HELP!- Asus P4T-E

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 9:58 am

Just changed my setup from CUSL2-C / P3 to P4T-E / P4a.
Everything is running smooth and fast, but I have (much) lower PCI-performance on the new board ???????
I've already tried all the known tricks and tweaks, but to no avail....
Does the P4T-E really have a lousy PCI bus compared to the CUSL2 ?????
Please tell me it isn't so...

Kim.

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 12:02 pm

They both use the same ICH2 chip for the PCI bus so it must be something else.

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 12:34 pm

Describe "much lower." I can load 10 masterVerbs in the subtest on the P4TE, without too much tweaking (rather, none in the BIOS at all!)

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 12:52 pm

Well, I'm running on a (old) Scope/DP card.
On CUSL2 I could load 4 or 5 4080's, now I can only load 3. (That translates to only one in a typical session...)

I did switch to G550 DH from a RivaTNT. Could that be it ???

Kim.

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Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 12:57 pm

oh! did you go into the matrox control panel and turn off bus mastering?

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 1:28 pm

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 1:34 pm

well just as an experiment why dont you put the old video card back in and see if it makes any difference. then you can blame/or eliminate the matrox as the problem.

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 1:39 pm

Good idea, except that I do need 2 monitors...

Kim.

Neutron · Post by **Neutron** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 1:41 pm

as an experiment. afterwards change it back.

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 1:52 pm

I can't.
The RivaTNT is a 3.3volt AGP card, and P4T-E can only use the newer 1.5volt cards...

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Thu Apr 04, 2002 7:05 pm

I used an older Matrox G450 for my masterVerb stress test. I haven't installed my TimeWorks plugins since that board is out, but try the masterVerb test and report how many you get so we can compare & find a solution.

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 5:43 am

6 MasterVerbs...

Kim.

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 1:27 pm

What slot? Sharing an IRQ? Did you install the i850 chipset drivers/IDE drivers yet? You need to, especially if you're using good ole 98SE which you seem to be a big fan of... you should get 10 masterVerbs, with the only tweak being assigning an IRQ to the slot you cards are in, in the BIOS.

Immanuel · Post by **Immanuel** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 1:34 pm

Intel INF update utility installed?

Immanuel

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 2:56 pm

On 2002-04-05 13:27, subhuman wrote:
What slot? Sharing an IRQ? Did you install the i850 chipset drivers/IDE drivers yet?

Tried different slots and IRQ's, and installed the chipset/IDE drivers...
Right now it's in slot4 on IRQ10, not sharing, and IRQ10Priority=1 in registry.
Also tried in XP...
When you get 10 MasterVerbs, are you talking generation one card as the pci-master ? (Just making sure we're on the same page

Kim.

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 3:19 pm

I got 10 masterverbs in WinME/WinXP Pro, P4TE w/ 512megs RDRAM, matrox G450 32meg AGP, and SCOPE/SP board (scope2). Also the same results with 2xPulsar1+Luna2 setup (all sharing IRQ 5)...

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Fri Apr 05, 2002 4:25 pm

That sounds about right.
It seems I have to accept that P4T-E doesn't have quite the bandwidth that CUSL2 does.
I'll fix it by adding a second (new) Scope card

After all, with a 1.6 northwood CPU@1.76 I'm able to run 34 PlatinumVerbs !!! (In LAP 5.1)

Kim.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Tue Jul 09, 2002 11:31 pm

Got 12 Masterverbs running this evening, according the SubTest

Acorp 6A815EPD,
dual P3 1.1GHz
Apacer CL2 512MB @133MHz
Scope SRB + Pulsar2
USB, LAN active.

I think 12/12 is about max reported. Wasn't the Tiger MP so good too? I thought so...

_SuPéR Co0L_