As I posted elsewhere on here a while back, I had a motherboard failure after a case swap. Finally found a motherboard with what I needed (AGP, SATA & IDE), an ASRock P4i65GV. My old motherboard was a Gigabyte GA8i848PM. Installed it all yesterday and it works ok, except for that everything seems slower. My Windows 7 Experience Index went from 3.5 to 1.8, just on the CPU.
Would the motherboard itself have such an impact? Have I buggered up the processor when I switched motherboard? Anything else I could have missed, Hyperthreading, etc.?
New motherboard runs slower?
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Thanks Seb. Just ran it. I corrected the memory timings in the BIOS as well. They were set to [Auto]-4-4-8, instead of 3-3-3-8. Had to leave the CL at Auto or it didn't boot up. Now it's running at 2.5 though. Seems a bit snappier now.
CPU still giving me 1.8 in the WEI though. CPU-Z says the frequency is just about 3000 MHz, so that's correct. The multiplier is x 15.0, don't know if that's correct though. Bus Speed is 200 MHz, which again I don't if it's what it's supposed to be. FSB is 800 MHz though, which should be correct.
CPU still giving me 1.8 in the WEI though. CPU-Z says the frequency is just about 3000 MHz, so that's correct. The multiplier is x 15.0, don't know if that's correct though. Bus Speed is 200 MHz, which again I don't if it's what it's supposed to be. FSB is 800 MHz though, which should be correct.