Please help with P3V4X settings/optimization

[houdy]

I recently put my own system together
Asus P3V4X most current bios and VIA 4in1 drivers are installed
PIII 800EB @ 133
128 PC133 ram
RADEON 64 With latest drivers
SB Live! Value
Currently run win98 se and tried win ME
The problem is i dont see much of an improvement or any compared to my other PIII 450 @ 100 on an intel 440bx board with 128 pc100 and ATI 128 pro (actually the lesser system seems to open apps faster and be altogether faster. what can i do to get this thing up to its potential ??????? I've messed with the bios and can't seem to get any combinations to work to my satisfaction. does any one out there have any suggestions or know what specific setttings need to be in the bios for the best peformance ? and is the 133 FSB actually slowing down my other hardware ? please help im ready to go back to my old system and chalk this up to a $1000.00 mistake
THANKS In advance

 

[osage]

Best site I know of for P3V4X specific tweaks and such.P3V4X forum You have read the manuel carefully I hope. While your at the linked site be sure to bet the Beta 4 way program, seem to help alot with memory.
good luck to you.

 

[IaPuP]

Speed in "windows" is not as much an aspect of the CPU speed, video system or bus speed, but more of AMOUNT of RAM, speed of harddrive, etc.

So- if you want your new system to "seem" faster, you should get a faster harddrive (7200 rpm) that can take advantage of the ATA-66 on the P3V4X.

Also, if you really want to feel an upgrade, you should have bought a 32MB Radeon and a PIII 733 and put the extra money toward more RAM.

I ran 384MB RAM and a 7200 RPM RAID harddrive setup with a Celeron 400 and an "original" TNT.

That's how much I think it affects performance. Granted, I was running Windows 2000 server under heavy mulitasking.

I could play most games at 800x600x16 which was acceptable to me but my system FLEW in Windows.

Hope that helps.
Go with 256MB RAM

Eric