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Im on 200mbi internet and i still don't think i need more.