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Geforce6800gt/Shuttle SK41G

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xd99

Junior Member
Hi,

I bought a Geforce 6800 GT about 2 months ago, mainly so that I could just complete Farcry, HL2, Doom3, etc. When I first started playing, considering the amount I paid for it, I didnt think it was that much of an improvement.

I completed Halflife2 and whilst it looked amazing the framerate wasnt that great. Recently I've started playing Halflife2 deathmatch and with one other person in the server the framerate is awful? I put my old Ti 4200 back in to check, and although i didn't have filtering on, it ran FASTER! (I also tried the gf6800 without filtering to no avail).

I've tried the official NVIDIA drivers, and several beta ones including the latest ones.
I've also reformatted the computer, messed about with the BIOS settings, underclocked the card, took other hardware out of my system but with no avail.

My system specs are:

AthlonXP 2400+ (OC'ed to 2600+ but also tried underclockin (for card).
768mb Ram (PC2100)
1x120gb 1x 160gb disks
DVD Writer
No PCI cards.

I think my shuttle only has a 200W psu, but since the computer works fine, I don't see how this could be a problem.

But saying that, the only thing that I could see attributing to this problem is overloading the power supply? I can't imagine what else?!!?

Its a XFX Geforce6800GT 256mb card btw.

If anyone could help me out I would be massively greatful, because unless this gets sorted the card is going to be ebaY'd 🙂

EDIT: link to my card: http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=14-150-074&depa=0
 
Most everything I have seen says you need a 350 watt PSU minimum to run a 6800gt, especially if you have 2 HD's etc.. If your 200watt is taxed quite heavily you could run in to problems with the voltage not being steady.
 
OK I'll try just using a PSU from my server and see if that improves the performance.

I'll come back and let you know.

Dave
 
Sorry, not true.. I have a Shuttle with the 250watt power supply and i am running a 6800GT overclocked to near Ultra speeds. I do not have any issues. Half life runs fairly smooth althought it does have some issues with Nvidia Cards. Doom 3 on the other hand runs fluid at max settings.

AMD 64 3500+
1gig mem
1 30g drive
1 200g drive
6800 GT OC

250watt powersupply.

 
On some of the outside levels i was getting 10fps 🙁

Maybe its a driver problem. Will try tonight and let you know.
 
something is definitely not right.. i am playing at 1280x1024 with 4xAA 8xAF and the game runs without a hitch, even in very chaotic situations.

Is that your 3d mark scores or someone elses? Which is OC'ed to about ultra speeds?

I overclocked my card and hit a little over 12k in 3DMark03.

i really dont know what it could be.. could be drivers? bad ram? bad card?
 
Yeah they're my scores.

I thought something was wrong after paying quite so much for the card and getting that kind of performance 🙁

I didn't have a chance to plug a bigger power supply into my shuttle tonight, will probably try tommorrow

 
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