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Does the mobo maker make a big difference in overall performance?

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perdomot

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I replaced a Gigabyte 785G mobo with an Asrock 785G mobo and kept everything else the same as I wanted to keep using my DDR2 ram, hdd, etc. The thing is, I keep getting the feeling that the system felt faster before. This is the mobo I'm using:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813157180
From reviews I've read, general system performance of the same chipset but different makers is very close so am I imaging things?
 
OC performance can vary board to board, but you should be getting the same speeds with the CPU at the same speeds with differnt boards with the same chipset.
 
assuming youre using the same windows install (assuming youre using windows), your system may run slower as a result of switching motherboards and drivers etc (registry fragmentationo and what not). besides that, some motherboards actually run your cpu slightly faster than the stock setting; basically a very small overclock...its noticeable in some benchmarks but i dont think you would notice it in regular usage. are you sure your RAM is running in dual channel mode?
 
I'm running a clean install of Win 7 on the new mobo and ram is in dual channel unganged mode. It could have been that I was using the 64 bit version of Win 7 on the new mobo and had been using the 32 bit on the Gigabyte board. I switched back to the 32 bit last weekend and things seem better but I though that the 64 bit OS would feel faster or at least its supposed to compared to 32 bit. I think I'll post the question in the OS forum and see if anyone else has noticed this. Thanks for the feedback.
 
perdomot said:
I'm running a clean install of Win 7 on the new mobo and ram is in dual channel unganged mode. It could have been that I was using the 64 bit version of Win 7 on the new mobo and had been using the 32 bit on the Gigabyte board. I switched back to the 32 bit last weekend and things seem better but I though that the 64 bit OS would feel faster or at least its supposed to compared to 32 bit. I think I'll post the question in the OS forum and see if anyone else has noticed this. Thanks for the feedback.
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Fresh installs generally always feel faster.
 
I think I might have found the problem. I had been using AMDs AHCI driver instead of MS old AHCI driver and when I changed it back, I got some tremendous results, particularly on my old WD 640 GB HDD. The SSD also improved in quite a few places and the system feels faster. I uploaded the 4 benches to my Flicker acct so I'm hoping it pops up here correctly. I did a before and after pic on each drive so you can see the difference:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/logan666pics/sets/72157624288866056/
 
You'd better check out the numbers again particularly the HDD writes and the SSD reads. Writes go from 63 to 99MB/s on the HDD and some of the reads on the SSD go from 150MB/s to over 200MB/s. Definately more than 1-3%
 
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