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Hello Paul,
The temperature of the proccessor during operation is about 50 C.
The drives are already in DMA mode.
kind regards,
Mark
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> In article <41699fbc$0$568$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>, "Markie"
> <geen000001@hotmail.com.nl.tk> wrote:
>
>> Hello
>>
>> A few days ago i bought a new PC with the following components:
>>
>> Asus P5GD1 mainboard
>> 400 Watt powersupply
>> P4 550 3.4 Ghz With HT
>> 4x 512MB Corsair DDR2 PC3200 memory
>> 200 GB Western Digital SATA HD
>> 160 GB Western Digital ATA IDE HD
>> 120 GB Seagate ATA IDE HD
>> Asus DVD writer (Double layer)
>> Aopen DVD drive
>> 128 MB Asus XT 600 PCI express videocard
>> 2 extra fans
>>
>>
>> The speed of this machine is not what I've been expected.
>> Next to this machine I have a P4 2.6Ghz (no hypertrading) and
>> 768 Ram.
>> The speed of the new machine is not as fast as the old one: it takes 35
>> seconds to boot Windows XP Professional (after the POST)
>> Booting on the old machine takes about 20 seconds (Win XP home).
>> On the two computers are the same programs, exept the OS.
>>
>>
>> My question is: what's wrong with this computer???
>>
>> I hope to hear from you soon,
>>
>>
>> kind regards from Holland,
>>
>>
>> Mark
>
> I would question whether boot time is a good metric. Perhaps the
> drives are not in DMA mode during the boot, and are being operated
> in PIO mode. It would be pretty hard to debug the thing during the
> boot interval, to find out the nature of the difference.
>
> One thing you have to watch for with the new processors, is
> thermally limited performance. There have been a couple of
> reports of processors that are operating at 70C, and if that is
> happening to you, the processor will enter thermal throttle mode.
> This reduces the processing rate, and can make your new computer
> slower than your old computer. I don't really understand why those
> particular processors were running at an elevated temperature - one
> thing that cannot be inspected, is whether there is thermal compound
> between the processor die and the heat spreader on the top of the
> processor.
>
> So, benchmark the old computer while the OS is running, and
> compare it to the same benchmark on the new computer. Super PI
> (ftp://pi.super-computing.org/pub/) is one benchmark you can use.
> 3DMark (futuremark.com/download) is another. Select a version of
> 3DMark that lines up with the level of hardware DirectX support in
> your video card. SiSoft Sandra is a third source of benchmarking.
>
> For stability testing, there is memtest86+ from memtest.org (a
> standalone bootable tool, from floppy or CD). There is also
> Prime95, from mersenne.org, for testing that the processor and
> the memory allow correct computing. I recently discovered I had
> bad RAM by using Prime95, even though memtest86 passed the memory
> as being good.
>
> The Prime95 "Torture Test" allows a 100% load on the processor,
> so is a way of validating the cooling system on the processor. If
> launched from Linux, multiple copies of Prime95 can be run, and
> by using two or more copies, you can even test Hyperthreading.
> Install Asus Probe or get a copy of motherboard monitor (MBM5)
> from mbm.livewiredev.com , to monitor temperatures. (For Linux,
> I used xmbmon and it supported the motherboard I was testing.
> It may not understand your new motherboard.) Since active
> development of MBM5 has ceased, Asus Probe is more likely to work
> correctly on a new motherboard. If you find the processor
> temperature reaches 70C while running Prime95, then you
> need to improve case cooling and processor cooling. Some people
> use water cooling for hot processors, but I haven't looked
> recently, to see if water blocks for LGA775 are available yet.
> I see there are several third party heatsink/fans that have come
> out, but none of them has impressed me yet (swifttech one looks
> pretty ordinary, there is one which is a tower and too heavy and
> big, and a third one looks to be no better than the Intel solution).
>
> So, first evaluate whether the computer is operating correctly
> and temperature remains below the thermal throttle threshold,
> before doing any serious benchmarking.
>
> Also note, that DDR2 PC3200 ram is slower than DDR PC3200 ram.
> You need to use faster DDR2 ram, to match or exceed the performance
> of DDR PC3200.
>
> I haven't been keeping up with the 915/925 platform, and it is
> possible Anandtech or Tomshardware has some info on the best way
> to set up one of these boards, including the best kind of ram to
> buy for them.
>
> HTH,
> Paul
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