Anybody else out there with a 7800 GT setup?

[lavaheadache]

My two rigs are in my sig. I"m kind of dissappointed about the performance in STALKER on the 7800 gt setup. The GT's are on an Xp install and I am curious if others feel as though the performance is lacking. I try to run most sliders @75%, High details (not maximum), the AA slider is all the way down and object only dynamic lighting( not full dynamic) and 1440x 900. Even at those settings I get fps drops deep into the 20's.... is that normal?? My 8800 GTX in Vista 64 @ 1920 x1200 can run max everything although I leave the AA slider all the way down and in the NV control panel i have High quality enabled. The lowest I have ever seen is like 35 fps. Am I expecting too much for the Sli setup in modern games?? In Riddick(one of my favorite games, the GT's are about equal to the GTX using 1440x900 and 1920 X1200 respectively. Actually I would say that the Sli setup is smoother and I'm using identical settings 4X AA max everything except for the different resolutions.


I know that the GT's are running properly, I score around 11,200 in 3dmark 05 with the 3400+ oc'ed to 2.7ghz

 

[CP5670]

I used to have that setup early last year and always felt the same way about it. The cards were clocked at 500mhz too. They worked well in a handful of things like Doom 3 and Riddick, but I found myself playing most games (even things back then) at 1280x960 or lower to get a reasonably good framerate.

Also, the vsync/stuttering issue with SLI can make the framerates look lower than they actually are in some games. I could only get completely smooth performance in modern (say, 2004 and newer) OpenGL games. All other games never seemed quite smooth regardless of what settings I used, even if I played at 640x480.

 

[lavaheadache]

Well I am happy with it for the most part, some things the cards work well at, Others , meh. Needless to say not too shabby of a rig to be in my office at the restaurant. I wonder if crossfire performance has the same "limitations"

 

[enz660hp]

The rig in my sig gets about 8k in 3dmark 05 and around 5.5k in 3dmark 06. The only reason Its still usable nowadays is because I have a 17inch CRT (Have sensitive eyes, can see ghosting in ALL lcd's, drives me nuts) And play at 1280x960 for almost all my games. Oblivion & Stalker were perfectly playable at pretty much full quality, I will be upgrading in a few months with vista & crysis.