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New motherboard, slower PC

creep
08-30-2008, 08:30 PM
Hi all. I'm not sure if that's the right section for my problem, so if it's not then I'm sorry.

A few days ago I've replaced my motherboard, since the the AGP port on the other one got broken. I bought MSI RS350M-ILSR (MS-7031) motherboard (info from Everest). The problem is, everything is WAY slower than before. Games that ran perfectly are now a slideshow, like World in Conflict, or HL2 for example. Hell, even quake 3 runs way worse than before, sometimes dropping under 90 fps even tho it was 125 all the time before. I thought it may be the driver issue since it's a different motherboard, so I reformatted C drive and did a clean windows install. That didn't help. Even the installation took way longer than before, let alone the formatting. I tried using an onboard vid card, but that didn't help, neither did using a better PSU. Of course I installed the drivers I could find for my motherboard and vid card. The temps. are the same as they were on the previous motherboard. I couldn't find the info on the motherboard anywhere for some reason, but I can upload the PDF manual if anyone wants. My configuration:
Intel Pentium 4 Prescott 3.2ghz (LGA 478)
Radeon x1650 512mb (AGPx8)
1024 ram
MSI RS350M-ILSR (MS-7031) Motherboard
320gb Seagate SATA drive
Modecom Feel 400w PSU (Also checked it on 550w Chieftec and it didn't help)
Please help. Thanks in advance.

Tmagic650
08-31-2008, 03:36 PM
What operating system are you running? Have you applied the latest drivers for your "new" motherboard AND the Radeon AGP video card?

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creep
08-31-2008, 04:58 PM
I'm running Windows XP Proffesional. Yes I installed drivers for motherboard and Vid card.

balance17
08-31-2008, 06:09 PM
often with old games like quake and HL they don't function properly with the new drivers

creep
08-31-2008, 06:34 PM
The point is that EVERYTHING was working like 2 times faster than it does now. Formatting, defragmenting, games, installing Windows, et cetera...

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