P5B-E and PCI-E in x1

[Prophet]

I seemed to have it fixed, but thought I would just share this experience.

 

So I started having some lagging graphics in Americas Army. So I ran some Sandra benchmarks, and they were great. So not a CPU problem.

 

Ran 3DMark06, and I got about 3300. This is horrible. Finally found mention that maybe my PCI-E slot was running in x1 instead of x16. Ran CPU-Z, and sure enough, x1.

 

Now Lock On had no problems, but we all know why that is.

 

Ok so eventually I found, I had to OVERCLOCK my PCI-E bus to 105 from 100. Anything higher and my integrated NIC wouldnt work. AND I had to increase my NorthBridge and SouthBridge voltage.

 

What a PITA. Was amazing though that Lock On had no performance hit. I knew it was CPU dependant, but does it run software rendering or something :music_whistling:

 

Anyways, its good info to know if you ever run into this issue.

[Pilotasso]

I dont even think Lockon uses T&L. Perfomance plumets with few objects. I remender running Demos with much more polys with my Gforce 4 card and got better FPS.