New motherboard causing extremely low framerates in 3d games?! 1

[Aaron01281985]

I upgraded from a 1.0 ghz celeron / shuttle av18e mainboard to a 2.0 ghz celeron / ecs p4vxasd2+ mainboard, the rest of the system remained exactly the same:

System specs before and after upgrade:

windows 2000 pro
10 gb 7200rpm hard drive
512 mb pc133 sdram
geforce4 mx 420 agp, 64mb ram

My old motherboard/cpu i had no problems with, my entire system worked fine and i had no complaints. After installing my new 2.0ghz cpu and motherboard, the system started up fine, and i downloaded and installed the latest drivers for the motherboard and chipset. The only problem was that now all of my 3d games had extremetly low framerates! The video performance was extremely poor, with the screen freezing for a second or 2 every now and then. I had none of these problems on the old motherboard, even though the processor was only half as fast! All of my games on the old motherboard run smooth as silk, i have no problems.

Now i will answer some of the suggestions i'm sure to get:

-i have installed all of the latest drivers for ALL of my hardware, and the latest updates for windows, and directx 9

-the AGP setting in the BIOS is set to 4x

-i reinstalled windows and the games, but still had the same problem

-i ran benchmark tests on the processor and it appears to be running at 2.0 ghz

-the problem disappears completely when i switch back to my old mainboard

-i receieve the same problem when i tried using a different hard drive with a different operating system

-i tried loading the "optimal" BIOS settings and also the "failsafe" BIOS settings, and tried tweaking as many BIOS settings as i could, but did not make a difference.

This means the problem HAS to be with the mainboard itself, not the software, or processor, or any of the other hardware components, as the problem disappears when i change back to the old mainboard.

Now, my question is, what the HECK is causing this? A defective AGP slot? defective fsb? defective chipset??? or is it working fine and its just a piece of junk?

If i can't find out how to fix this soon, i'm going to return the whole thing and claim that it is defective, and i'm going to avoid ECS/VIA completely in the future!

 

[attrofy]

Treeking,

No offense intended, but that is your experience at your shop. You all have found combinations of hardware that work good for the configurations and peripherals that you sell. I know of other shops (and my own experience) that haven't had the same experience with those products, and have found other combinations that work and some that don't.

I have no affinty towards ECS, but one thing to keep in mind, most ECS builds are budget boxes, and as such everything put in them is the "bargain" component. As such, they are exposed to probably the greatest range of forced compatability of "junk" components.

Since there are succseful builds, and long lasting machines based on ECS platforms, I don't believe that they are in the same category as PcChips or some generic "house" brand boards that are out there.

But then again, I wouldn't build a server with an ECS.

Like I said, different strokes for differnt folks. Differnet machines for different applications.

My personal dislike's for Asus and VIA don't mean they aren't good products. I just personally don't care for them.

But again that is my opinion based on MY experiences.

 

[attrofy]

Treeking,

I forgot to add, it is the same comparison of AMD to Intel - which to use and when??? It depends on the configuration and the intended use of the machine.

 

[stevenriz]

Have you looked at and tried different video refresh rates? I am sure you have.