tyrz_939

Corsair K70 & Razer Deathadder 2013 mouse.

He is quite right and being nice about it. No need to insult, just make more sense and don't post incorrect information/reasons. Your wording and reasoning does appear to be very erratic at the moment. No 2011v3 i7 CPUs have an iGPU. 115x i7/i5 chips do.

It's not Xenon, it's Xeon. You can get high clocked ones. What features do you want on the Xeon that the i7 doesn't have?

What? Unless you need the features of a Xeon it's the same. The way I see it is having 2 quad cores gives more failure points than a single 8 core i7/Xeon, wastes power and costs more.

Don't run background processes that use CPU time? :mellow: Keep control of what your computer is doing yourself.

Isn't the network adapter working? Worst case, mount it's hard drive in another VM as it's second disk and copy the files like that, then boot back in to it OR live boot a linux distro and download SP4 to the hard drive that way.

Download it on another OS then use a network share to get it on the 2000 vm.

Easiest way would be a bootable ubuntu usb and format from command line or the partition editor tool (gparted?), you'll be able to delete the recovery partition too.

I don't like the spin up time so I leave mine on but in my server I let my backup drives spin down after 5 min so it's quieter (other drives in it stay on though). Just do what you want really. I hate how you can't give each drive it's own time in windows, so annoying. :angry:

Why not just make a LAMP server in a VM? More secure and it just works. I've only used XAMPP 1-2 times and it seems like a very bad idea to run it on your desktop computers host OS. If you are going to host your own site and it's small (not wordpress or drupal based) then get a raspberry pi. Silent, secure and low power.

The FX chips are great value if you need multithreaded performance on a budget. I was tempted to get one for my server but ended up not getting one due to power consumption. Now I wish I did because it's almost winter and I want a heater.

What will it be used for?

The gains aren't from dx12. If you got an fps gain going to 10 it would be for some other reason. Maybe a newer driver, game update etc.

If the game doesn't use dx12 it will just use an older version. So running a dx9 game would still be using dx9 and running a dx11 game would still use dx11. It just means it can use up to dx12.

I've had HWMonitor give me a BSOD before, it was when I tried updating in it so I went back to the older version. Current versions are fine for me though.