Isn't the 7800 GS suppose to be faster than the X800 GTO ??

[CTrain]

My system is a cheap Sempron 2800+(the $80 special from Frys)

I bought a X800 GTO from Newegg.
While I'm waiting for the card to arrive, I saw a 7800GS at Bestbuy.
Reading at various site, it suppose to be the X850xt rival.

So I spent the last 4 days with the 7800gs in the system and I get nothing but problems.
The main problem was the constant freezing of the game(somtimes it continue after 10 secs or so and sometimes it reboot the computer)
I'm guessing cause of the overclocking(but the puter was barely OC).
I reset it at default and it still freezes but it did stop restarting the computer.
Beside that it runs very sluggish.....I had to set it on Medium Q, 800x600, no shadow and x2aa to to able to run the game smoothly.

I'm thinking now, I might need to buy a better CPU if I'm having that much problem with the 7800gs.
So the X800 GTO came today and to my amazement, playing Q4 is just awesome.
I even OC the puter back to where it was and OC the GTO to 420core/510 and still no freezing.
Right now I have the GTO at the exact setting except I bumped it to 1024x768 and it still runs smoother.

BTW, My computer is pretty clean right now and the drivers and up-to-date so my only conclusion would be the GTO is a faster card ????

Did I do something wrong ??

 

[BassBomb]

power supply? im assuming that 7800GS is beastly drawing power compared to your X800GTO

7800GS will outperform a GTO

you may be running into driver conflicts if u didnt uninstall and doa ll that correctly

 

[buzzsaw13]

Post the brand and model of your powersupply, also have you ran driver cleaner after swapping the cards?

 

[CTrain]

Can't be, I have a heavy duty 430 watts PS, NOT the cheap kind either.

I'm not a computer nooB either which is why I find this very perplexing.

 

[CTrain]

OK, it ain't exactly the great stuff but should be sufficience for most stuff.
LINK

 

[zagood]

You did something wrong. Everyone does it, don't act all innocent.

lol...probably not though, just playing.

IIRC there were AGP-Bridge issues with some motherboard chipsets when using the 7800GS AGP. Don't have time to look into it right now, I'll try to track down some info for you later.

-z

 

[Ika]

could be that you got a bad card. if you feel like it, try your luck again with another card.

 

[CaiNaM]

the 7800GS is substantially faster then a stock x800GTO (if you could unlock the disabled pipes in the GTO and overclock it to x850XT speeds, you'd be in the 7800GS performance area), so either you did something wrong, have an unlikely compatibility issue with your existing hardware, or you had the unfortunate experience of getting a defective GS.

 

[buzzsaw13]

I think it might be the power supply, the specs you provided says your PSU only has 19A on the 12V rail. I remember a friend of mine having troubles running a 6800GS on a 430W with 18A on the 12V rail.

 

[CTrain]

Yeah, I do realize something is wrong in the system somewhere.(which is probably why I keep getting the freeze up)
Hard to figure out though since the system is clean.

Oh well, I returned the 7800gs back to BB today.
Got the X800gto refurbished for $121...can't beat that.
It has a R430 core though and I read that it doesn't OC too well.

 

[BassBomb]

your psu is definatley the problem, 430 watts means nothing if u dont have the current to back it up

get an enermax

 

[Fardringle]

I agree with the power supply suggestions. I used to have a 430 watt power supply from a "questionable brand" that couldn't even boot my system with nothing but a Sempron 2600+, one stick of RAM, a single hard drive (no optical drives) and a 6600GT video card in it. I got a QUALITY 400 watt PSU and don't have any problems at all with the same system heavily overclocked with two sticks of RAM, two hard drives, a DVD/RW drive, a firewire PCI card, a PCI sound card, and a half dozen USB devices.