- Aug 21, 2002
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I just bought this board... installation was simple... I've heard people complain about the location of the IDE ports at the bottom, but I love it... it moves the cables out of the way for better air flow.
But anyway... after installing all the updated drivers and flashing the BIOS... I decided to benchmark my computer again.
Well... my score is lower in PCMark2003 and lower in 3DMark2001... is this just cause the KT400 chipset is new and hasn't been fine tuned as much as my old Shuttle AK31 motherboard that's been around forever? It's not just a small different either... it was 300 points for the CPU in PCMark, 200 for RAM, and almost 100 for the HDD... and it was below 10,000 in 3DMark... my previous score is in my profile.
But anyway... after installing all the updated drivers and flashing the BIOS... I decided to benchmark my computer again.
Well... my score is lower in PCMark2003 and lower in 3DMark2001... is this just cause the KT400 chipset is new and hasn't been fine tuned as much as my old Shuttle AK31 motherboard that's been around forever? It's not just a small different either... it was 300 points for the CPU in PCMark, 200 for RAM, and almost 100 for the HDD... and it was below 10,000 in 3DMark... my previous score is in my profile.