Poor performance with 6800GT please help!

[husker4life]

My system specs:
athlon 64 3000 (stock)
evga 6800GT (stock) 60c idle 70-75c when playing games
asus K8N-E deluxe nforce 3 250gb mobo
1 gig XMS corsair memory
120GB WD HD
Lite-on DVD/CD RW
sound blaster audigy 2 zs
antec SLK3700 350w
Windows XP SP2, directx 9.0c, Nvidia 61.77 forceware drivers

Farcry version 1.2 (max settings no aa/af) running fort demo using bench em all program
1600x1200 38 fps
1280x1024 49 fps

Doom 3 version 1.0 (high setting no aa/af) running timedemo demo1
1600x1200(vsync off) 44 fps
1600x1200(vsync on) 32 fps
1280x1024(vsync off) 51 fps
1280x1024(vsync on) 43 fps

Im not happy at all with those numbers compared to computers with the same specs as mine, its running about 30-50% less then some benchmarks ive seen on the internet. I did switch video boards during the build process, i went from a 9800 pro to the 6800GT and when i got the computer i still had an ATI directory on the hard drive which is not good. I ran driver cleaner and cleaned out the ATI stuff but i still get the same crappy fps numbers. Im not sure what to do at this point any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Viper96720]

run timedemo demo1 1 otherwise you gotta run the demo a couple of times.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

check and make sure your running at 8x agp. If your not and probably even if you are update your mobo drivers.

 

[husker4life]

Do you mean upgrade the bios? The version i have of the bios is 1001 and there is 1004 out for my mobo, that involves upgrading from msdos and i have no floppy drive just the cd/dvd drive how the hell can i do it.

 

[BFG10K]

Run dxdiag and make sure your hardware passes all of the AGP tests. Also make sure it's reporting the correct MHz for your CPU.

The version i have of the bios is 1001 and there is 1004 out for my mobo, that involves upgrading from msdos and i have no floppy drive just the cd/dvd drive how the hell can i do it.

You can make a bootable CD or some mobos allow flashing from Windows. Also make sure you have the latest chipset drivers installed for your system.

 

[jim1976]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
Run dxdiag and make sure your hardware passes all of the AGP tests. Also make sure it's reporting the correct MHz for your CPU.

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<hr>The version i have of the bios is 1001 and there is 1004 out for my mobo, that involves upgrading from msdos and i have no floppy drive just the cd/dvd drive how the hell can i do it.<hr></blockquote>
You can make a bootable CD or some mobos allow flashing from Windows. Also make sure you have the latest chipset drivers installed for your system.

Do what BFG10K told you.
Also I see that you o/c. Sometimes reaching the limits of your potential o/c and go beyond that can cause your cpu to underperform. Though I doubt by this much. Indeed your scores are too low

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: husker4life
Do you mean upgrade the bios? The version i have of the bios is 1001 and there is 1004 out for my mobo, that involves upgrading from msdos and i have no floppy drive just the cd/dvd drive how the hell can i do it.

You can flash most newer ASUS mobo's from windows.

 

[husker4life]

Originally posted by: Dman877
<blockquote>quote:
<hr><i>Originally posted by: <b>husker4life</b></i>
Do you mean upgrade the bios? The version i have of the bios is 1001 and there is 1004 out for my mobo, that involves upgrading from msdos and i have no floppy drive just the cd/dvd drive how the hell can i do it.<hr></blockquote>


You can flash most newer ASUS mobo's from windows.

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I went to the asus website and it says to create a floppy disk and boot to msdos, is there a way to create a bootable cd?

 

[reallyscrued]

AGP aperature to 256.