Asrock 945GC A2 Help...

[imported_Rem]

Life without my mobo:

My real mobo is an asus p5k-E WiFi-AP edition and to make a long story short, I messed the cpu socket and I'm getting an rma so while that gets around I bought a cheap asrock to get around while the rma gets done...

Now to the point:

The asrock is the one listed as "Wolfdale 1333-D667 R2.0", NB 945GC A2, SB Intel ICH7...

VC: Nvidia geforce 8800gts 512 (g92)
Ram: 4gb g.skill pc2-6400 (400mhz)
Sound: Xfi extreme gamer
Proc: cheap Core 2 e4500...

Thing is, I want this "get around mobo" to at least let me play games like Counter Strike Source...

But for some reason I can't... it's just unbearable, I get 80-110 fps if I'm alone on a server (fine)... once it fills up I get 40-70 fps (still fine) and if I get in a firefight that quickly drops to around 10-20 (sigh)for a few seconds, sort of a stutter then it goes to 60 again, it's just crazy. I was getting 180 fps+ in CS:S with the other mobo (even though I know I can't see past 60fps).

Another thing is that the computer on load or idle will randomly start to stutter at set intervals of time... Both sound and video, It's hard to explain, the easiest way for me to explain the stutter is this... If I move the mouse fast from side to side really fast at any given moment it will stop for a fraction of a second then continue... same for sound. This happens on everything, while opening applications, hearing music anything and it gets frustrating really fast... the only way I found to get rid of it is to restart windows, or just let it die out (it kind of stops after 15 minutes).

So... any help you peeps can give me will be appreciated... I know it's an entry level mobo and I shouldn't expect much from it... but I thought maybe with the other components mainly VC I could at least get through while my asus gets back... Can someone explain to me why are apps and games so dependent on the mobo?

Sigh...

Rem

 

[imported_Rem]

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[Zap]

Try reinstalling motherboard drivers first, and then video drivers. Also, were you overclocking before? That 945GC chipset board won't run your RAM at rated speeds. "Officially" the chipset only runs RAM at a maximum of DDR2-533, but unofficially there's a multiplier that pretty much all the motherboard manufacturers use to run RAM at DDR2-667. Still, will be a bit lower than you're used to. Add that to stock CPU speeds versus whatever you were clocked at... Can also check RAM timings, and maybe do a Memtest. Those cheap boards don't give you VDIMM options (or very little).

 

[imported_Rem]

Thanks for the reply, will do. Yeah I don't get much help from the bios options... the only options I have are "low, medium, high" voltage for ram :/. I did get the mobo to OC a bit... not much though since it will not post after I try to oc the proc to 2.50ghz, so I'm pretty much stuck, and the mobo drivers are baaaad.