I've been trying to figure out why my HD benchmarks are so slow. I just ran a test with Sandra, and my result was 18000, when it should have been over 30K. If anyone has suggestions on why the number is so low, I'd greatly appreciate it. Also, if anyone has benchmarks of their own on similar hardware they can share, that would be good too.
Here are the details of the test:
- A7N8X mobo rev 1.06, BIOS from December 2002 (I didn't see anything in the later BIOS revisions that I need or that would do something for IDE performance, so I never upgraded)
- Windows XP, SP1, all latest patches
- 120GB WD 8MB drive, set as "Master" on IDE1, no other device on IDE1, 80GB free on drive
- 512MB memory
- I did not install the nVidia IDE drivers because I heard they're not too swift
- any other details I'm missing that would help?
Thanks!
Joe