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On Apr 24, 4:35 pm, "Mr.E Solved!" wrote:
First of One wrote:
Just to be clear, the 300 MHz memory clock you saw was in 3D, right? Most
nVidia cards since the FX5800 throttle back under 2D to conserve power. You
can confirm this by running Rivatuner's real-time strip charts.
The OP couldn't even be bothered to run any benchmarks, he does not know
and seemingly does not care that his card might just be a-ok.

OP if that ram really is clocked slower, you can easily increase it.
Sadly, it is a process that involves a minimum of hand-wringing, so you
might be disappointed.

The 300 MHz is in 3d as well (effective 600MHz) (I have tested it with
AtiTool).
Based on this web site:
http://liightt.blogspot.com/2008/01/...dr2-512mb.html

The card run Crysis at 14-22 fps at 1024 x 768 and 9fps at 1280x1024
at medium setting.
I don't know if this is OK?

I do not think my card is OK based solely on the fact that my card
runs at a 9.6GB/s memory bandwidth, compared to a 22.00Gb/s of the
reference card.
The strange thing is when I did a Google search on Sparkle 8600GT at
540/600
the only results I see are originated from Poland or Lithuania...I
never see a result from US, UK or Australia. That makes me think this
is a strange card, for a different market...But somehow made it to
Australia, where I may be the only one who got it. (Conspiracy
Theory

I may have a weird psychology that if I did not know about the
specifications of the card, I might have been happy with it (Ignorance
is bliss) but once I knew about its abysmal memory speed compared to
other normal 8600GT cards, I could not get over that fact and now
looked at the card with different views...
I know it's weird to comprehend, but honestly that was what I feel.
Performance anxiety kills joy....


Oh dear. I do empathize with you, Aussies have a difficult hardware
market. High prices, limited availability, ironically all while being
substantially closer to the factory. To top it all off it appears AU is
where the dreg products get sent, no matter what the product.

The good news is, if you are satisfied with 22 FPS MAX, 14 AVG and 9 FPS
MIN in Crysis @ 1024, then you are good to go. Those settings are so low
as to be considered unplayable, so you got lucky.

Run 3DMark, get FPS and shader scores, then use ORB to see how your
results compare, all the while saving your tokens and stamps and juju
beans to trade for a better card, the 8600's are runts of the
gaming-card litter.