Help! Did I upgrade or downgrade my motherboard?

I've had the GigabyteGA-965P-DQ6 motherboard for 5 years until recently. Since it doesn't work anymore, I decided to replace it with the GigabyteGA-G31M-ES2L. However I noticed a considerable drop in overall system performance, especially in the graphics department. Looking at the specifications, which motherboard would you PC Hardware experts say is better, or perhaps they are about the same and I just haven't optimised the BIOS settings? Further information include:

CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700

GFX Card: Nvidia 8800 GTX

RAM: 2x2GB RAM, clocking at 800 MHz

Thanks in advance!

There shouldn't be much of a noticeable difference..

There shouldn't be much of a noticeable difference..

Tezcatlipoca666

did you reinstall windows for the new motherboard?darksusperia

using latest drivers for the gpu?darksusperia

Did you install the Windows drivers for the new chipset?

Did you install the Windows drivers for the new chipset?

broken_bass_bin

Have you gone into the Bios and tweaked your settings? It's possible the Bios of your prior motherboard had higher performance (some form of "Turbo" or "Ultra," or some other flamboyant language) as its default setting, or you had tweaks in the prior board you've forgotten, but I'm taking a shot in the dark.

Boz

You disabled the motherboards integrated graphics as well?

Have you gone into the Bios and tweaked your settings? It's possible the Bios of your prior motherboard had higher performance (some form of "Turbo" or "Ultra," or some other flamboyant language) as its default setting, or you had tweaks in the prior board you've forgotten, but I'm taking a shot in the dark.

Boz

Bozanimal

You disabled the motherboards integrated graphics as well?

Tezcatlipoca666

I've also stumbled across the possible cause of slow GPU performance in Yahoo! answers. Apparently, my new motherboard only has a PCI-E x16 1.1 and I'm assuming that my 8800GTX should be inserted in a PCI-E x16 2.0 for maximum performance. Can anyone confirm this? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100507181642AA3E7R5Adversary16

That won't make any difference. That 8800 GTX is nowhere close to saturating the bandwidth on 1.1.

[QUOTE="Adversary16"]I've also stumbled across the possible cause of slow GPU performance in Yahoo! answers. Apparently, my new motherboard only has a PCI-E x16 1.1 and I'm assuming that my 8800GTX should be inserted in a PCI-E x16 2.0 for maximum performance. Can anyone confirm this? http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100507181642AA3E7R5middle-earth88

That won't make any difference. That 8800 GTX is nowhere close to saturating the bandwidth on 1.1.

mhm i got a 5830 and my 1.0 slot doesnt even flinch in the face of it

I heard that if you have an integrated GPU, you you boot first with the integrated GPU, then install your card later

I heard that if you have an integrated GPU, you you boot first with the integrated GPU, then install your card later

wolverine_97

Not necessary. I booted my pc with the 5850 first without using the integrated GPU.

[QUOTE="wolverine_97"]

I heard that if you have an integrated GPU, you you boot first with the integrated GPU, then install your card later

middle-earth88

Not necessary. I booted my pc with the 5850 first without using the integrated GPU.

In your bios set "Init display first" to "PEG" and set "Onboard VGA" to "Enable if no ext PEG". Both should be under Advanced BIOS options.

If they are already set to that then it's probably not related to the onboard graphics.

[QUOTE="wolverine_97"]

I heard that if you have an integrated GPU, you you boot first with the integrated GPU, then install your card later

middle-earth88

Not necessary. I booted my pc with the 5850 first without using the integrated GPU.

[QUOTE="middle-earth88"]

[QUOTE="wolverine_97"]

I heard that if you have an integrated GPU, you you boot first with the integrated GPU, then install your card later

wolverine_97

Not necessary. I booted my pc with the 5850 first without using the integrated GPU.

Have you reinstalled windows yet?

You need to reinstall the operating system and reformat your harddrive!

I have exactly the same gigabyte motherboard with Quad-Core Q6600 processor. I don't have this problem. Previously had a packard bell motherboard. I had to reinstall windows and everything from scratch. That means losing any other programs that I had previously installed.

This may take you a day or two but in the end it should sort it.

Once you put the motherboard then you must connect your graphics card. Then turn on your computer! The onboard chipset would be disabled. Thus it will be your dedicated graphics card that will be your default card.

Hope this helps.

Have you reinstalled windows yet?

You need to reinstall the operating system and reformat your harddrive!

I have exactly the same gigabyte motherboard with Quad-Core Q6600 processor. I don't have this problem. Previously had a packard bell motherboard. I had to reinstall windows and everything from scratch. That means losing any other programs that I had previously installed.

This may take you a day or two but in the end it should sort it.

Once you put the motherboard then you must connect your graphics card. Then turn on your computer! The onboard chipset would be disabled. Thus it will be your dedicated graphics card that will be your default card.

Hope this helps.

BLaZiNg_SPEED

[QUOTE="BLaZiNg_SPEED"]

Have you reinstalled windows yet?

You need to reinstall the operating system and reformat your harddrive!

I have exactly the same gigabyte motherboard with Quad-Core Q6600 processor. I don't have this problem. Previously had a packard bell motherboard. I had to reinstall windows and everything from scratch. That means losing any other programs that I had previously installed.

This may take you a day or two but in the end it should sort it.

Once you put the motherboard then you must connect your graphics card. Then turn on your computer! The onboard chipset would be disabled. Thus it will be your dedicated graphics card that will be your default card.

Hope this helps.

Adversary16

You need to reformat the hard drive first.

Go to start Computer, right click C and click Format... Then after that. Shut down your PC. Insert your graphics card.

Then insert your Windows operating CD ROM. Completely uninstall it. And then freshly install it again.

Then install the CD rom of your GIGABYTE motherboard as well.

Once you see that you don't have any programs installed. That means a virtually empty hard disk. Meaning you should have at least 90% space on your hard disk after this.

If you got all the other programs, etc installed. That means you did not format your hard drive and thus it could cause conflict with your new motherboard. There are traces left from your old motherboard that can interfere with your new motherboard.

That's why formating the hard disk space is always recommended when putting in a new motherboard.:)