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EPB locally offers 30 meg up/down fiber optic for $120 versus current Comcast $116 bill.

Jump to EPB?

Anyone know of horror stories?

i would! symmetrical 30 sounds nice! don't know much about the company tho sorry

wifi -- it's all good now

i've seen my wifi experience a slowdown every now and again i think i told you that before, a simple router restart and it clears everything up

probably just the router running out of resources after being on for like 6 months straight haha

I thank you so very kindly for the reply. After some thought, Think I will leave the overclocking alone. Really can not see risking it just for bragging rights. I for sure agree with the need to lower the defaults a bit. That way the cooler will kick on while gaming. Kinda pointless to have liquid cooling if I am not gonna use it.

Also handy having a better understanding of temps, what the max is, greatly appreciate that information. One other question, Should I Run amd Cool and quiet? I set the bios to run the motherboard optimized. If you look at this video below, It will help you better understand what I am saying. While looking at the advanced settings I noticed amd cool and quiet was disabled. Never to crazy to change bios settings. So like to be sure. Better safe than owning a brick.

i run AMD cool n quiet especially since i'm OC'ing it really helps out on saving some power/reducing heat

and it will prolong the life of your CPU less heat on your cpu will mean longer life

changing most settings in the bios won't brick anything worst case is your pc won't boot but most of the time it will still post the bios

the cool thing about new motherboards is when you fail OC'ing e.g "oc'ing to high and the pc wouldn't normally post" the bios will still post and just say the cpu failed to achieve that oc so nothing to really be worried about also if it ever doesn't post you can reset the bios easily enough and everything will be fine... i've failed a lot of OC's i've even severely undervolted my cpu on accident and my bios wouldn't post... voltages are the one thing to be really careful with everything else i wouldn't worry to much about have some fun play around with stuff i'd be happy to answer any questions if you run into any problems

btw optimized is probably slightly OC'ing your cpu it's probably like an 8-10% oc nothing major

~ Mark

Is the default software for temps the best? Or is there something different I should use?

Temp monitoring software is really personal preference I use hardware monitor by cpuid but you can use whatever you like best

Using Celsius Scale what temps should I kick the fan on? Default setting is what I am using, Its set to full speed at 50c is that right?

that works but if it were me and my system wasn't reaching that threshold during load i would reduce the threshold probably to around 40-45C so that it would kick up to max when i was gaming etc.

It runs Idle at 33c after some gaming the hottest I have seen is is 48 c.

okay so my system right now is idling at around 37C at 4.1GHz, Phenom CPU's are rated safe up to 70C and i usually see temps of around 60-65C under full load after an hour or two

from what i read AMD says the max temp for an FX cpu is around 61C but i've read tons of reviews where people sit around 65C and are still safe

Is overclocking the CPU make that much of difference?

Any other information you can send my way would be greatly appreciated. I have overdrive installed. There was another program on the motherboard disk. It wont install. Googled it, Seems like I need to flash the bios to get it to work. BUT!! With the same motherboard, others claim they are bricking there system with the bios flash. So I WON'T be flashing the BIOS unless I have to.

first you probably won't notice any difference if all you are doing is gaming... sure if you run a benchmark utility you will see the numbers increase but it probably wouldn't be noticable to the naked eye.

I have oc'd with overdrive before it seemed a little clunky to me and I didn't like it a whole lot I was able to hit about 3.8 stable on overdrive from the stock 3.2 not to high I know i much prefer just OC'ing with the BIOS instead of overdrive but again its totally up to you

not that i've seen, most use PM's

i'm doing just fine with my AMD quad core its liquid cooled with a closed loop system like yours and its OC'd to 4.1GHz atm i have AMD cool n quiet installed so it underclocks and undervolt the cpu when it doesn't need much power

its plenty fast

Changing the cpu on a self contained liquid cooler is as easy as doing it with a fan cooled system

testmy.net's test doesn't use flash it uses javascript and ajax

Buntz is pretty knowledgable on liquid cooling maybe he'll chime in and answer questions you might have about the maintainence etc congrats again don't throw out the new BF3 graphics on that are amazing

no joke bet she wanted her laptop back!

lol i love the part where he talks about how many years she'll be grounded!

