TheRapture
Supreme [H]ardness
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WOW, what can I say...I was on the original shipping BIOS until last night. Performance was a bit...less than I was expecting to see. WAY better than my old XP but still seemed a bit behind others with some similar setups...well...
I flashed the BIOS to the "official" but not released in USA yet bios from Chaintech. HOLY MOLY...what a difference....maybe my old BIOS was buggy, but I gained about 10% performance across the bench in Far Cry and Doom3, putting me right on target with what I was seeing on the net using an A64 overclocked like mine and this same motherboard. For example in Far Cry using the Regulator demo, 1280x1024 everything to "very high" in game, no FSAA and 4x AF, I was getting 90fps AFTER the bios flash, and only 81fps before. Repeated and verified many times...I play SP with 4x FSAA and MP with 0x FSAA for more speed.
Anyway, just a heads up, if some of you need this new bios and can't find it, PM me and I will e-mail it to you....it made a huge difference for me...I will test some more synthetic benches and post back here...
I flashed the BIOS to the "official" but not released in USA yet bios from Chaintech. HOLY MOLY...what a difference....maybe my old BIOS was buggy, but I gained about 10% performance across the bench in Far Cry and Doom3, putting me right on target with what I was seeing on the net using an A64 overclocked like mine and this same motherboard. For example in Far Cry using the Regulator demo, 1280x1024 everything to "very high" in game, no FSAA and 4x AF, I was getting 90fps AFTER the bios flash, and only 81fps before. Repeated and verified many times...I play SP with 4x FSAA and MP with 0x FSAA for more speed.
Anyway, just a heads up, if some of you need this new bios and can't find it, PM me and I will e-mail it to you....it made a huge difference for me...I will test some more synthetic benches and post back here...