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Does your Wifi work properly? If it does, I wouldn't try to fix something that isn't broken. This is just what I would do though. You could equally argue that you should install the official tp-link drivers.

Why does your monitor need drivers out of interest?
 
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Great thanks im ok then.

Can i ask a question about the drivers for my wifi card please. Its a tp-link card and the drivers on the website are only for windows 8. Do i go ahead anyway, or stick with the stock windows 10 driver that has loaded automatically?

Also my monitor drivers are on the AOC website as beta, non certified only. What would you do here?
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If it ain't broke .....

If your wi-fi and monitor seem to be working fine with the native Win 10 drivers, probably best to leave it be.
 
From what i gather, the monitor needs drivers to operate in freesync variable frequency mode up to 75hz. At the moment in windows the maximum i can select is 60hz.

The readme file with the driver says this:

This beta driver will allow a 35-75hz freesync range on your AOC monitor. However it is not a WHQL signed driver and you will have to disable driver signature verification on windows before installing it.




Im also not sure if the wifi is working properly. I did a test file copy from my home nas last night and was only getting about 4 Mb/s. The 300Mbps wifi adapter should equate to 37 Mb/s i believe. Could be a virgin router bottleneck though.
 
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Well you might need to use the beta AOC drivers for Freesync. However, you're currently using the iGPU aren't you? So this won't support Freesync anyway, so it's hard to test anything or expect drivers to work until you have a Freesync enabled GPU installed.

As for wi-fi, there's all sorts of factors at play with home network file transfers. What sort of speeds are you getting for online downloads? Have you done a broadband speed check?
 
Yeah broadband speed is 30Mbps on virgin which is normal. The 4 Mb/s was a measured file transfer from my nas. Ill look up possible options to change wifi channel.

Ive just realised my 30 Mbps broadband is 3.75 Mb/s so it could be that my broadband speed is being restricted by my wifi. Not sure what my virgin boadband speed should be- 50?


Edit - yeah looks like my broadband is up to 50 Mbps which would equal 6.25 Mb/s. There is a good chance my wifi is restricting this then...

I have an ethernet cable which ill try out tonight and see what happens. Ive had problems using the cable before though (used to get the orange light on the lan port which means there is a problem).
 
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Hard to say about broadband speeds. In my experience Virgin is highly variable depending on where you live. My sister gets 200 meg Virgin where she lives and often can get speeds close to this. Here I can only get 50 meg but all too often it can barely reach 5 meg and sometimes not even 2 meg. It's such a terrible service that I claimed a rebate ended up getting phone broadband with Plusnet which gives a steady 37 meg.

The best way to see if you have a wi-fi problem or a wider broadband problem is to use a wired connection. Not always easy depending on where your router is, but worth doing even if it means trailing a CAT6 lead through the house temporarily.
 
Just to check with you guys that this is performing as expected.

Just converting a 1.5Gb video from MKV to MP4.

Temps capped out at 51 degrees and frequency didn't go any higher than 3600 MHz. Conversion took about 7.5 minutes.


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Is there a utility I can use to see what my fans are doing?
 
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If everything is at stock, that's pretty good. The max turbo frequency of the 6600K is 3.9GHz, but when all 4 cores are being maxed out it'll run at 3.6GHz.

HWiNFO64 is what I use to monitor temps and fan speeds.
 
^^thanks.


Wifi speed update.

My wifi adapter is causing a bottleneck.

On wifi last night I speed tested the broadband at about 30 Mbps. On the LAN its 52 Mbps, the speed I should receive as part of my package.

Copying a 2Gb file from my home NAS, last night I was getting about 4 Mb/s over wifi. Tonight on LAN, 85 Mb/s!
 
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HWMonitor will tell you lots of useful info about your system, including fan speed (assuming they are connected to your motherboard).

As for the wi-fi, what band are you connecting to on your router, 2.4GHz or 5Ghz? Try switching between the two and also changing the channel.
 
The adapter I bought is only 2.4 GHz. I'll try another channel but I'm not expecting much tbh. I knew wifi would be slower than a LAN connection but I didn't expect it to be so slow as to be bottlenecking my internet.
 
Well, good wi-fi shouldn't be significantly slower than wired, certainly not by the amounts you're seeing. It might be a driver issue, or perhaps a PCIe issue - have you tried plugging the adapter into a different PCIe slot? Perhaps also ask in the networking section of the forums.
 
Anything to be bothered about?


On the wifi front, I found a setting in my virgin router where it was set to 144 Mbps instead of 300 Mbps. Changed this and I'm now getting 45 Mbps broadband speed and around a 7Mb/s file copy speed. So 50% better but still throttled, especially on the home server.
 
Guys.

My monitor came with a jack lead (i.e a headphone type connection). I'm not sure what to do with this. I appear to get sound out of the monitor via HDMI, but only if I deliberately choose to use the intel playback device. If I choose the realtek playback device I get no sound from the monitor.

Should I be using this lead somehow?


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I occasionally am getting a momentary black screen appear. Lasts about half a second or less before the screen reappears and everything carries on as normal.

Google has revealed that this is quite common but I cannot see a solution. Does anyone else have this issue and/or has solved it please?



I also want to ask about some novice overclocking.

The motherboard has 3 presets for the 6600k, (4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 GHz). I tried the 4.2 GHz today, changing nothing else apart from the preset in the BIOS. It worked, and the cpu montors are happily reporting the 4.2 GHz speed, however I have noticed that the fans are spinning up momentarily with every little CPU spike (even just browsing the internet I can hear the CPU fan spin up for a second).

I have read up quite a lot on overclocking the CPU, and have no reason to want to push higher than 4.4GHz but I don't want the fans to be cycling up and down all the time when the CPU is not being stressed? The temperatures do not appear to be spiking - sitting around high 20's with the CPU at idle and low 50's when under full load.

I'm also unsure on what to do with the voltage settings. Do I leave on auto or do I fix it at a value arrived at through trial and error? If auto, then how do I prevent the motherboard from incrementing to dangerous voltages - or will it just not do this on its own?
 
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