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Please help me find my bottleneck!
I have an ASUS P4P800-VM with a 1.7GHz CPU and 1GB of PC3200 DDR-RAM.
I really don't think I'm getting the kind of performance out of my system, and was hoping someone here could help me find what may be slowing me down. I ran CPU-Z and posted the results at http://home.comcast.net/~goldspider/cpuz.htm. Not included in the CPU-Z report is that I also have a 120GB Seagate SATA hard drive and an ATI Radeon 9800 (128MB) video card. I suspect the problem may have something to do with the fact that the CPU/RAM FSB is only 100/133 MHz respectively. From what I have seen, it would appear that the CPU multiplier is locked at 17, forcing, I suppose, the FSB at 100 MHz. If I'm going to get everything running at 400MHz FSB, would I have to buy a new processor? And that's assuming that the bottleneck is in fact the FSB. Any advice would be most appreciated! |
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GoldSpider wrote:
I have an ASUS P4P800-VM with a 1.7GHz CPU and 1GB of PC3200 DDR-RAM. I really don't think I'm getting the kind of performance out of my system, and was hoping someone here could help me find what may be slowing me down. Where the bottleneck is will be highly dependant on what you are doing with your system. Ben -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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GoldSpider schrieb:
I have an ASUS P4P800-VM with a 1.7GHz CPU and 1GB of PC3200 DDR-RAM. I really don't think I'm getting the kind of performance out of my system, and was hoping someone here could help me find what may be slowing me down. Well, in what applications is the system slow? Have you run some (hopefully meaningful) benchmarks? I ran CPU-Z and posted the results at http://home.comcast.net/~goldspider/cpuz.htm. I understand the P4P800-VM has some kind of i865 chipset. Isn't that supposed not to support old Willamette core P4s like yours?! Not included in the CPU-Z report is that I also have a 120GB Seagate SATA hard drive and an ATI Radeon 9800 (128MB) video card. Both of which shouldn't really be sluggish. If I'm going to get everything running at 400MHz FSB, You mean FSB800 = 200 MHz FSB? would I have to buy a new processor? Yes. I'd look at a P4 2.4C or 2.8C. And that's assuming that the bottleneck is in fact the FSB. Regardless of FSB, you'd at least be running the board in spec with a P4C... and it'd be faster, too. Your cooling is OK? Stephan -- Meine Andere Seite: http://stephan.win31.de/ PC#6: i440BX, 2xCel300A, 512 MiB, 18+80 GB, GF2MX AGP 32 MiB, 110W This is a SCSI-inside, Legacy-plus, TCPA-free computer Reply to newsgroup only. | See home page for working e-mail address. |
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Yes, it's time to update your CPU if you want more speed. Your CPU is a
bottleneck. -- DaveW "GoldSpider" wrote in message om... I have an ASUS P4P800-VM with a 1.7GHz CPU and 1GB of PC3200 DDR-RAM. I really don't think I'm getting the kind of performance out of my system, and was hoping someone here could help me find what may be slowing me down. I ran CPU-Z and posted the results at http://home.comcast.net/~goldspider/cpuz.htm. Not included in the CPU-Z report is that I also have a 120GB Seagate SATA hard drive and an ATI Radeon 9800 (128MB) video card. I suspect the problem may have something to do with the fact that the CPU/RAM FSB is only 100/133 MHz respectively. From what I have seen, it would appear that the CPU multiplier is locked at 17, forcing, I suppose, the FSB at 100 MHz. If I'm going to get everything running at 400MHz FSB, would I have to buy a new processor? And that's assuming that the bottleneck is in fact the FSB. Any advice would be most appreciated! |
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