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Petlydecker · 05-25-2006, 11:23 AM

Hello,

I am asking a question relating to performance. I previously had a Biostar M7NCD motherboard with a AMD Athlon 2100+, and over 700MB's of PC2700 memory. I just built a new system, Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 motherboard, AMD Athlon 3000+ 64 Bit, and over 1535MB's of PC3200 memory. The BIOS is running the chip at 1800MHz, correct speed and FSB. When I run a benchmark of the system chip and memory it comes in well above my previous system. It seems to me not to be much faster if not faster at all. I thought the move from the nForce 2 to 3 chipset, faster CPU (3000+, 64 Bit chip), and move to PC3200 from PC2700 would all mean better performance? I should mention I am running the same IDE, ATA drives, I did not want to go with SATA just yet (the board supports SATA). I would appreciate anyones input.

Thank you,

Peter

05-25-2006, 11:23 AM	#1 (permalink)
Petlydecker Registered User Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: RI, USA Posts: 126	Motherboard Performance? Hello, I am asking a question relating to performance. I previously had a Biostar M7NCD motherboard with a AMD Athlon 2100+, and over 700MB's of PC2700 memory. I just built a new system, Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939 motherboard, AMD Athlon 3000+ 64 Bit, and over 1535MB's of PC3200 memory. The BIOS is running the chip at 1800MHz, correct speed and FSB. When I run a benchmark of the system chip and memory it comes in well above my previous system. It seems to me not to be much faster if not faster at all. I thought the move from the nForce 2 to 3 chipset, faster CPU (3000+, 64 Bit chip), and move to PC3200 from PC2700 would all mean better performance? I should mention I am running the same IDE, ATA drives, I did not want to go with SATA just yet (the board supports SATA). I would appreciate anyones input. Thank you, Peter