Unless you’re using an old ass computer (2000’s) you shouldn’t need to mess with IRQ’s at all. Do you have a spare NIC you can toss in? can you borrow one?
Well you could use another PC as well I suppose, but I was recommending adding a $20 network card or borrowing one. NIC = network interface card. The idea is that the NIC won’t be directly connected to the PCIe bus so if the connection is the problem we’ll eliminate that possibility by using a different NIC. Just a thought.
If it is running slow does a reboot correct the issue for a while?
What happens if you boot the computer into safe mode with networking?
Mint 15 would be a great choice to install on the metal to a partition however the live USB version does not support proprietary (binary) drivers. You would have to install Mint and then update your drivers.
As a sysadmin who uses Mint on my home workstation, I have nothing but great things to say about it. So if you wanted to take the plunge and carve out a partition for it I would say go for it…
Manjaro was going for “ease of use” over strict open source ideology when they made their live distributions so they do come with proprietary binary drivers installed on the live .iso.
Now if you ask me… a Linux partition is a great thing to have. If Windows ever decides to blow up, you will have another working system to use to repair it/continue whatever it is you do.
Mint isn’t yet up on the latest release of Ubuntu which it is based off of. (this basically means slightly newer software and kernel). If you want to install mint to a partition…
Fire up the live distro
open a terminal and type ‘sudo gparted’
you should see you hard drive in a drop down list in the upper right hand corner. Linux naming convention does not use drive letters instead everything is mounted in a directory tree off of the root directory so you HD will likely be /dev/sda
/dev/sda1 will probably be a small windows boot partition and /dev/sda2 will likely be your main Windows partition.
grab the slider from the right hand side and make some free space… 20 gigs is a good minimum but if you have more to spare then 50 gigs is a good number.
The next part can go two ways depending on how you want the system to boot. I recommend chain booting so that the windows bootloader sends the boot sequence to grub (linux bootloader). If you install grub on your new partition and not the root of the drive, you will have to go into windows later and use easybcd to add an entry to point to linux (really simple)… if you install grub to the root of the drive grub will give you a menu at boot to choose between windows or linux.
For the sake of simplicity I would say to go with the latter which is the installer’s default config.
So anyway run the installer and follow the instructions. When you get to the portion where asks you to prepare disks, choose advanced
you will then go to a windows similar to the partitioner
make the new partition of the ext4 file type and under mountpoint select “/” which in Linux is the root directory. From there just click next to the end, reboot and you are almost done.
Once you reboot look for a menu option that says drivers. There is a search box in the menu so you can just type drivers. This will identify your video card and suggest drivers for it. Usually the one marked “recommended” is a bit old so you might want to go with the higher version numbers.
The process might seem a little daunting if you haven’t done it before but in the end you will have a backup system that is immune to viruses and you check out a nice and popular Linux distro 
Edit: /r/linux and /r/linuxfornoobs are full of extremely skilled and helpful people. If you have other questions I’d fire it off to /r/linuxfornoobs and you will probably be answered extremely quickly. Good luck and happy hacking.
well I guess you can try to test and start eliminating stuff.
I would uninstall all graphics drivers with an uninstall tool. Put the old gpu back in and reinstall those drivers and see if the internet issue persists. Then you can install the new gpu with drivers but leave the amd drivers alone. Of course this should be done only if you are for certain it’s not your Internet acting up.
You also didn’t answer my other suggestion about testing your issues in safe mode.
Can you ping Google or yahoo in cmd?
And I appreciate the want to help from you guys.
Ah what I meant was(nothing bad), you don’t have to talk to me like a newbie about it, it might speed up the whole thing, if possible 
Hmm yes, I have tried all 4, it’s an XFX, bought in november 2009!
Oh, I thought of using another PC since I don’t have a card laying around, and a different motherboard is like another NIC right? :o I’m installing Linux now to see if it’s software related.
Reboot does not help, safe mode seems to be helping for now(it’s running fine for about 5 mins now).
Thanks for taking the time to write this, it’s been sitting here for a while now, about time i installed it, and hey, the gpu/wifi combo might even work nicely. That’s what I’ll do then… but tomorrow. Way too sleepy to do it now. Anyway, thanks for the help, I’ll update ASAP.
Sorry, am in safe mode with the “faulty” 4770 right now, it seems to be fine atm. Ping to google is 11ms, yahoo is at a lovely 200ms, heh. I doubt it’s my ISP, since the time between changing from the 4770 to the 8670 was really short, and I have done it a few times already.
No problem. I have to ask many specific questions because I am not physically in front of the PC to inspect it. I would ask these questions in my head and take a peak for my self with minimal user input. It’s just apart of the process of narrowing the solution down. I understand how it feels to have to have working knowledge of something, just to have someone talk to me as if I do not. Still, I dare say I’m not talking to you like a newbie at all. Again, your average user knows how to walk away from the PC and it “shuts it self off”, much less know the difference between hibernate, shutdown, etc. They do make a difference in why this problem is happening though!
Alright so you bought the HD 4770 in 2009, but said “it came with the 6800K” which came out pretty recently. Are you using a newer mother board and reusing the GPU? How recently did this all start happening to you?
It’s heat.
I’d put odds on someone putting the heat there. Just a guess.
So it’s most likely a software issue. Boot in normal mode and run msconfig. This will allow you to control what software starts when the computer boots. Start with Diagnostic Startup and if that works slowly add groups of services and programs until you find what service or application is causing the issue.
Hmm my mistake then, the 6800K, the motherboard and the ram were all bought fairly recently, the 4770 has been added after that(from an older PC). it started… about a few days after i put the 4770 in.(2 weeks after i bought the 6800K, MB and the RAM.) it has been bugging me for around a week and a half - two weeks.
Putting the heat there? If… you mean temps then the CPU is at around 35C, gpu is around 45C, hdd around 30C.
Alright, at this point I could only think of three things
This is an unpreventable anomaly due to some incompatibility between the 4770 and the FM motherboard.
There is not enough power being distributed by the PSU to share between all of your components, the CPU, and GPU. Perhaps the USB dongle is the only device showing signs of suffering?
There is a conflict between the 6800K and the 4770. The 6800K has a Radeon HD 8670D built in, as it is an APU.
At this point, using the 6800K as your main graphics driver would be the best solution. For comparisons sake, the 4770 can play crysis 1 with playable (so and so) frame rate, while the 6800K (Radeon HD 8670D) can play games like battlefield 3 and crysis 3 and pretty good frame rates. Unless your intentionally don’t want to use the 6800K for your display (Are you mining bitcoins? do you do 3D design and rendering?) there really isn’t a better reason to use the 4770 over the 6800K.
My RAM is at 1333MHz, so the APU does not really work that well I’m afraid, I can run War Thunder on the lowest with around 75FPS, CoD MW2 at around 50 or so, Bad Company 2 is on 20. And that’s where the 4770 comes in! And I don’t mine bitcoins.
I guess you are right, but I’m going to my brother’s place to test the 4770 on his(which is in fact mine!) PC. Hm, I’m not really sure if the USB is the only thing to be going bad, but the sound works alright, video is fine too(including games), the CPU works normally.