Horrible frame rates on my computer

[taltamir]

OC your CPU to at least 3ghz and try again.

 

[smithkt]

Originally posted by: taltamir
OC your CPU to at least 3ghz and try again.

Please explain the logic to this response.

I'm fairly certain he should be able to expect significantly better frame rates than those he's listed at stock speeds. I doubt his CPU speed has anything to do with this.

Question to the OP....

Your sig says a 7800GTX and your post says 9600GT with the rest of the specs being the same. Did you have the same issue when running with the 7800GTX or did this only happen after you updated to the 9600GT?

 

[AzN]

Those 3dmark vantage scores seem right to me considering it's a 9600gt on 2.2 ghz core 2 duo.

 

[Elvis2]

I installed a pair of evga 9600gt SSC's yesterday ( got in on that Fry's $59.00 after mir deal) using the 175 drivers. Just installed the 177's and 3dm 2k6 score jumped 900 points to 10,352. Not bad for a driver change. I'll see how it does gaming but I'm pretty much into the HL2 series now so I may not see that much of a difference.

 

[SolMiester]

Are you running DX10 API or DX9?.....DX10 on Crysis with that card would be terrible.......Not sure if DX9 would kick in on the older games or not.....

 

[ashishmishra]

Originally posted by: smithkt
This sounds eerily similar to the problems people (including myself) were reporting 7-8 months ago with 8800GT boards. The Power Sentinel was downclocking boards as a result of an incorrect determination that the power supply was insufficient. At the time, I waited 2 1/2 months for a driver release to correct the problem. I believe it was 169.44 at that time. That fix should have been in all the new releases since then. Not saying it's the same problem, but the symptoms sound exactly the same. Unexplained poor frame rates despite all the clocks being reported correctly.

For a while, people were blaming the PSUs, but eventually, Nvidia released the driver fix.

People running Vista received no warning. People running XP would get a warning message when Windows started up.

It would be a shame if this is the same issue popping up again.

What he said, most likely the same problem. Though since it is not widely reported it might be your particular board's bios/driver combo idk or just a plain hardware failure, try to RMA it if you can.

 

[JosephBAdams]

I just tried removing the card from my motherboard. I've worked in computers for 15 years...and I've never seen something like this: the card will not come out of my PCI Express slot. I've removed cards from PCI Express slots hundreds of times...there's nothing obstructing the removal of the card. It's simply not budging...??!!!!!!

 

[Tempered81]

little pin to push at the end of the slot - it's a plastic lever, and there's a screw holding the card in too

 

[JosephBAdams]

jared, thanks but I have been working on computers for more than 15 years. I have removed the screw, released the security pin on the end of the slot, and still the card will not budge on the side nearest to the back of the computer.

 

[Tempered81]

Hey i was just kidding, hahah. Seriously, you may have to yank on it a little. Never heard of such a problem before.

 

[JosephBAdams]

Heh, I've yanked on it enough that I'm scared to yank any more.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: JosephBAdams
I just tried removing the card from my motherboard. I've worked in computers for 15 years...and I've never seen something like this: the card will not come out of my PCI Express slot. I've removed cards from PCI Express slots hundreds of times...there's nothing obstructing the removal of the card. It's simply not budging...??!!!!!!

Sounds like the problem may be with some of the pins not making connection.

Had enough for basic card operation but not the extended bus.

You may be lucky it was running at all.

 

[JosephBAdams]

I think all the pins are connected. Then again, that's based much more on what the card looks like than anything else.