Hello,
finally after a lot of wait and troubles I was able to assemble my system and make some test.
Specs:
CUV4X-DLS
4GB ECC REG (3,5GB recognized)
2x Pentium III-s 1400@ 1470MHz (140 FSB, little oc)
Intel 320 SSD 180GB with IDE adapter
VGA (see below)
AUDIO X-FI Xtreme gamer PCI
USB 2.0 card (VIA chipset... ouch, maybe better find a NEC one?)
First, it seems that my CUV4X-DLS has some troubles to PS2 ports, in fact I cannot use both of them without issues.
Then I realized that USB from VIA 133a sucks, and sucks a lot, but in a very strange way:
Whenever I install Creative drivers (for my X-fi PCI), being the DanielK or PAx or regular ones, the USB become unstable, even the mouse starts to "stutter" a lot.
I am not able to restore the situation even when uninstalling Creative drivers / removing the card, I have to reinstall the Operative System (XP-Pro).
It is a bit milded when using a separate 2.0 USB card , but you can still feel something is not smooth even on USB 2.0 ports, this after installing Xfi drivers, not before...
Then with the AGP cards:
6800GT 128Mb (NV40) : 3dMark 2005 score: 1369
X1950 pro 512Mb: 3dMark 2005 score: 1110
7900GS 518Mb: 3dMark 2005 score: 1230
HD4650 1Gb DDR2 : 3dMar 2005 score: 4607
Don't know for you but the results are nonsense to me... Looking for your comments and suggestions.
In any case the HD4650 works like a charm, no trouble installing it (Cat 12.3).
X1950 pro was with Omega drivers.