My Iwill KK266-R system is signifcantly slower and laggy in response compared to my Epox 8K7A system - What's up with this?!

[junthin]

Here are the two systems:

System A:

Iwill KK266-R
AMD 1.33 GHz Tbird (no overclock)
1 GB PC133 Cas2 RAM
Two 60 GB 7200rpm Maxtor Hard Drives (non-raid)
Radeon 64MB DDR VIVO AGP Video
TI Firewire card
Netgear FA311 NIC
Santa Cruz Sound Card
Clean install of Windows 2000 SP1


System B:
Epox 8K7A
AMD 1.4 GHz Tbird (no overclock)
256 MB Crucial PC2100 DDR Cas 2.5
One 60 GB 7200rpm IBM Hard Drive
Geforce 2 Ultra 64MB AGP Video Card
Linksys NIC
Santa Cruz Sound Card
Clean install of Windows 2000 SP1

You would think both systems would run close the same speeds? NOPE!

System A is significantly laggier than System B! (As in my old PIII 600E ran smoother and faster than it! ) What gives, with so much more RAM shouldn't it be at least AS responsive as System B. I'm also getting horrible sustained transfer rates for System A's Hard Drive (around 2000 Kbytes/Sec)

Any help here? Thanks!

 

[bacillus]

what OS?
is dma enabled for the hdds?
did you install the via drivers??

 

[junthin]

bacillus: Windows 2000.

DMA, I think so. How do you check? (I guess my VIA isn't updated enough. )

VIA drivers, yes, but I don't know which ones are the latest ones out there.

Please help me, thanks!

 

[MallowJr]

Dunno about significantly slower/laggy...but I would NOT think system A is faster (don't know that much about PCs thogh, just an opinion). You have a faster processor in B, you have FASTER RAM in B. There comes a point when more RAM does nothing for your needs, more RAM doesn't always mean faster performance. I have a maxtor drive and it came defaulted as DMA not enabled, this made as significant difference in performance when you check it...(I use win98se now though, can't remember where to get it on win2k - try device manager in control panel!).

 

[Cattlegod]

system b should be about 10-20% faster when running applications. transfer rate with the drives has to do with drivers and HD types.

 

[bacillus]

WIN2K > Device Manager > IDE/ATAPI Controllers > Primary IDE/Secondary
IDE Channel > Advanced Settings > Transfer Mode > DMA if available >
> OK
you can get the latest via 4.32 drivers from here!

 

[junthin]

Thanks bacillus!

Downloading now!

 

[junthin]

Okay, the DMA is enabled, but it only bumps it to 2500 Kbytes/sec. Is there any other way to get it faster? Thanks!

 

[junthin]

Okay, got the newest VIA drivers and installed (freezes at the very end after install though ) and it bumps up the speed to about 2500 Kbytes/Sec. Is there any other solution?

 

[junthin]

Hmm...this is starting to suck...

The system randomly freezes and locks up. (I have to reboot in order to clear the freeze and lock up)

And during some operations (like video captures) the system stalls for a second or two and then continues. What causes this?

Any solutions? Thanks!

 

[blargyblarg]

try updating to the most recent bios for that motherboard. i had problems in win2k with my KK266, bios update fixed it.


http://support.iwill.net/kk266r.htm

 

[TunaBoo]

Turn off ACPI and run it like a real man

 

[Fastball]

Why on God's green earth would you think system A would be faster?

 

[rmblam]

http://www.fullon3d.com/kk266faq/kk266faq.shtml

 

[dieselstation]

i had the same problem as you. it's the VIA drivers. i had version 4.25 and those SUCKED. go get version 4.32

 

[McMullet]

jutthin...... I have never liked using a Radeaon card with an AMD system... maybe if you tried swapping the cards to test to see if maybe that is yer problem... just a suggestion.