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very slow 2.8c

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Seraphim974

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so i have a system put together with my radeon 9800 pro and the Abit AI7 motherboard and my P4 2.8c processor at stock speed. well when i run aquamark, i only score 15k when i used to score 25k with my Athlon xp 1700+ at 1.5 Ghz. Am i missing an installation step somewhere? There has to be something big going on but i cannot seem to find out what it is and no one on the other forum seems to have any clue either. I am thinking that perhaps i even put the heatsink on wrong. it is very firm and secure but maybe there are air bubbles in my AS5, or do all processors run slowly when you first get them?
 
Yes, the ones off of the disc that came with the motherboard and then i found some slightly newer ones off of the Abit website for the chipset that i downloaded and installed and Aquamark 3 still runs like crap with low scores. it will be at 15 fps at the beginning of the loop and the rest of the way it will stutter at 8-9 fps. Very pathetic. I know that this stuff can do more. well, anyways, i RMAed the motherboard, CPU, and RAM to newegg and we'll try this again.
 
specs are as follows:
2.8c CPU
Abit AI7 mobo
Corsair 512mb pc3200
seagate 80GB 7200 RPM HDD
Radeon 9800 pro
430watt Antec truepower PSU
 
I have the chipset driver off of that website, the latest one. I also have 16x AF and 8x? AA, everything turned up as I always have, I don't bother to doctor my scores. I use the scores merely to find out if my hardware is performing as it should. Obviously the AA and AF will hit the performance but it should not take me down to 3 fps in Call of Duty as it did last night. This system should run above 3 fps.

Anyways, the stuff (mobo, cpu, ram) is going back to newegg and i will hopefully get a repair. I have a bad feeling that the same exact thing will happen again for some reason, but i don't know why. maybe i don't know as much about computers as I thought because i honestly could not think of anything that i didn't do. everything was up to date, all critical updates, SP1, all drivers (lan, audio, chipset, video, etc.) the heatsink wsa mounted correctly with AS5 and i even ended up remounting it but no improvement.
 
People like you make it hard for others to rma because you return pefectly good stuff because your so anal about it and don't want to attempt even turning down fsaa/aa.
 
but it obviously isn't the problem if i had AA and AF all the way up on my 1700+ and got higher scores sherlock. thanks for helping

btw, i never said that i didn't try turning it down. had been playing call of duty deathmatch on Pavlov and whenever i would look out into the open where Pavlov's house is i would drop to 2-3 fps. i am sure that AA and AF wouldn't be causing that.
 
Originally posted by Seraphim974
but it obviously isn't the problem if i had AA and AF all the way up on my 1700+ and got higher scores sherlock. thanks for helping

btw, i never said that i didn't try turning it down. had been playing call of duty deathmatch on Pavlov and whenever i would look out into the open where Pavlov's house is i would drop to 2-3 fps. i am sure that AA and AF wouldn't be causing that.
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All you do is try 1 set of updated drivers and call it quits and RMA all your shit???


:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: Some people I swear....
 
yeah, 1 updated chipset driver, the only updated set that was on the Abit website. does abit require some obscure 3rd party driver for their stuff to work or what? i got their latest INF driver from their website after the included INF driver didn't work well. it still performed poorer than my athlon 1700+ so i RMA'ed and will be getting my new stuff soon.
 
You are a moron!

Nothing is wrong with the hardware. Its a software (USER) problem. You can get all new stuff and if you dont properly install the software & drivers you're going to get the same results.

MY GUESS --- You didnt put a fresh install of WinXP!? LOL I dont see anything about that.

Anyway, what you need to do is:

1 - install WinXP
2 - install chipset drivers
3 - install graphics, sound, etc... drivers
4 - install all critical windows updates

Some say to reverse 3 & 4
 
btw, run 3dMark2001 (and maybe 2003) and post the link to it when you're done.

That might help us, help you figure out your problem.
 
Originally posted by chrisf6969
Nothing is wrong with the hardware. Its a software (USER) problem. You can get all new stuff and if you dont properly install the software & drivers you're going to get the same results.
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Yeah, either it is a software problem, or you have conflicts between hardware in your system. When I first put together my current rig, it ran like sh*t - it BSOD'ed and restarted often most of the time while I tried surfing the Web - until I found out that Windows XP tried to map my soundcard (which was in the next-to-bottom PCI slot) to the same IRQ as my video card! And most new videocards don't like sharing IRQs with any other busmastering device! Luckily, I solved that problem simply by moving my soundcard to a different PCI slot. It's now in the middle PCI slot, because the bottom PCI slot already shares the same IRQ as the integrated SATA controller.
 
thanks you two for not posting like !!!!!!!!s as i have experienced from every reply for the past week or so. E4g1e, that IRQ sharing stuff is interesting because the computer did have my radeon 9800 pro but it also had a generic 56k modem in, get this, the next-to-bottom PCI slot. hmmm, well when i get my stuff i will try it without the modem initially.

I do have another question that should be easy to answer: the driver disc that comes with the mobo has a RAID driver on it. If i do not have a RAID array, do i not bother to install this?
 
Originally posted by Seraphim974
thanks you two for not posting like !!!!!!!!s as i have experienced from every reply for the past week or so. E4g1e, that IRQ sharing stuff is interesting because the computer did have my radeon 9800 pro but it also had a generic 56k modem in, get this, the next-to-bottom PCI slot. hmmm, well when i get my stuff i will try it without the modem initially.

I do have another question that should be easy to answer: the driver disc that comes with the mobo has a RAID driver on it. If i do not have a RAID array, do i not bother to install this?
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No you dont need it.
 
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