If the "One Moment... I'm Initializing Your Connection" stays up you must not have javascript turned on in your browser. Return your browser to default settings and you should be able to run the tests just fine.

I just ran a test on my test bench using Windows 7 Home Premium and Internet Explorer 9, ran just fine for me.

​The tests work great in IE but I recommend Firefox or Chrome -- simply put, they're just better browsers.

working fine here in chrome

Damn, I was hoping for 100/25 or something cool like that.

Guess I need to reboot my modem to get the new settings.

i was too man! i had a feeling it would be something small... i still had my hopes though lol

mannnn.... they skimped out for sure

the speed increase is 62/6 how odd

i really hate how we have the same upload speed as the tier below us >.>

I wanted to speak about the choices. I like the choices. Some times because of a routing problem. I am not able to get a good read from Dallas. It has nothing to do with the server. When I find that I use DC and it usually winds up what I am expecting. The same for Seattle since I am on the west coast. It gives me alternatives to show me that something is going on. Dallas seems to give me slower reads. I did Tracerouts of it. It shows I have lousy routing from here to Dallas. Therefore slower reads. I don't seem to have that with D C or Seattle. My Pings are better to them and my jitter is better to them.

happens to the best of us, every now and again i get routing issues aswell

well, if it isn't the guy with the crazy long username. I've seen you testing before.

Your connection looks pretty sweet, looks like you're getting what you're paying for

haha yeah i have too, it always makes me think of your location when i see him testing

Maintenance Done,back to Folding.

nice rig man

this post is just fine your can start a new thread if you don't know what forum it fits under just throw it under general thats what i always do

I'm still debating in my head about that... I really want the main server to remain the benchmark. I'm nowhere near that server and I'm able to get a great, stable connection. Other people should too, as long as their providers are delivering what they say they are. The mirrors, are there to provide alternate locations to make sure routing to the main server isn't an issue.

... this just gave me an idea. I'll get back with you on that...

lol yeah i thought about that too but then again all the servers are a great benchmark they are all top notch

I just switched to a Motorola SURFboard SBG6580. Result:

Ubee modems suck.

Oh, I meant that that was the only one Timer Warner Cable (my ISP) was offering with DOCSIS. The tech guy that just left my place told me they started getting Motorola's because of Ubee problems.

nice improvement man! glad you got it all sorted

CA3LE not sure if you've already thought of this or if it's already implemented but you should have the persons first visit here auto detect which server is closest to them and test from that

just a thought

~ Mark

i love chrome atm its my flavor of the week lol, i just wish they had it on the android platform

Found testmy.net when I started to question other test sites' results. I've been having download speed drop-off problems for months, now. Seemed to be better since the tech came out last week, but went nutty again tonight. So they're sending a tech out for probably the 8th time again...

But thanks for providing the servers and resources for this! I really appreciate it!

Welcome to the site becerdin, we've all been down that road a time or two i'm sure i hope you get it sorted and i'm with you on that one CA3LE has been and still is providing an excellent service here

~ Mark

interesting. i have an Ubee DD3611W that came with the internet service (DOCSIS 3.0, and apparently this is the only one that supports it.) it is about 6 months old, but you might be right about the problem. recently i was told by my ISP it was behaving erratically because it took so long to acquire a signal after restarting it. i'm gonna look into that. i'll call time warner (my ISP)

thanks!

never heard of that brand before, definately not the only modem that supports docsis 3.0

i'm using the Motorola Surfboard 6120 Docsis 3.0 modem, cisco also makes a docsis 3.0 modem which is the one cox tries to push on people i much prefer my Motorola modem though it can be picked up at bestbuy for about $110 and is probably one of the more reliable modems i've ever used

~ Mark

Ask CA3LE 5mbps upload just isn't enough