XtremeConditions

Oh, so it's an actual ethernet card, not the port on the motherboard? At this point, you may just want to try and exchange the card then. I'm not sure if you did confirm that you tried it, but as said above, trying Ubuntu, etc would be a great test. Linux always seems really good with things like this. But assuming you're still under 30 day return, or very likely under manufacturer warranty, either of those could at least be an option. Better to exchange than hope it will suddenly work... It'll just be a bigger headache.

Yeah, probably not a bad idea. Actually, I'm moving in a couple of months, so it would probably be better to just order all my parts fresh and set up in the new place. I am looking for a nice case to upgrade to. I have a Chaser MK-I which is nice, but now I'm feeling something more glassy, but it seems like most tempered glass cases don't support optical drives and whatnot, so that's kind of an issue as well...

Seems like as bios updates have come out, Ryzen systems have become a little more stable, and it even seems like people have been able to overclock their Ryzen CPU's a bit more. But I guess I'm wondering if you guys foresee that improving further? Right now I'm running an FX-8350 and... I'm still relatively happy with it, but Ryzen seems like a massive upgrade. I've been looking at the Ryzen 5 1600 as a great value CPU, but at this point, I'm just not sure it's worth the upgrade just yet. Part of me just wants to upgrade, and part of me just wants to wait for 2nd gen Ryzen. I could go with an older Intel system, but again, then I have to upgrade twice w/ mobo and CPU and that sucks too... Pretty conflicted here. What do you guys think?

This may go against the average consensus, but it seems like, at least in my experience, that Windows 10 is really good with automatic installation of drivers, though I would install/update video drivers... You may want to re-install Windows and just let it do its thing. I've found on cheap usb wifi devices, they worked better and FAR more reliably when Windows installed whatever it wanted to. I always had an issue when I installed the included drivers (disk) for those particular devices. It seems like it would be the opposite, but things don't always work out the way we would like with drivers for whatever reason...

So I've been thinking about trying out a higher-end Nvidia card (mostly an AMD user), and so I went to hunt around for some 980Ti's, but they seem a bit overpriced. Should I be paying $350-ish for a 980Ti? Seems like the 1070 isn't much more, performs similarly, but uses significantly less powerful. It also seems like miners are driving up the price, as apparently Nvidia cards are better for mining than they used to be... If I were able to get a 980Ti for ~$300, should I jump on it? Or should I just make the leap to a 1070?