Dragon Plus owners to the rescue....

SuperT

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Hey all, I put a new dragon in my system. it worked great before but i figured what the hell so i upgraded to this. i was able to overclock my system to 1.392 GHz on a 1.2 (12x100), i thought that looked great but the sys seemed slower. next the boot sector on my hard disk goes so i replace that and reinstall everything. i had access to a 1.2 (266 fsb) processor so i try that, it was very slow again, no o/c ing or anything, it seemed only happy running a 100mhz fsb when i should have been using 133. so i put back in the original 1.2 (200 fsb) and it seems happier but still pretty slow. i do need to mention that i have only 128mb of ddr in here and will receive another 128 tomorrow. my temps are good (118 f) but i'm missing something here, yeah i need more ram but this is a bit more perplexing.... let me know of ANY ideas..... thanks.:disgust:

edit: i must also add i installed the 4.35 via drivers, i'm using the raid as 4 seperate channels instead, and the drive installed is a new 40gb deskstar at 7200. the ram is pc 2100. also the processsor seems to constantly be at 100% ?????
 

RagingGuardian

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What OS are you using? If it's Win2K/XP then the RAM is the problem. You need more than 128mb of RAM when using Win2K to have all your applications running smoothly. Also if you're using Win2k/Xp make sure not to install that ITE Hardware crap. It keeps your cpu usage at 99% or %100 for others.
 

JimMc

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He's talking about a hardware monitoring utility (I think) that comes on the Dragon + CD. I just install the Via drivers, sound and Ultra 100 stuff. "Seemed slower" doesn't tell a whole lot, more RAM will certainly help, but try getting Sandra or something similar so you can can perform some benchmarks to better identify any problems you may be experiencing.
 

RagingGuardian

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I'm talking about the hardware monitor utility on the Soyo cd. Don't install it or it'll keep cpu usage at 100%. I find this happens with Win2K and XP. Use motherboard monitor if you want a hardware monitoring utility. Also get some more RAM. Win2K and XP require atleast 256mb of RAM to run smoothly.