No gain in performance felt after upgrading mobo,cpu,ram - Page 3 - Overclock.net

stangcharger · 09-13-09

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Originally Posted by nhc

I did not REINSTALL WINDOWS, I only did a REPAIR and after windows booted up, I installed all the new drivers for the mobo. Is this ok?

no, you need to re-install windows as a whole and save any files you want. installing new drivers still won't run right. I found this out first hand awhile back.

that's why this question has been asked alot. it is something you need to do since you changed all main hardware. Try it and i guarantee youll see a big difference. going from 266mhz ram to 800mhz ram should have made a huge difference alone.

JeremyFr · 09-13-09

Ok guys, read his entire post, he said Pentium Dual Core but in 2006, Pentium Dual Core's didn't exhist in 2006, He had a Pentium D, this is further made clear by the fact he was using DDR memory at 266Mhz. So what he has now is a HUGE upgade over his prior Mobo/CPU/RAM configuration unfortunately Dell use's sub par parts and his HDD is now his bottleneck, undoubtably its an IDE Drive.

To the O.P. its time to upgrade to a good Sata drive and do a fresh install of Windows.

Edit: Not to mention there is no 2.8Ghz Pentium Dual Core only Pentium D huge difference there lol

jam3s · 09-13-09

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Originally Posted by nhc

Hi,

I had a DELL Diemension 5150 bought in Mid 2006. It was Intel Pentium Dual Core running at 2.8 GHz and 3 GB of ram at 266Mhz.

Recently, I changed out my mobo to Gigabyte MA785GM, CPU to AMD ATHLON II X2 250 and 4 GB ram at 800Mhz. But I don't feel any performance gain. The windows boot up time is the same, or even slower?

I'm not going to bother reading all of these posts here but I just have to respond.

You didn't do much of an upgrade, if at all. I can easily see why you don't see the performance gain.

Good luck, brother.

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Originally Posted by JeremyFr

Ok guys, read his entire post, he said Pentium Dual Core but in 2006, Pentium Dual Core's didn't exhist in 2006, He had a Pentium D, this is further made clear by the fact he was using DDR memory at 266Mhz. So what he has now is a HUGE upgade over his prior Mobo/CPU/RAM configuration unfortunately Dell use's sub par parts and his HDD is now his bottleneck, undoubtably its an IDE Drive.

To the O.P. its time to upgrade to a good Sata drive and do a fresh install of Windows.

Yeah, that was his fault for saying Pentium Dual Core in the OP and not changing it..

xxicrimsonixx · 09-13-09

Get some HDDs in RAID 0 or some SSDs, and then you will see a nice speed up for bootup times. In things like gaming and such, you will see a nice performance boost, because the architecture on the x2 is much more powerful than your old Pentium.

GSingh · 09-13-09

Two things:

1. Buy a WD black or a Seagate 7200.12
2. Re-install Windows.

Then you'll see your upgrade being worthwhile.

BTW, did you upgrade RAM, CPU and MOBO JUST for boot times? poor decision there but hopefully you do some gaming or other tasks that will take advantage of the new hardware.

dixson01974 · 09-13-09

Seagate harddrives are crap do not git one . Go with WD black .

GSingh · 09-13-09

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Originally Posted by dixson01974

Seagate harddrives are crap do not git one . Go with WD black .

7200.12 is not a crap drive. "git" it.

dixson01974 · 09-13-09

Seagate harddrives will crash way before wd or maxtor will .

nhc · 09-13-09

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeremyFr

Ok guys, read his entire post, he said Pentium Dual Core but in 2006, Pentium Dual Core's didn't exhist in 2006, He had a Pentium D, this is further made clear by the fact he was using DDR memory at 266Mhz. So what he has now is a HUGE upgade over his prior Mobo/CPU/RAM configuration unfortunately Dell use's sub par parts and his HDD is now his bottleneck, undoubtably its an IDE Drive.

To the O.P. its time to upgrade to a good Sata drive and do a fresh install of Windows.

Edit: Not to mention there is no 2.8Ghz Pentium Dual Core only Pentium D huge difference there lol

Sorry for the confusion.

I had a Pentium D 820 at 2.8 Ghz with a SATA hardrive then.