sorry if this has already been discussed.
i recently purchased an Asrock p45xe as an upgrade budget board from my asrock SATAII Core2Duo. i guess i shoulda researched BEFORE i purchased it, but took the "#1 board for under $100" from Tomshardware to be a good sign. with pci-e 2.0 16x (8x in CF) i tho't i would a see noticeable jump form the pci-e 1.0 4x of my old board. i'm runnin a lowly hd 3870 an to my extreme disappointment, after stayin up all nite to swap out my mb, discovered no performance increase what so ever. my 3d mark 06 scores were within 100 points of each other. can this be right? this is my 1st mb install (i'v always gotten the barebone systems with the mb already installed), so is it possible i may have screwed up somewhere or is it maybe a limitation of the video card? am i expecting too much?
i recently purchased an Asrock p45xe as an upgrade budget board from my asrock SATAII Core2Duo. i guess i shoulda researched BEFORE i purchased it, but took the "#1 board for under $100" from Tomshardware to be a good sign. with pci-e 2.0 16x (8x in CF) i tho't i would a see noticeable jump form the pci-e 1.0 4x of my old board. i'm runnin a lowly hd 3870 an to my extreme disappointment, after stayin up all nite to swap out my mb, discovered no performance increase what so ever. my 3d mark 06 scores were within 100 points of each other. can this be right? this is my 1st mb install (i'v always gotten the barebone systems with the mb already installed), so is it possible i may have screwed up somewhere or is it maybe a limitation of the video card? am i expecting too much?