Hi all,

I've just built my new PC using an A7N8X Deluxe board (specs below),
carrying over my ATI 8500DV card from my old machine. Having previously used
Gigabyte boards, I'm very hopeful that a move to Asus will get me a stable
machine for a change! :-)

The first thing that was more than a bit strange was that, for some reason,
the graphics card, sound card and another card were not recognised by
Windows (although, obviously, it could recognise the ATI card enough to send
a signal to the monitor!); however, manually installing the drivers seems to
have solved that (mostly).

The problem, though, is that the graphics performance seems really quite
creaky - my ATI card certainly had a good deal more punch in my old system.
I haven't yet run any 3DMark benchmark yet, but I don't have any numbers to
compare with.

I've yet to try any 3D apps with the new system, but 2D performance seems to
be particularly below what I had befo even scrolling web pages can be a
bit of a pain.

I've got the latest ATI drivers and the latest nForce2 chipset drivers
installed.

I can see a few settings in the BIOS (1006) that could be useful; AGP 8X and
fast-writes are enabled, graphics aperture size is set to 64MB (the amount
of memory on the 8500DV), but I've not tried changing anything else (AGP
Frequency, Video RAM Cacheable?).

Anyone any ideas?

New system:

A7N8X Deluxe rev 2.0
Athlon 3000+
ATI AIW 8500DV
2x512MB PC2700 (not dual channel)
Creative Audigy player card

(Old system:

Gigabyte 7VRXP
Athlon 2000+
Graphics, memory, audio as above.)

Very many thanks in advance,

Peter