Wierd A7V Crap....

[Guest]

I have gotten into one wierd bitch-ass situation...
I have got an A7V mobo with an oc Duron 750@1000 and an AGP TNT2 m64 w. 32mb ram and i have got a (serious) problem... I was fooling around overclocking my processor and TNT2 and running quake3 demos to check improvements in framerate and the scores i got are truly mistifying at first i got a score of 26,7FPS with EVERYTHING optimized(1024*768 optimum ghraphics) witch is kinda bad actually and i was baffled by how small an impact the oc'ing on my processor had on the framerate. Then overnight the computer mysteriously [-peep-]-up. It has now entered a state of true slow-down and my framerates have dropped to 15,8FPS (OVERNIGHT magic... i guess). At first I thought 'WHAT The [-peep-] !?! -Damn crappy windose OS sucks!!'
coz i was sure it had to be some sort of software malfunction... coz really, what hardware mysteriously slows down overnight? hmmmm. after considering my options i reinstalled all graphics drivers and directx but nothing happened!!
Upon reviewing my A7V manual i stumbled upon a small footnote ASUS writes: 'Oc the processor may lead to ... and SLOWER SPEEDS' SLOWER SPEEDS!?!? what the funk is dat all about, can this statement be for real?? and how does this happen??? the 15,8FPS didnt change when I underclocked my processor again to 750Mhz so that suggests to me that there must be some sort of bottle-neck thingy going on or i have simply [-peep-] my TNT2 card up by oc'in it..
Plez help someone coz its no fun playing games at 15FPS!!!

 

[Lowlypawn]

I could use some more info on your system like memory and sound card.
Did u get the bios 1005c, Via’s latest 4in1 and promise’s ultra 100 ata drivers.
Then I would try is check the bios. Maybe u pushed your mobo to far and that BIOS defaulted back to 100 (not 133). Also try lowering the multiplier a smige and increasing the FSB. That will increase memory bandwidth (for example my system will run at 100X10 or 105x9.5, both = 1gig but the later gives me more performance) Also try tweeking the memory setting for less delay.
Last idea is maybe your sound card is hogging up resources. I read some where a mx300 was killing system performance, get the latest drivers for everything.

Good luck & Cya

 

[Guest]

I tried various things to improve the performance again on my system and i haven't found the exact cause to the mysterious overnight slow-down but after reinstalling the newest directx version off the net i got my old results again.... wierd [-peep-]. My ram is 128 MB PC133 and my soundcard is a soundblaster 128 I'm running at 10*103=1030MHZ right now.. I've tried to clock it at 9.5 * 105 but the computer freezes on me when i play games and use a lot of applications at once.
I'm not sure of what Bios ver. i have but my mobo is only 3 months old so im pretty sure it aint the worst version u could have.... Im gonna try to update ALL my drivers clock EVERYTHING and even defrag the SOB. i will post my results if they get better at all...

Its no fun playing games at 26.7FPS!!!!

Any suggestions would be welcome...

 

[Diemos]

"my mobo is only 3 months old so it can't be the worst bios I could have" This is totally false. Tech shops have the bad habit of putting the most recent bios on a mobo regardless of how it performs. If it wasn't a prebuild system than the bios could be up to 2 months older than when you bought it. Update your bios now or face the consequential low performance. Don't mean to be harsh but that's the facts. Hope this helps, Laterz.

"I yam what I yam!"