I will say OS X. Windows 10 received some modern GUI updates a few years ago as part of Microsoft's initiative to rebrand its image and promote Office 365. But since then, there hasn't been any substantial improvement. But it's still an incohesive and incohesive experience. Windows has old programm...

i'm sad to

but if you have money,

ssd is the way to go,

seasonic fanless

nofan on an amd apu not sure if nofan works with am4

its now reported apple switch again from intel to arm perhaps cisc can get higher performance than risc but intel cisc cannot touch arm risc low power consumption which is what apple probably wants along with full control over the entire ecosystem will u buy an apple arm ? it would run windows under...

They are both worse. ;) What do you mean by advanced? There's so much more than the bare tech involved. And even if we narrow it down to only tech it's still a pretty hard question to answer. Why do you care? im using windows 7 i am thinking of learning clover efi bootloader to boot on an an nvme o...

the asus p5k disk says vista when i run it in compatibility it still crashes. i prefer using speedfan which worked perfectly on msi 975 and gigabyte dsr3, doesnt work well on asus. bios seemingly only works with cpu fan and chasis fan 1, but not the other 2 fan headers. ami bios is far different fro...

sus for a long time have done practices that affected me, specially bios fan control and their restrictions and policies, fake 4pin pwm headers, their so called asus way of measuring cpu temps, and their boalted AI Suite funny i'm learning about this right now the only new and affordable under 70 s...

not too long ago i asked about powerpc vs intel i also asked about itanium so here i ask what is more advance technology wise os x or windows 10 ? has os x stagnated? IMO i grew up with windows 95, so i still prefer 7 since os x is based on next step and next step was supposed to be this object orie...

Abula wrote:there are others like Biostar and Supermicro that has started to make consumer mobos. I do miss Intel, Abit and DFI.

yeah me to i actually owned a dfi

what happened to abit and dfi? bankruptcy?

which of the 4 msi asrom gigabyte asus is highest quality? asus seems most expensive

is there only 3 msi gigabyte and asus left? There is Asrock of course. Also EVGA and ECS Elitegroup make motherboards. what happened to the others? with soitek when i was playing a game it suddenly turned off after working for 2 years, and it never turned back on. didn't know what happend to the bo...

I think the decline of this site's popularity happened for several reasons: 1) Less people use desktops 2) Increased energy efficiency = less noise 3) Improvement in quality of PC parts (in aggregate) 4) Improvement of quality control of PC parts (the companies that offered inferior products went o...

pci e lane management reminds me of IRQ of yore.

back in the day i had to figure out IRQ's

i kinda forgot just vague memories of dip switches jumpers and autoexec.bat and config.sys files

PCI-Express lane management is still necessary even with the latest generation of Asus (and other makes) Intel Z370 boards. On your particular board it was designed to be AMD Crossfire compatible. So if both the PCI-E 16x slots were occupied with AMD graphic cards it would auto-select 8X speed for ...

I just recently purchased a ASUS p5k to replace both my msi 975x and gigabyte p35 dsr3 both died. P5k works. one issue i discovered is the intel p35 has 16 lanes directly connected to the north bridge the Intel I/O Controller Hub 9 supports 6 lanes 2 lanes are used, 1 lane for gigabyte ethernet port...

hi yall

i've looked at KAOS distro bc i like the idea of being pure 64 with legacy jetison. not sure if it works with bios.

EWN64 wrote:Hi, my cup of tea is Linux

which distro?

lodestar wrote:At least you have been spared the "delights" of Windows 8 and 8.1...

looks too much of a deviation of windows xp

windows 10 looks kinda confusing to me but i've heard enterprise is closer to xp and 7

do you have any experience with clover efi bootloader?

Asus don't list any Windows 10 drivers for the P5K. Despite that some users of early Asus boards report that Windows 10 installs all the necessary drivers. i was able to install 10 without any problem once installed i had no clue where anything one. 7 everything is like xp which is like 98 which is...

i want a 10 that looks like 7 as closely as possible. if i cannot install 7 that is. Just go with a standard sata ssd and install windows 7, you really wont be missing anything. I feel you think you will be losing a ton going with Sata, and its not like that at all, yes if you have the opportunity ...

The Asus P5K is definitely what is now called a Legacy BIOS. Bearing in mind that the latest BIOS update available for it is over 10 years old the BIOS clearly dates to a considerable time before UEFI appeared. So it can't be updated. Clover EFI and Duet are presumably designed to load a software-b...

is there a 2tb limit for ssd as boot drive like there is for hard drives, for MBR? This is what Microsoft have to say on the subject . As far as SSDs go, take your pick. Samsung's Evo 860 is a popular drive but there are alternatives. Most SSD manufacturers also offer freedownloads of utility softw...

btw does the asus p5k use legacy bios or uefi not clear to me it is definitely AMI which is different from what msi and gigabyte use. if legacy bios, can it be updated to uefi? i know that clover efi and duet offer something like uefi but doesn't modify the bios i'm looking over duet 50 lines of ins...

The Asus P5K has 2 PCI-Express 16X slots. On most current motherboards using both of these slots would reduce speed to 8X but I'm not sure this is the case with the P5K. It's possible that using both would drop the speeds to 16X + 4X. The adaptor you are proposing to use specifies 4X PCI-Express 3....

asus p5k uses sata2 and intel p35 and ddr2 which is why i bought it, it has everything i need do you know anything about clover efi? apparently i can somehow install clover efi on legacy bios pci adapter nvme card onto the m.2 and somehow it allows installation of windows 10 on m.2 on pci e or windo...

i find windows 10 and office 207 with ribbon and onward incomprehensible I prefer windows 7 and office 2003 Windows 7 is starting to lose support, and will very likely get worsen as times goes by, my suggestion si move on, Windows 10 is the fastest and more secure windows to date, its not perfect a...

akm wrote:If you C2D-era CPU, you likely won't be able to boot from NVME drive, even if you put one on an adapter. SATA SSD makes more sense, do you have any SATA3-ports on motherboard?

asus p5k is sata 2 i believe.

yeah i've wondered if i will be able to boot from NVME. ever heard of clover EFI?

The only real gain you will have with NVME is if you need sequeantial writes/reads, like heavy editing. For everything else, you wont be able to tell them apart on a blind test, you see, what an SSD brings to the table is given by its design, not by the interface, the 0 latency super resonsive feel...

:D my asus p5k has a legacy bios. there is a program called "Clover EFI bootloader" https://sourceforge.net/projects/cloverefiboot/ which claims to allow legacy bios to install nvme pci adapters and then a m.2 ssd. i would also have to figure out how to configure the second 16x, it seemingly only al...

I am familiar with that type of case. The one change you could make is to fit a PWM exhaust fan using a PWM Y cable to run it from the CPU header. From your local PC store the cheapest PWM fan should be around $15 and a PWM Y cable around $5. So for $20 this setup will give an exhaust fan which wil...

btw do i have to worry about overheating if the only fans is a PSU fan 120mm, a cpu fan, and 1 case fan? Using Asus motherboard thermal fan control there will be a set CPU temperature, normally around 70-75Cm, where all fans will be set to run at full speed. The Core 2 Duo CPU in your motherboard w...

This thread from win-raid.com may help . Agreed the benchmarks for NVME drives are impressive but I do wonder whether in actual use under Windows there is that much difference in speed between NVME and SATA SSDs. And if that's the case is all the potential hassle with Clover EFI really going to be ...