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Unreal Engine supervisor at ModelFarm blasts 50% failure rate with Intel chips — company switching to AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X, praises single-threaded performance (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

IDK, I'm having a lot of trouble with my Intel Wi-Fi NIC: 3168NGW. I'm getting like 16mbps on Linux (I hear Windows works better), when I have an AC network. My USB dongle gets full speed though, so it works, but the PCI card just sucks.

It seems it's downgrading to A/B speeds instead of AC, which is weird. This is a new motherboard, and it seems I'm not alone. It apparently works fine, and there seems to be drivers available that fix it, but they're not part of the standard driver. I had to set a driver flag to disable wireless N to get any form of WiFi working on it, so the whole thing is messed up.

So this is only true for the higher end Intel NICs, the crap that comes with budget boards can absolutely suck. My NAS has the same chip and doesn't have the issue (much older kernel), so it seems to be a common, but not universal problem.