I recently bought an EP43-DS3 as an urgent replacement for a ASUS board that had died. Everything else got transferred to the Gigabyte board , all drivers updated etc.
But the performance is not very good - mainly because it seems to take forever for HDD access. I'm not a tweaker (so maybe I shouldn't be here?) or a benchmarker so I can't really quantify the difference but it's not just my imagination. Opening Outlook and loading my .PST - adsmittedly a large one - takes between 15 and 20 seconds whereas with the ASUS it took about 5 seconds to do the same.
The rest of the system is fairly high-end so it's a bit disappointing!
I won't bore everyone with the whole spec or benchmarks right now - I'm just looking for other users who might share their experiences. Should I be expecting good performance or is it just a rather pedestrian board?
TIA.
But the performance is not very good - mainly because it seems to take forever for HDD access. I'm not a tweaker (so maybe I shouldn't be here?) or a benchmarker so I can't really quantify the difference but it's not just my imagination. Opening Outlook and loading my .PST - adsmittedly a large one - takes between 15 and 20 seconds whereas with the ASUS it took about 5 seconds to do the same.
The rest of the system is fairly high-end so it's a bit disappointing!
I won't bore everyone with the whole spec or benchmarks right now - I'm just looking for other users who might share their experiences. Should I be expecting good performance or is it just a rather pedestrian board?
TIA.
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