WoW, that made a big difference....

[Insidious]

I was just finishing up clean installs/migrations to the new hardware and ran that benchie looking for problems.

I saw my 3DMark2001se score was ~9200. Ok, I'm not a benchie fan and never strip my machines for high marks (the opposite actually), but this was ridiculous..... I poked around a bit and realized that I had not run the hyperon (via 4-in-1). After this, my benchie was at 12,700 (where I was used to seeing it on this hardware).

That's a BIG difference. So to ABit who recommends running on the XP native chipset drivers...... (use the ones from VIA!)

-Sid

 

[Blastman]

Yup, my VIA 4in1?s increased my 3Dmark score ~ 25% too on W-XP. HDD performance went up 6x with 4in1?s also.

 

[propellerhead]

Benchie?

 

[Insidious]

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[Keysplayr]

Hey that's great guys, just dont plug anything into the USB ports and you'll be fine. VIA sucks for USB compatability.
I have had at least 12 via motherboards of all flavors and colors and not once did I run into a stable USB solution from them.
I plugged in a digital camera, film card readers, zip drives, memory keys. They all either blue screen and or reboot the PC. Oh, and this happens only
with the 4 in 1 drivers. I will never buy VIA again and I suggest you guys think twice before you do again. I am not ranting at you guys, believe me,
just furious at VIA for releasing such crappy southbridges or whatever controls USB.

IMHO
Keys

 

[Insidious]

I guess I've been lucky so far....

The only USB 'issue' I ran into was that I couldn't install the USB 2.0 driver until after I had upgraded to SP1.

Was this on XP that you had all those problems? I know zips can be problematic, but I presently am set up for the camera, the flashcard reader, my joystick, gamevoice controller, my mouse, my scanner and my printer with no issues what so ever.

the only reason I have the keyboard on the PS2 is because I use it with Ghost and flashing BIOS but do not want it selected to be controlled by BIOS.

I suspect this may be where your problems came from..... this chipset does NOT do well with the keyboard and/or mouse set to BIOS control. (But fine with control selected to OS)

anyway, I am sorry to hear you couldn't get your system configured with VIA but am glad there are some very good alternatives out there for you.

personally, I liked the NF2 solution until I found that I would have to replace my HDs to run raid and my memory to run at all.....
that's how I ended up on KT400.

-Sid

 

[titanmiller]

Upgrading to the 4 in 1 drivers was the only way I could get Battlefield 1942 to work on my computer. But I dont recall any preformace gains, actualy I think I had a preformance decline. My best benchmark is 7955 due to my stupid PC100 SDRAM and 1.2ghz Tbird, my Ti4400 deserves better.

 

[Insidious]

I'm guessing it's very dependent upon which VIA chipsets (as well as their implimentation) and OS.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: titanmiller
Upgrading to the 4 in 1 drivers was the only way I could get Battlefield 1942 to work on my computer. But I dont recall any preformace gains, actualy I think I had a preformance decline. My best benchmark is 7955 due to my stupid PC100 SDRAM and 1.2ghz Tbird, my Ti4400 deserves better.

I'll give your Ti4400 a better home... trade for my Ti4200? =)