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9800 Pro and Aquamark 3 (huge performance hit)
I benchmarked my system using Aquamark 3, and found that performance had
degraded over 50% from when I originally built the system. Original score of 44000+ was down to 21000, same configuration. I installed the newest Omega ATI drivers, and improved to 32000. The CPU score is down from 9900+ to just over 4000. Changes since first benchmark: Installed DirectX 9c, Installed SP2, Upgraded to Norton AV 2005 from 2003. System: Gigabyte K8NNXP w/AMD64 3200+ 1 GB Mushkin Level 1 PC3500 2X36GB SATA Raptor (RAID 0) and 1 IBM Deskstar ATA HD ATI Radeon 9800 Pro M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Plextor 708A CD/DVD RW Crystal Fontz 634 LCD 7-in-1 card Reader WinXP w/SP2 Any idea what may be causing the problem, or what to try to resolve it? Thanks, Fitz |
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I just scored a 48,620 with a 9800Pro, P4 at 3.3GHz, 512MB at 200Mhz cl2, WinXP, DX 9c, Cat 4.9 drivers. So I would imagine something is eating up performance. Something running in the background - spyware or a utility of some type? "Fitz" wrote in message ... I benchmarked my system using Aquamark 3, and found that performance had degraded over 50% from when I originally built the system. Original score of 44000+ was down to 21000, same configuration. I installed the newest Omega ATI drivers, and improved to 32000. The CPU score is down from 9900+ to just over 4000. Changes since first benchmark: Installed DirectX 9c, Installed SP2, Upgraded to Norton AV 2005 from 2003. System: Gigabyte K8NNXP w/AMD64 3200+ 1 GB Mushkin Level 1 PC3500 2X36GB SATA Raptor (RAID 0) and 1 IBM Deskstar ATA HD ATI Radeon 9800 Pro M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Plextor 708A CD/DVD RW Crystal Fontz 634 LCD 7-in-1 card Reader WinXP w/SP2 Any idea what may be causing the problem, or what to try to resolve it? Thanks, Fitz |
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That was my initial thought. I've run a virus scan, AdAware SE, Window
Washers, and Diskeeper. Are you running SP2? Fitz |
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"Fitz" wrote in message ... That was my initial thought. I've run a virus scan, AdAware SE, Window Washers, and Diskeeper. Are you running SP2? Fitz I know its a stupid question, but have you checked your bios settings rececntly. The other day I thought my PC seemed a bit sluggish and for some reason I decided to check things with cpu-z. To my amazement, it was running 1100MHz (11x100) instead of the normal 11x218 settings I have for day to day use. I went into the bios and sure enough it was set to 11x100. How and why this got changed, I have no idea ???!?!?! Just a thought Chip |
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Yes, SP2.
Are you sure, AA or AF arn't on. Or howabout v-Sync "Fitz" wrote in message ... That was my initial thought. I've run a virus scan, AdAware SE, Window Washers, and Diskeeper. Are you running SP2? Fitz |
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fish wrote:
Yes, SP2. No ... I am betting Norton try disabling it and run the tests again. regards @ndrew |
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Found it! It was the chipset drivers. I was using the latest from the NVidia
website. I uninstalled them and used the drivers from the motherboard (Gigabyte) website and performance improve drastically. Overall score 45000+ with CPU up over 9000 again. Thanks for the input... Fitz |
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You did completely disable the virus scanner (including any and all
background file I/O scanners), right? Norton AV is notorious for gobbling up resources. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." "Fitz" wrote in message ... I benchmarked my system using Aquamark 3, and found that performance had degraded over 50% from when I originally built the system. Original score of 44000+ was down to 21000, same configuration. I installed the newest Omega ATI drivers, and improved to 32000. The CPU score is down from 9900+ to just over 4000. Changes since first benchmark: Installed DirectX 9c, Installed SP2, Upgraded to Norton AV 2005 from 2003. System: Gigabyte K8NNXP w/AMD64 3200+ 1 GB Mushkin Level 1 PC3500 2X36GB SATA Raptor (RAID 0) and 1 IBM Deskstar ATA HD ATI Radeon 9800 Pro M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Plextor 708A CD/DVD RW Crystal Fontz 634 LCD 7-in-1 card Reader WinXP w/SP2 Any idea what may be causing the problem, or what to try to resolve it? Thanks, Fitz |
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First of One wrote:
You did completely disable the virus scanner (including any and all background file I/O scanners), right? Norton AV is notorious for gobbling up resources. Agree entirely they should be horsewhipped for the way their programs work. The only decent program of Norton's that I will use is Ghost. regards @ndrew |
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I have been using Symantec's AV Corp edition for a few years.
I have run bench testes from Sandra for memory and CPU, 3D Marks with and without it and there is never any differences in performance, ever. I don't think that Symantec's AV is the culprit. I would agree that Norton System works and all the other useless utilities could be. "@ndrew" andrewratinternodedotondotnet wrote in message ... First of One wrote: You did completely disable the virus scanner (including any and all background file I/O scanners), right? Norton AV is notorious for gobbling up resources. Agree entirely they should be horsewhipped for the way their programs work. The only decent program of Norton's that I will use is Ghost. regards @ndrew |
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