asus K7m w/athlon 600 slower than celeron?

[hohum]

I had an Abit bh6 with a celeron 333 overclocked to 415 or so. I gave that to my dad and built an ASUS K7M with 600MHZ Athlon. The Athlon system seems slower? Sometimes the mouse cursor dissappears when I'm moving around and I have to wait for it to come back.

What really perplexes me is that the hard drive seems slower too. My dad's system has a Maxtor 30 gig (board is ata-33) while the athlon/asus has a 27 gig western digital (board is ata-66). Both drives are ata-66 compliant, 7200 rpm and I checked to make sure the WD drive and board were both running in 66 mode.

Any ideas?

[Ultima]

Need more info.

Is your cache set to the right divider???
Is this athlon running normally, or is it o/c'ed to 600??

My 650 athlon races through things a hell of a lot faster then my celeron 466@600.

It could be that the difference between the celeron and athlon isn't all that noticable for small programs, for they both have a full speed 128Kb cache on-die.

Only the athlon has an extra half speed 512Kb.

Just my little opinion

Pim.

[Swing5]

Try to go to AMD site, i have K7M with 600Mhz not yet o/c, Maxtor 15.3Gb 72,000rpm.
I experienced that too. I followed the set up preparation from AMD, now it is running very well.

[hohum]

ok,
I'm a new at all this build your own stuff, (that celeron system was my 1st) so maybe I shouldn't have tackled an AMD system so soon.

The system is a 600 mhz out of the box, I overclocked to 660 mhz and it is still slow. I'm not sure what the cache divider is or where to change that?

I did notice that when I turned it on for the 1st time, it couldn't get to the cd drive to load some of the drivers, but I loaded the drivers from the asus cd the next time I turned it on. So I'm going to try it again to see if I can get get the cd workin' right away and if that'll help.

I'll also check the amd website.

thanks for the advice

[OuTpaTienT]

isn't there a bios update for the K7M that will fix this?

[hohum]

I went to the ASUS website and downloaded the latest bios. After flashing my bios I performed winbench. Now all winbench measures are higher than they were with celeron and it just feels fast too!


Thanks again