Recent content by Andru123

Nah, we had a pleasant conversation with other folks here :) You need to know what is your PC uses (advise: invest in kill-a-watt or similar meter for 20$ and just measure). Let’s say you game on your PC 3 hr a day, and it uses 400W. Other time PC is off. Look at the efficiency curve of the PSU...

Best way is to measure, then you know for certain. Get a kill-a-watt or one of those tp-link measuring plugs (ep25). Then you will see at wat power your computer works and can find it on the curve that every PSU provides. Best investment.

Depends why you do that… If the goal is to get as efficient system as possible, that is noble, saves you electric bill and green for the planet. But platinum and gold start differ only in certain ranges of use. What is typical wattage range your pc operates?

It was true in the past with older Realtek chipsets/drivers. However their recent chip revisions have significantly improved - that is just an observation I am trying to convey. I was also surprised, tbh, how well Realtek chip performed compared to Intel. Intel i210, i211 and i219 were extremely...

@chrcoluk Even with Intel chip, the cpu should not go higher than 6% at full load. Interrupt moderation is a feature that is specifically designed to reduce CPU usage and improve throughput at the same time. It is weird to not enable it. The same goes for hardware offload - network chips can do...

I have extensively tested different Realtek and intel chips, and have very different results. (It is dutch forum, but you can use translate button if screenshot is not clear) I think there is your problem: Interrupt moderation disabled. Large send offload disabled. Power saving features...

Any chance you also measured CPU/power consumption? Realtek problem was that it used too much CPU during network traffic handling.

@ir_cow You mentioned that underside had some RGB leds. Can you describe more, if you remember? like, 2-3 or 10 across the board?