My personal G3220 impressions

[lyssword]

yeah that's weird. Maybe because win8 defaults to ahci (vs normal ide) instructions and those require more knowledge about its hardware? dunno

 

[skipsneeky2]

I have a old x4 9150e@1.8ghz which isn't far off from your old x4 9550....thing can be amazingly good for multi-tasking still but only decent for older games like Counter Strike or some BF2. BF3 amazingly enough can pull anywhere from like 45-75 fps ha and run smooth.

Got a perfectly good working Jan 2003 dated WD 80gb ide and personally that little x4 9150e ends up feeling damn slow like your 5,400rpm drive....i have ran a ssd with this x4 9150e and the multi tasking doesn't feel much slower then my i7 till i load up a game or something lol then you see its age.

Ditch the 5,400 rpm drive.

 

[Charlie98]

Not really an analogy. You don't build a PC every month for one, and unlike a car you'll be using a PC for more than getting A to B. If its a basic box that will last until it dies don't gimp it out the box with a poky dual core in 2014.

My wife thinks I build a PC every month...

Actually, it is a sound analogy. Getting from point A to B is exactly what a PC does, some tasks require horsepower, some don't.

 

[VirtualLarry]

My wife thinks I build a PC every month...

Actually, it is a sound analogy. Getting from point A to B is exactly what a PC does, some tasks require horsepower, some don't.

I build a PC a month it seems. Well, maybe every two months. I end up buying, say, three mobos and CPUs one month, because they're on sale, then the following months, I pick up some RAM, case / PSU, SSD, etc., so it works out to like one PC every month or two.

I build mainly extreme-budget PCs though.

 

[skipsneeky2]

My wife thinks I build a PC every month...

Same with my wife, my buddies wife gets on him when he puts a couple bucks into WOT.

Women never get the computer thing, my wife freaking lives on Facebook but a couple hours on BF4 and i get hassled to log off and "spend some time" with her time. Me trying to get her off facebook involves a bit of begging, a pry bar and a chocolate bar or sometimes a few.:biggrin:

 

[4ghz]

Okay guys, I gotta confess, I did not install the drivers that were on the motherboard disk. Usually I never bother installing the drivers off the disc as I figure its never anything crucial. Well I decided to give it a go and install everything on the disk. Since doing so I have noticed huge improvement. Its like night and day, I am able to open multiple programs and tabs with no noticeable slow downs. Everything from opening apps and folders to browsing the web seems a lot more fluid than it did before. The only possible thing I could point to solving this were either the chipset drivers or the SATA drivers, but honestly I never figured it would have this effect.

Its generally ok to use the baked in Windows drivers when installing on old hardware. But when the hardware is newer then then the version of Windows you are using its important to use the driver disc.

 

[JumBie]

Its generally ok to use the baked in Windows drivers when installing on old hardware. But when the hardware is newer then then the version of Windows you are using its important to use the driver disc.

I figured Windows 8 would install some proper drivers for the motherboard, guess its critical that all new builds going forward get their drivers installed off the disk or web site.

 

[crashtech]

Generally it has a lot to do with the age difference between the OS and the hardware. It takes a few years for Microsoft to incorporate WHQL drivers into their OS releases.

 

[Sheep221]

The problematic tasks OP is reporting I had no problem doing some 10 years ago on then Athlon XP single core computer. What he reports are hard drive performance problems(independently from CPU). But since he started to notice problems only after assembling the new rig(and I assume using old HDD) there might be problem between HDD and Motherboard SATA controller, resulting in frequent halt-ons.

//didn't read entire thread, maybe someone else mentioned this before

 

[Seba]

//didn't read entire thread, maybe someone else mentioned this before

The cause was that he did not install the drivers.