Is it the video card?

[jtzou]

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I bought it retail. Everything reports it as a Ti4600... I can't locate the rpboelm. 3DMarks runs fine at 120 FSB... Prime dies after anywhere between 4 and 31 minutes... I figure I have a junk OC chip... SiSandra has it acting as a 2.6 GHz processor... in fact, SiSandra says my CPU and memory are running at where they say they are... The only test I have for my video card is 3DMarks... and its showing that its not doing well... what's wrong?

 

[jtzou]

WHOA... I don't think its my video card... I just ran the test at 1x... and um... I got 6175

http://service.madonion.com/compare?2k1=4130561

Now what could it be?

 

[AnAndAustin]

Drivers, try the latest OFFICIAL ones from manu and chipset of the card. Also check the settings, things like Vsync and forcing AA can all play a part, but a Duron1ghz & GF4TI4200 can kick out more than 6500 marks, so there's definitely something odd.

Another thing to try is to check the BIOS settings (disable shadows and caches for gfx card/AGP) and set AGP Aperture to 128MB (256MB is unecessary, but not overly wasteful). Also ensure you have assigned IRQ for AGP/VGA.

Deinstall all of your gfx drivers (you may need to locate and delete NV*.INF from the System INF folder), then run Detonator Destroyer, then reinstall the latest official drivers, then reinstall DX8.1. Otherwise check what perf you are getting from actual games or other benchmarks.

 

[jtzou]

I'm using Nvidia 29.42 drivers straight from a clean install. Chaintech doesn't have newer than 28.** i think... There aren't shadow or cache settings for graphics card in the BIOS and I'm getting no IRQ conflicts. I used to use 256 aperature, but that made little/no change. For the last point you made, I've already done clean install, video drivers, then DX8.1... so I'm pretty sure its a hardware problem...

 

[AnAndAustin]

Have you tried setting ALL hw back to defaults?

 

[jtzou]

By all do you mean just the BIOS? or like, a clean install of everything? I started at defaults, then being disappointed w/ my score, I started tweaking stuff like AA manual off... V-Sync off, etc. No major improvements...

 

[Blurry]

Hmm..seems as if you might have the same problem as I did. I use to get very low marks on my Ti 500. Here's what you do.
Install the latest Intel INF drivers

Then install Intel's application accelerator

After doing this, you'll hopefully see a major boost. I know I did because I went from 6638 up to 9450.

 

[jtzou]

Already installed and uninstalled and reinstalled the Intel INF drivers. Still no go... Done 2 clean installs already... takes so LONG!! Formatting an 120 GB HDD each time I reinstall just to make it completely clean... But I'll try it yet again... Tonite's my last chance for a few days... getting wisdom teeth pulled...

 

[max105]

Did you also try installing the Application Accelerator? I've heard that helped alot of people.

 

[jtzou]

Yup, installed that right before INF... or was it after?... btw, what does it do? Other than the fact that I can do accoustics for my HDD, I don't see very much that it does...

[edit] I reinstalled the Intel Application Accelerator... (because it says do it after the INF)... now I get 7007. Moving up... but not to where I want it...

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