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<blockquote data-quote="datfreak" data-source="post: 964681" data-attributes="member: 19079"><p>I received all my gear!</p><p>Spent a lot of time last night working on it.. Stupid annoying things like:</p><p>1)windows 8 had to be reactivated by phone - the first windows worker hungup on me after I'd read out my 80ish digit code. Took 30+ min to activate.. no wonder people use "other" ways to do this.</p><p>2)My ADSL line is reduced to about 10kps due to line damage from a storm 3 weeks ago. Took 4-5 hours for mediaportal to download and install its support files. At the end I gave up and used my phone ($$$ downloads) to tether.</p><p>3) Tvserver kept crashing and freezing MePo--- took a long time to work out it was because the tuner sticks were in the USB3 slots.. Put them into the old usb2 slots and all good.</p><p>4)Kept getting errors and didn't realise win 8 does "quick boot" which is like hibernation.. So a reboot does not cure incorrect settings.This is a setting in advanced power management.</p><p> </p><p>The good</p><p>- the ssd is very fast - boot , button press to "ready to go" desktop in ~ 10secs(I will time and edit in tomorrow the exact time)</p><p>before I had installed the chipset drivers and while downloading mediaportal files(slowly!!) it benchmarked at read 440 mb/s and write 125 mb/s. I will run it again when I have it sorted. - kinda freaky that the benchmark test itself has a warning about wearing the drive if it is run to often.</p><p> </p><p>-resume from standby almost instant.. I had to change the tuner settings (preload and pause) but after resume there is very little pause before live TV can start, this was about 70 seconds on the old system.</p><p>-I used RAMdisk, for some weird reason it only let me use 2048meg but that enough for timeshifting, working very well so far. The gui is simple to use.</p><p>-I have offset the CPU voltage to -0.05, its down to .8 something at idle. I will lower it more soon.</p><p>-The new intel system is nearly silent..Even with the crappy std intel heatsink. Touching the HS is does not even feel warm. I did use artic silver 5 on this though.</p><p>- The Asus board has a nice layout - esp without any GPU card.</p><p> </p><p>I will update this soon (i need more time in the day).. My power meter seems to have gone missing, when it is found I will post power consumption of the new system.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="datfreak, post: 964681, member: 19079"] I received all my gear! Spent a lot of time last night working on it.. Stupid annoying things like: 1)windows 8 had to be reactivated by phone - the first windows worker hungup on me after I'd read out my 80ish digit code. Took 30+ min to activate.. no wonder people use "other" ways to do this. 2)My ADSL line is reduced to about 10kps due to line damage from a storm 3 weeks ago. Took 4-5 hours for mediaportal to download and install its support files. At the end I gave up and used my phone ($$$ downloads) to tether. 3) Tvserver kept crashing and freezing MePo--- took a long time to work out it was because the tuner sticks were in the USB3 slots.. Put them into the old usb2 slots and all good. 4)Kept getting errors and didn't realise win 8 does "quick boot" which is like hibernation.. So a reboot does not cure incorrect settings.This is a setting in advanced power management. The good - the ssd is very fast - boot , button press to "ready to go" desktop in ~ 10secs(I will time and edit in tomorrow the exact time) before I had installed the chipset drivers and while downloading mediaportal files(slowly!!) it benchmarked at read 440 mb/s and write 125 mb/s. I will run it again when I have it sorted. - kinda freaky that the benchmark test itself has a warning about wearing the drive if it is run to often. -resume from standby almost instant.. I had to change the tuner settings (preload and pause) but after resume there is very little pause before live TV can start, this was about 70 seconds on the old system. -I used RAMdisk, for some weird reason it only let me use 2048meg but that enough for timeshifting, working very well so far. The gui is simple to use. -I have offset the CPU voltage to -0.05, its down to .8 something at idle. I will lower it more soon. -The new intel system is nearly silent..Even with the crappy std intel heatsink. Touching the HS is does not even feel warm. I did use artic silver 5 on this though. - The Asus board has a nice layout - esp without any GPU card. I will update this soon (i need more time in the day).. My power meter seems to have gone missing, when it is found I will post power consumption of the new system. [/QUOTE]
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