I put neverwinter nights back on saturday and i was expirencing some really bad stuttering. it seemed that there was disk activity when it stutters. last time i had it on it ran perfectly smooth. after a fresh install of win xp pro i ran some benches. my 3dmark 2001 score was what i expected, about 10500. I noticed my file system benchmark in sandra was ridculously low, 14000 kB/s when i should be getting about 31000 kB/s ( and have before). I looked in my case and found i had a crap cable hooked up to it. I looked in my onboard raid bios and sure enough it was running at ata 33. So i replaced it with the proper cable and the raid bios reported ata 100. However my sandra file system benchmark only increased to 19000 kB/s. I've tried both running it off the raid controller and the ide controller, no luck. any ideas? (the hdd is on it's own channel)
here are my system specs:
Athlon 1900 XP
Epox 8k3a+ (11/1/2002 bios with optimized defaults)
2 x 256 samsung ddr333
Western Digital 80 gb special edition 8mb cache drive (wd800jb)
Gainward Geforce 4 4400
Phillips Acoustic Edge
2 x Linksys 10/100 ethernet nics
Windows XP Professional /w SP1
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here are my system specs:
Athlon 1900 XP
Epox 8k3a+ (11/1/2002 bios with optimized defaults)
2 x 256 samsung ddr333
Western Digital 80 gb special edition 8mb cache drive (wd800jb)
Gainward Geforce 4 4400
Phillips Acoustic Edge
2 x Linksys 10/100 ethernet nics
Windows XP Professional /w SP1
Detonator 41.09
via 4 in 1, 4.42
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