poor agp performance on asrock dual sata2 with amd x2 4200

[ywytyr]

I have big problems with the 3d performance on my new sata2 motherboard. I only get 1200 in 3dmark06 points compared to the 1500 I got with my pentium 4 2600 cpu and the same graphics card.

My rig consists of
amd x2 4200 cpu
msi geforce 6800 agp
2x seagate 7200.7 sata 120 gb
2x 512 mb crucial ram

I updated with 2.30 agp driver provided by ULI and asrock (two differen clean installs) after a clean windows xp install. Then I installed the new nvidia 8xxx graphics driver.

I tried different agp and graphic card drivers with no success. I also tried the ms amd x2 hot fix.

I would be grateful for any help on the subject

 

[McArra]

1200 points in what? Are you sure you have the AGP driver installed? look for it in the device manager, maybe you have to install it manually. Also update to BIOS 1.60, theres a fix for some AGP Nvidia cards I believe.

 

[BrokenArrow]

Are you talking about 3d05 or 06?

 

[ywytyr]

Thanks for quick answers
1200 3dmark cpu score is ok: 1600
3dmark 06
agp driver installed after clean install, device manager showing ulig agp 2.3 driver
bios is 1.6

 

[McArra]

Use 2.10 drivers, they are better IMO. Also make sure the video driver is recognizing the AGP bus, if not just unninstall and install video drivers again.

 

[ywytyr]

I tried them with no success.
I got the following experience with this board:

xp 64, only 7xxx drivers were able to run 3dmark, still 13xx points
xp uli nv7xx 600 points
xp asrock 8xxx 1300 points

The asrock and uli drivers are supposed to be the same graphics driver. However, in the control panel the uli is listed as pci to agp, while the asrock is listed as agp driver.

Guess i have to wait for a bios or chipset driver upgrade and when i am tired of that buy a new pci-e board.

No reply from asrock support either, too bad

 

[metallibloke]

Theres a big thread about this board over at HardOCP. Apparantly, you need the unified drivers from ULi website to sort out the AGP problem.

(Dont have this board myself, just going on what I've read)

 

[ywytyr]

I learned this from my post at amdmb
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread....071#post3753071
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I was told at NV News that it could very well be my PSU, My PSU is an AOpen 400w with 12v rail rated at 16A. I was told that with newer mobo's and CPU's you need at least 20A on the 12v. Any one else having these problems on a weaker PSU?

I have a 350w fortron source psu. My computer i fuly stable. But maybe this is the reason for the lousy performance?

 

[Greenman]

The OCWorkbench forums have an ASROCK section, and a few threads claiming to solve the problem you're having.
http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwb/ultimatebb.php?/forum/30.html