Lately ive replaced my K7N2 nforce2 board for another gigabyte 7N400-L.
It came with the Realtek NIC onboard, which at first did annoy me, but since I dont hammer the LAN too much, its ok.
Earlier I noticed invisible (i.e. no processes) CPU usage of 15-25% when 1mbit~ of data was passing the network.
Flicked into device manager as I remembered how the nForce ethernet allowed CPU cycle saving, and noticed there's an "optimal performance" mode. So I set that as you'd expect.
Also noticed that you could enlarge the recieve buffer to 64KBytes. Did that too.
CPU util has now dropped to just background noise (0-5% variable) when downloading @1mbit/s ....
But why didnt realtek bother setting these in the first place? Kind of annoying as I got the drivers directly from realtek.
Just a little note of warning for anyone else who's wondering...
It came with the Realtek NIC onboard, which at first did annoy me, but since I dont hammer the LAN too much, its ok.
Earlier I noticed invisible (i.e. no processes) CPU usage of 15-25% when 1mbit~ of data was passing the network.
Flicked into device manager as I remembered how the nForce ethernet allowed CPU cycle saving, and noticed there's an "optimal performance" mode. So I set that as you'd expect.
Also noticed that you could enlarge the recieve buffer to 64KBytes. Did that too.
CPU util has now dropped to just background noise (0-5% variable) when downloading @1mbit/s ....
But why didnt realtek bother setting these in the first place? Kind of annoying as I got the drivers directly from realtek.
Just a little note of warning for anyone else who's wondering...
