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New A64 System not performing well...

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Yellowsnow17

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As the title says, I just built a new system and the performance is actually worse than the machine it replaced.

Old Machine:

P4 2.6C
Abit IC7-G
9800pro 128MB
1GB Corsair XMS PC3200 (256X4)
WD 74 Gig Raptor

New Machine:

A64 3000+ Venice
Asus A8N SLI Deluxe
6800 GT 256MB
1GB Corasair XMS PC3200 (256X4 from old machine ^)
WD 74 Gig Raptor (from old machine ^)

Now the game I am playing is World of Warcraft. On my old machine it would take about 5-10 seconds from when I entered the game to when i could actually start walking around. This was due to the game loading information into RAM. (upgrading to a gig from 512 confirmed this.) With the new A64 system this lag time has at least doubled. Furthermore, I get random lag in highly populated areas where the game will stall for 3-5 seconds. This never used to happen with my P4 system. Now I know that the A64 and 6800GT are far more powerful than my old rig so what is the deal? No other software is installed and I have the latest chipset and video drivers. I've tried reformatting twice now and the lag has not changed. Any ideas?
 
...is this a clean install of windows?
..are you using the onboard nic? ..if you have 2 onboard nics , which one are you using? (nvidia or marvell)
 
ThreeDee said:
...is this a clean install of windows?
..are you using the onboard nic? ..if you have 2 onboard nics , which one are you using? (nvidia or marvell)
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1) Yes, clean install (twice now)
2) I am using the onboard Nvidia NIC, the marvell NIC is disabled in BOIS
 
Try it with only 2 sticks of RAM and set the timing to 1-T and see what happens. 4 sticks with a 64 bit can actually slow things down a tad.
 
BillR said:
Try it with only 2 sticks of RAM and set the timing to 1-T and see what happens. 4 sticks with a 64 bit can actually slow things down a tad.
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With and AMD64..
 
..with nvidia nic I get timeouts here and there and/or slow loading of pages (but not consistantly)
I get better performance/consistancey with my marvell nic ..that's just my experience anyways ..maybe slow loading is fault of nic (dono , dont play wow or know exactly what it requires for quick loading if nic is part of that or not)
 
nvidia nic runs on-chip, thru the pcie bus. the marvel runs on the pci bus(33mhz) so is limited by speed, other devices and possible irq probs. someone will have to explain to me how marvel "gigabit" ethernet can run on a 33mhz bus.

very truly yours,
politenessman
 
update...

So last night I took out 2 sticks of ram leaving 256MB in each of the other two slots. I also set the timing to 1-T (what does this do by the way?). The game still runs like crap. I had 400MB RAM free while doing nothing in windows. While running Warcraft I had 20MB RAM free and 700MB of paging file usage. I still had a lot of lag but this was clearly because of the lack of sufficient RAM.

I ordered 2 x 512MB of Crucial Ballistix RAM this morning which I'll replace the Corsair stuff with. This will allow me to test 1 gig of RAM while occupying only 2 memory slots. Hopefully this will get the peformance up to where it should be.

If the RAM thing doesn't pan out, my next stop is the onboard NICs...
 
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