HELP!Just upgraded to a ASUS K8V SE Motherboard and new AMD64 3200.My system is running slower than the old one with only frame rates of 4-5fps at airports and 10-12 while flying.Can anyone familiar with this setup tell me what setting are needed in the Bios, Memery, or configuration to get it to run properly. What should the memory page size be or how do you unlock the power of AMD64 ??I'm told it should be getting twice the fps'sI've tried everything. What about duel channel? is that's what needed with the AMD64 to get the better performance. If so is the ASUS K8V SE motherboard the wrong board to take advantage of dual channel??System Spec'sASUS K8V SE DELUXE K8T800Windows XPAMD64 32001024 DDR-3200 DDR400 (2-512's)CORSAIR100GB IBM IDE HDDNVedia 5900XL AGPSB AUDIGYAny help would be appriciated.signed: frustated, Am I missing some setup required to open up the speed gates??Thanks,Walt

You are sure you have it running in the correct speed? Do you have CPUID or similar you can check your CPU speed in?What did you upgrade from? Have you tried running 3DMARK or something similar?Dual channel if you have Socket 939 which I guess you do is automatically activated if you have the memory in the right slots. When you boot it says dual channel enabled or something if so. That don

I have the same CPU and a similar ASUS K8V motherboard. That is slow for your setup. Have you installed the motherboard drivers that enable AGP acceleration? Here is a good thread to look at: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...7&topic_id=2718Regarding channels, the memory controller internal to the AMD-64 3200 is only single channel (socket 754). Dual channel AMD 64s (socket 939) offer about a 2-5% real improvement. You're 3200 is a good overclocker though, if you're ever interested in doing that (but I think you'll need a newer motherboard): http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2206

Thanks forgot about the 3200 is only Newcastle or Clawhammers CPU:s.If you have Newcastle it more then makes up for it by having extra cache though but the 3200+ is lower clocked than the 3500+ and thus...Also yeah that mainboard sucks for overclocking because it lacks an AGP/PCI lock which is quite crucial otherwise you can kill your harddrives or video card by overclocking.

I was thinking about grabbing one of the newer, 754 overclocking boards myself. They're pretty cheap really considering the performance boost they could deliver. The only problem is I'm not quite ready to risk smoking my Clawhammer just yet. Another question mark is my memory, I have 2x512 of Mushkin Lvl II, PC3500 currently at 2-3-2. I think it should overclock well but I've never really pushed it.

I of course meant the Clawhammer is the one to get due to the extra cache :( don

>You are sure you have it running in the correct speed? Do you>have CPUID or similar you can check your CPU speed in?>>What did you upgrade from? Have you tried running 3DMARK or>something similar?>>Dual channel if you have Socket 939 which I guess you do is>automatically activated if you have the memory in the right>slots. When you boot it says dual channel enabled or something>if so. That don

>I have the same CPU and a similar ASUS K8V motherboard. That>is slow for your setup. Have you installed the motherboard>drivers that enable AGP acceleration? >>Here is a good thread to look at: >>http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...7&topic_id=2718>>Regarding channels, the memory controller internal to the>AMD-64 3200 is only single channel (socket 754). Dual channel>AMD 64s (socket 939) offer about a 2-5% real improvement. >You're 3200 is a good overclocker though, if you're ever>interested in doing that (but I think you'll need a newer>motherboard): http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2206Thanks for the concern,Yes I finally got it figured out. Turns out that the K8V chipset driverswere not loading properly and I was merely running the game on the Windowsdefault drivers. This was caused because my MS-DOS or 16-Bit Windowsexecutions files were damaged. Microsoft gave me the fix solution and thechipset files were then allowed to load properly. (Apparently the Chipsetfiles are MS-DOS/16-bit programs.)Asus was unable to relate to the problem at all and only suggested that Ireformat all my drives and start over. I knew that was crazy because I hadinstalled many motherboards before. That's when I called the Microsoft 800number and they gave me a Microsoft Knowledge base article - 324767 thatprovided the solution.Thanks again,Walt

>I have the same CPU and a similar ASUS K8V motherboard. That>is slow for your setup. Have you installed the motherboard>drivers that enable AGP acceleration? >>Here is a good thread to look at: >>http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...7&topic_id=2718>>Regarding channels, the memory controller internal to the>AMD-64 3200 is only single channel (socket 754). Dual channel>AMD 64s (socket 939) offer about a 2-5% real improvement. >You're 3200 is a good overclocker though, if you're ever>interested in doing that (but I think you'll need a newer>motherboard): http://www.anandtech.com/mb/showdoc.aspx?i=2206Thanks for the concern,Yes I finally got it figured out. Turns out that the K8V chipset driverswere not loading properly and I was merely running the game on the Windowsdefault drivers. This was caused because my MS-DOS or 16-Bit Windowsexecutions files were damaged. Microsoft gave me the fix solution and thechipset files were then allowed to load properly. (Apparently the Chipsetfiles are MS-DOS/16-bit programs.)Asus was unable to relate to the problem at all and only suggested that Ireformat all my drives and start over. I knew that was crazy because I hadinstalled many motherboards before. That's when I called the Microsoft 800number and they gave me a Microsoft Knowledge base article - 324767 thatprovided the solution.Thanks again,Walt

>Thanks forgot about the 3200 is only Newcastle or Clawhammers>CPU:s.>>If you have Newcastle it more then makes up for it by having>extra cache though but the 3200+ is lower clocked than the>3500+ and thus...>>Also yeah that mainboard sucks for overclocking because it>lacks an AGP/PCI lock which is quite crucial otherwise you can>kill your harddrives or video card by overclocking.Thanks for the concern,Yes I finally got it figured out. Turns out that the K8V chipset driverswere not loading properly and I was merely running the game on the Windowsdefault drivers. This was caused because my MS-DOS or 16-Bit Windowsexecutions files were damaged. Microsoft gave me the fix solution and thechipset files were then allowed to load properly. (Apparently the Chipsetfiles are MS-DOS/16-bit programs.)Asus was unable to relate to the problem at all and only suggested that Ireformat all my drives and start over. I knew that was crazy because I hadinstalled many motherboards before. That's when I called the Microsoft 800number and they gave me a Microsoft Knowledge base article - 324767 thatprovided the solution.Thanks again,Walt