Does Ethernet Controller need Driver installation

Aristoc wrote: I didn't' mean to say there was some problem with the function of my PC. The only 'problem' was the  "!" exclamation in device driver and I didn't have any knowledge about what that was for. Once I received info above on how to search for that, I discovered it is only related to Turbo Boost Max. Once I installed TBM  the "!" disappeared.  Turbo Boost Max probably isn't going to be used for many of my programs. Maybe for video rendering.  Booting up time is so fast so fast ! Running smoothly. Thank you  to all on the forum for assistance on my build!

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Boot time is fast? Great, but most X99 board users complain about the slow start up time. That is normal for X99 systems. They are more complex than other mother boards, and the X99 chipset is borrowed from Intel's enterprise line of chipsets.

Turbo Boost Max 3.0 is a feature only found on Broadwell-E HEDT processors, like yours. When its driver is installed, you should see an icon for it on the Windows taskbar. If you click on it, a window will open that shows a list of the cores in your CPU.

TBM 3.0 somehow determines which cores are "stronger" and able to Turbo boost (Turbo 2.0, the standard type of Turbo) higher with greater stability than the other cores. The cores are listed in the order of best to worst core for higher OC Turbo boost levels. You can use that window to assign programs to use the best cores at higher speeds, or by default it assigns those cores to the "foreground" program, whatever program you are interacting with.

Kind of an odd feature, and who wants to know their CPU has "better" cores than the others? We hope they are all of the same quality. The implication of this feature is using a "Per Core" OC may be better than an All Core OC for Broadwell processors. That is, instead of all the cores at a maximum speed that is limited by one or more of the lesser cores, we can have a higher OC on some cores than a few of the others. I don't know if anyone has tested that theory, I keep forgetting to do that with my X99/Broadwell-E system.