Brett928S2 said:
Hi
Umm...you DID reinstall Windows after the new build ??
Please tell me you didnt just reconnect your OLD hard drive and go into windows ?
All the best Brett
cbrunnem said:
i have no facts either way but how would reinstalling windows affect this. windows is tied to the motherboard not the cpu... does changing the cpu have some affect on windows or something?
I had not reinstalled windows... Will this probably fix the problem?
I thought it wouldn't effect this as cbrunnem thought. So I didn't quite do this.
But if I must, I will reinstall windows ASAP.
smorizio said:
did you update your mb bios so that the bios has the newest cpu code??
x_x; I didn't do anything of the sort.
Are there any good instructions I could get to do this?
http://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/mb/introduction.php?S_...
I don't seem to see anything talking about updating CPU codes...
The BIOs does say under CPU Configuration that it sees the AMD Phenom II x4 965; so I thought it was reading it correctly without me having to do anything.
jaguarskx said:
Loading Windows and launching programs are more limited by the hard drive speed than the CPU unless you really have a slow CPU. So it is no surprise you did not see any improvement.
Most games are limited by the graphic card rather than the CPU... so if you install a faster CPU, you will not notice much of an increase in performance unless the game is limited by the CPU. Also, the vast majority of games do not use more than two cores.
Generally speaking, you should see better gaming performance with the PII X4 965 BE based on the following benchmarks.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/121?vs=102
Try downloading MSI Afterburner which allows you to see the FPS in games. It's a utility you can use to overclock the video card, but the HD 4000 series runs pretty hot so I don't recommend any overclocking for you. Just use it to compare FPS in games between both CPUs.
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Afterburner-2.0.0-Final-dow...
aaab said:
To be honest, the CPU doesn't play that bigger part in gaming.
With that video card I wouldn't expect that even your old cpu was a bottleneck... I'm not too surprised that you don't see any difference.
I keep reading that TERA specifically is more CPU intensive then normal, and lots of people seem to be bottlenecked by the CPU.
Also, even if it doesn't use all 4 cores in the game. That would mean that if I was running my game windowed, and I had a movie playing in the background... 4 cores would run that better than 2 cores right? If so, I don't notice a difference between the two processors with this either.
As I've said, the FPS decreased with the Phenom. Meaning, I was using a program to record the FPS. Fraps specifically.
Also, I said that I tried out my brother's video card as well.
He has Phenom x4 970; and 4Gigs DDR3 1333 of Ram. (Compared to my x965 BE, and 8 Gigs DDR3 1333)
His performance is VASTLY superior to mine. So I'm thinking its the processor. (Unless its for some reason the motherboard that is bottlenecking my performance)
So I'm not really asking if my GPU is outdated. I know it is, and I plan to upgrade that eventually.
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Reguardless of CPU usage in games though, I'm not complaining that my performance didn't go up 5000%. I'm complaining that
upgrading makes me perform
worse then my old Athlon.
So far with the answers I'm getting so far... I'm looking at reinstalling windows, or updating my bio's CPU codes?
If anyone could tell me how to update CPU Codes for my A880G+; or offer up new suggestions on how to fix this... I'd appreciate it!
Otherwise, I'm starting to backup things now, so I can reinstall windows if the CPU Code thing fails.