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glent2002

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hi all i recently posted about an upgrade from 512 pc133 ram to 1024 ddr 255 2x512 chips well i went for the upgrade ran for 5 days no probs till drumroll plz my pc locked up and would not boot up i chaged the psu to a more powerful 300 up to 400 no joy
change the mobo form pcchips m8525 to and asrock k7m2 with i must say is a nice board with some nice features check this out www.asrock.com
still no joy so kicked myself again and bought a new AMD 2000xp replacement tada satred up problem solved so i thought i cant help but feel i am not getting the max out of my hardware after many tweaks and adjustments my system speed is still slow and jerky im running winxp pro sp1 with all updates even after a cleand install and falshing the bios its still not seeming enough my dvd2svcd encoding with cce 2.5 vary form 1.1 to 2.4 no matter what source any ideas people! the main probs seem to be with demanding programs such as encoding games etc i would love to ditch xp but win2000 is a no go and as for 98 and winme need i say any more, screw that! cheers in advance Glent
 
roadworker

roadworker

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Maybe SiSoft Sandra Professional can give you some answers.....quite often the bottleneck of your system will be displayed when running this proggy...:)...
 
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scarecrow

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With Win2000 "a no go" you cannot hope for much... or you can sell all that hardware and buy a G4.
 
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LTR12101B

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If using the onboard graphics, try an AGP card, as the onbard graphics and the CPU compete for access to system memory - even just to keep the display refresh going. With DDR, I would not expect it to be so bad.

With a separate card, a KM266 should not be much different to a KT266, but running the onboard, it will perform worse.

And even a basic card like a Geforce4 MX is likely to completely blow away the onboard for performance - even the BEST onboard, of the Nforce 2, is only equal to the LOWEST 4MX.

Onboard graphics are a complete waste of silicon!
 
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scarecrow

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...and my Geforce4 MX440 was a complete waste of money.
For normal workstation usage an onboard graphics chip is just fine- and very cheap. Do I have to play 3D games just because I've got a pee-cee?
 
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LTR12101B

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Personal preference, I guess - and if you HAVE onboard graphics and they are adequte, then you may as well use them.

But usually, onboard graphics add to the cost of the board, so better to go for separates....

A friend got a cheap Athlon Xp2000+ system, with 512Mb RAM - but the RAM was PC133 SDRAM and the graphics were onboard.

My thunderbird 1200 with PC100 RAM feels faster - with a competent, cheap Graphics card - Geforce 2MX - you cannot spread the perfomance of 64bit SDRAM that thinly and get away with it - now with DDR, it should not be AS bad - although the setup cycle time of DDR is no better than SDRAM, only the burst rate is improved

The only good thing to be said for "Unified Memory Architecture", is that it may allow the processor access to the graphics memory at full system bus speed (if they don't waste time making it go in and out of the AGP BUS).
 
CyberMuZ

CyberMuZ

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Hey glent,

You are in quite a pickle. I have not worked with the Asrock boards before, but maybe that's because i have never heard of them. EECK!

Do yourself a favor. You should still be in your return period for the Asrock board. Take it back and get an MSI K7N2G-L or K7n2G-ILSR <--- if you want the real-time audio 5.1 encoding. It has an Integrated Geforce4 MX 440 class video processor that is strapped to the systems DDR ram instead of the MX 420's SDRam.
That should more than make up for the cost difference, plus it is using the nforce2 chipset that with your 2 DDR modules will go into 128bit memory bandwidth mode i.e. "SPEED". :)

This is also a well designed, fast and reliable motherboard. Of the 12 custom systems I have built on this board I have had only one go unstable and it was because of cheapy ram that the client brought me. I strapped on some Kingston ram and it worked beautifully.

If you have any questions PM me. i am more than happy to help.

Ciao
 
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