8800 gts too slow...

Hi there, I just got a new GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, and performance is
not satisfying,

I get about 5800 points in 3DMark06 in WinXP and it should be around
9000 points.



I got an AMD Athlon X2 5000+ processor and a Chieftec 400W power supply.

Sorry for possible bad English, European here.

Thanks.

Have you installed the CPU driver and optimizer? These made a huge
difference for me. You can get them he

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/..._13118,00.html

The optimizer is at the top and the XP CPU drivers are at the bottom.

On May 22, 3:26 am, citizen513 wrote:
Hi there, I just got a new GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, and performance is
not satisfying,

I get about 5800 points in 3DMark06 in WinXP and it should be around
9000 points.

I got an AMD Athlon X2 5000+ processor and a Chieftec 400W power supply.

Sorry for possible bad English, European here.

Thanks.

citizen513 wrote:
Hi there, I just got a new GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, and performance is
not satisfying,

I get about 5800 points in 3DMark06 in WinXP and it should be around
9000 points.



I got an AMD Athlon X2 5000+ processor and a Chieftec 400W power supply.

Sorry for possible bad English, European here.

Thanks.

400W? I can't imagine that's putting out more than 18A on the 12V, and
having a high wattage CPU can't be good either. The 8800GTS will
automatically ramp down the clock speed whenever there is insufficient
voltage, so no wonder you're getting bad performance. The minimum spec
for total system amperage with an 8800 is 26A.

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citizen513 wrote:
Hi there, I just got a new GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, and performance is
not satisfying,

I get about 5800 points in 3DMark06 in WinXP and it should be around
9000 points.



I got an AMD Athlon X2 5000+ processor and a Chieftec 400W power supply.

Sorry for possible bad English, European here.

Thanks.

400W? I can't imagine that's putting out more than 18A on the 12V, and
having a high wattage CPU can't be good either. The 8800GTS will
automatically ramp down the clock speed whenever there is insufficient
voltage, so no wonder you're getting bad performance. The minimum spec
for total system amperage with an 8800 is 26A.


I guess that's it then...
Well, I will try with a different PSU and report results here.

But I can see clocks of the card all the time (atitool) and they are
fixed, 500gpu - 800mem, so I don't know how they could be ramped down?
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In article , says...
citizen513 wrote:
Hi there, I just got a new GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, and performance is
not satisfying,

I get about 5800 points in 3DMark06 in WinXP and it should be around
9000 points.

I guess that's it then...
Well, I will try with a different PSU and report results here.

But I can see clocks of the card all the time (atitool) and they are
fixed, 500gpu - 800mem, so I don't know how they could be ramped down?

Ask the question here...
http://www.devhardware.com/forums/nvidia-video-card-6/

someone there might have an answer for you.

citizen513 wrote:
In article , says...
citizen513 wrote:
Hi there, I just got a new GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, and performance is
not satisfying,

I get about 5800 points in 3DMark06 in WinXP and it should be around
9000 points.



I got an AMD Athlon X2 5000+ processor and a Chieftec 400W power supply.

Sorry for possible bad English, European here.

Thanks.
400W? I can't imagine that's putting out more than 18A on the 12V, and
having a high wattage CPU can't be good either. The 8800GTS will
automatically ramp down the clock speed whenever there is insufficient
voltage, so no wonder you're getting bad performance. The minimum spec
for total system amperage with an 8800 is 26A.


I guess that's it then...
Well, I will try with a different PSU and report results here.

But I can see clocks of the card all the time (atitool) and they are
fixed, 500gpu - 800mem, so I don't know how they could be ramped down?

Are you sure this is not a CPU problem ? What do you get for SuperPI
of 1 million digits ?

http://www.xtremesystems.com/pi/
http://www.xtremesystems.com/pi/super_pi_mod-1.5.zip

If the CPU does not give a good benchmark, then I would not expect
3DMark to do well either. My computer gets 48 seconds at this
moment in SuperPI, and you should do better (less time) than that.

Paul

What settings are you running. Is Vsync on?AA and anisotropic filtering. The
highest benchmarks are on systems with all these OFF.Try that.


