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Anonymous   10-01-2001 at 09:58:04 AM

Hi

On Friday I picked up a Elitegroup K7S5A, now I was expecting a real performance boost, what with people likening SiS's chipset to the second coming, but everything seems to be running slower, 3DMArk2001 scores 500 points lower than with my A7V and a slower processor??? Anybody got any tips on tweaking this mobo for some decent performance??

SPECz:

New System:
K7S5A
Duron 750
128MB 2100 DDR
Sound Blaster Live Value
IBM 30Gig 7200rpm UDMA100 HDD
Gigabyte GeForce MX
Intel Pro100+ nic
3DMark 2001 - +/- 720

Old:
Asus A7V
Duron 600
256MB PC133 Cas3 memory
Sound Blaster Live Value
IBM 30Gig 7200rpm UDMA100 HDD
Gigabyte GeForce MX
Intel Pro100+ nic
3DMark - +/-1200

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zwaarst   10-01-2001 at 10:40:19 AM
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Hi,

If you are running under win2000 you should add some extra memory. If you only have 128mb your computer will verry soon start swapping on de HD. This will result in a verry big perfomance hit.

I hope you have got those new parts for free, beceause if you only want a better score in 3Dmark2001 you should have got yourself an other graphiccard.

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<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by zwaarst on 10/01/01 10:44 AM.</EM></FONT></P>

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Anonymous   10-01-2001 at 11:01:43 AM
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I bought a PCchips M830LMR board three weeks before. It cost only HK$490(US$60). I flashed it with the ECS's K7S5A o/c Bios(because they are same oem product).
I choose fsb 138/138 and my TB1.4G o/c to 1.45G and work great !!
With the TB1.4G cost HK$890 and a kingston PC2100 DDR 256m ram (HK$340), I spend only about HK$1700(US$220) to upgrade the PC to almost a most powerful machine.
Then I also trying to change the fsb to 150/150, it boot to a speed 1600MHz and work well in DOS mode but randomly rebooted from windows me.
Anyway, I will try to short all the L7 bridge and try again.

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Ncogneto   10-01-2001 at 01:44:16 PM
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Why less Ram? Also, the k7s5a's performanced that you are hearing about is almost always aquired when using a 266 fsb t-bird, the performance increase when using a 2oo fsb chip will be negliable. Was this a clean install? do you have the latest bios and Agp drivers from SIS/ECS? What are your memory timings set to in your bios?

Video editing?? Ha, I don't even own a camera!

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Anonymous   10-01-2001 at 02:53:54 PM
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Thing is the 3DMark benchmark is from when I only had 128MB PC100 SDRAM, What I'm trying to figure out is why with a faster processor and DDR memory everything runs slower??? Its crazy!!!

And yes its a fresh install of Windows 98 SE and I'm running Detonator 14.61... I think ;-)


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Anonymous   10-02-2001 at 08:20:04 AM
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Got Detonator 21.81 and SiS AGP 1.06... Man!! What a difference. 3DMark upto 1720, all my games running a lot better. Thanks 4 the advice :)

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Anonymous   10-19-2001 at 12:29:35 AM
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That AGP 1.06 driver, could u email that to me?

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