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Weird behavior in new build

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Bomo

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I just finished the build in my signature, and the performance has been pretty amazing. My games run smoothly, my 2500k OC'd to 4.2 with absolutly no problems, but a few issues have popped up more recently that have me a bit weirded out.

The first thing I noticed was really spiky ethernet speeds. With my laptop hooked up to the same router, using the same cords (and slot) my internet is fine, but with this machine Chrome and Firefox are REALLY laggy. I'll click a link and it'll take about 10 seconds to get it to even start loading the page (which then loads very quickly).

My download speeds are fine (through Steam and uTorrent I still hit around the 7-12 megs per second), so I originally didn't think this was a hardware thing. But some kind of software/driver problem (so I did the usual bout of uninstal network driver, reinstall).

But then problem two popped up, which is that for about the past few days, every time I turn on the computer the Asus Bios Screen (ROG, red screen thing) takes a LOT longer than usual. It comes up quickly but then sticks around for 30 to 40 seconds before going into the normal windows boot stuffs. I'm thinking this latter one MAY be over clock related, or possibly boot order (though I have the SSD as my boot drive and the WD green just as a data drive, with SSD as the #1 boot device).

I'm going to go back to stock clocks in the BIOS to see if that fixes the boot up speed, but I am at a loss on the browser speed. It's to the point where I use the computer for only games, and my iPad or laptop for any network browsing (wouldn't be a problem if my laptop weren't a G73 titanic).

Any ideas?
 
the first issue sounds like a router problem to me. Try leaving the lapper unconnected and see what happens to the performance.
 
hossdaddy said:
the first issue sounds like a router problem to me. Try leaving the lapper unconnected and see what happens to the performance.
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I do leave the laptop unconnected, but the more I mess around with it, the more I'm sure it's the router. The problem is that my router's software (or w/e, the on-the-router stuff) is entirely in Japanese. I think I may have my sister ship me a WNDR3700 from the states and see if that helps.

My router is a Buffalo WZR-HP-AG300H, and it's been a beast for me up until now (I spent a good three days translating menus and changing stuff to get it the way I wanted, something I REALLY don't want to do again)

The boot thing is pretty much gone. I don't know what it was, didn't change anything, but when I got home today to turn it on and time it (to compare to the stock clocks) it went much faster than I remembered.

I guess I'll just chalk that one up to jittery new-build overzealousness. The internet I can live with for a week or two. Wifi works fine on my other devices (I might see if I can find a USB wifi adapter and see if that works temporarily).
 
I know that back in the 775 socket days, when my overclock was off, the ethernet cut out. When you return to stock clocks, see if your ethernet issue is still there.
 
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