"citizen513" wrote in message
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Hi there, I just got a new GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, and performance is
not satisfying,

I get about 5800 points in 3DMark06 in WinXP and it should be around
9000 points.



I got an AMD Athlon X2 5000+ processor and a Chieftec 400W power supply.

Sorry for possible bad English, European here.

Thanks.

In article ,
"don't look" don't says...
What settings are you running. Is Vsync on?AA and anisotropic filtering. The
highest benchmarks are on systems with all these OFF.Try that.


"citizen513" wrote in message
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Hi there, I just got a new GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, and performance is
not satisfying,

I get about 5800 points in 3DMark06 in WinXP and it should be around
9000 points.



I got an AMD Athlon X2 5000+ processor and a Chieftec 400W power supply.

Sorry for possible bad English, European here.

Thanks.


Thank you good people,
I've found the problem.

I installed the card in second PCIe slot, on my DFi ultra-d board,
and the maual says it then runs at X2 instead X16 speed.
Checked with CPU-Z and really it is so.

So i have to move some jupers to enable 8X, at least untill I change the
pasive NB cooler that obstructs the card when in primary PCIe slot.

According to DFi forums, it improves perfs for about 20 %, exactly what
I was missing.

Thanks, SOLVED

citizen513 wrote:
In article ,
"don't look" don't says...

What settings are you running. Is Vsync on?AA and anisotropic filtering. The
highest benchmarks are on systems with all these OFF.Try that.


"citizen513" wrote in message
...

Hi there, I just got a new GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, and performance is
not satisfying,

I get about 5800 points in 3DMark06 in WinXP and it should be around
9000 points.



I got an AMD Athlon X2 5000+ processor and a Chieftec 400W power supply.

Sorry for possible bad English, European here.

Thanks.


Thank you good people,
I've found the problem.

I installed the card in second PCIe slot, on my DFi ultra-d board,
and the maual says it then runs at X2 instead X16 speed.
Checked with CPU-Z and really it is so.

So i have to move some jupers to enable 8X, at least untill I change the
pasive NB cooler that obstructs the card when in primary PCIe slot.

According to DFi forums, it improves perfs for about 20 %, exactly what
I was missing.

Thanks, SOLVED

I find all this wierd. From everything I read about PCI-express when it
came out (not to be confused with PCI-x and PCI-e), the "x factor" was
the slots width, not its speed. So, how does a mobo have a x16 width
slot with only x2 width pins?

In article ,
says...
citizen513 wrote:
In article ,
"don't look" don't says...

What settings are you running. Is Vsync on?AA and anisotropic filtering. The
highest benchmarks are on systems with all these OFF.Try that.


"citizen513" wrote in message
...

Hi there, I just got a new GeForce 8800 GTS 320MB, and performance is
not satisfying,

I get about 5800 points in 3DMark06 in WinXP and it should be around
9000 points.



I got an AMD Athlon X2 5000+ processor and a Chieftec 400W power supply.

Sorry for possible bad English, European here.

Thanks.


Thank you good people,
I've found the problem.

I installed the card in second PCIe slot, on my DFi ultra-d board,
and the maual says it then runs at X2 instead X16 speed.
Checked with CPU-Z and really it is so.

So i have to move some jupers to enable 8X, at least untill I change the
pasive NB cooler that obstructs the card when in primary PCIe slot.

According to DFi forums, it improves perfs for about 20 %, exactly what
I was missing.

Thanks, SOLVED

I find all this wierd. From everything I read about PCI-express when it
came out (not to be confused with PCI-x and PCI-e), the "x factor" was
the slots width, not its speed. So, how does a mobo have a x16 width
slot with only x2 width pins?


I don't know about that, mobo is DFI ultra-d lan party NF4, socket 939.
It has two slots, upper and bottom, both declarated as X16 speed.
Wen you plug 2 cards (sli) both slots ale lowered to x8 speed - on all
mobos with SLI.
But on this one when you plug only one card in the bottom one it goes
down to x2 speed.

Don't know why, but it is so.
So i just ordered chipset low profile heatsink that won't obstruck my
GFcard, and will plug the card back to slot no1 at x16 speed.

Nasty one, that stuff should be written somewhere on the box..