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mithiral67

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First system stats, 2.4 Pentium, asus p4pe mobo, kingsten 512 2700 ram, western digital 80gig 7200 8mb hard drive.

I purchased a chaintech 5700 ultra w128mbs and xp home

I was running xp professional for about a year (so a lot of junk programs slowing down my system) and a leadtech 4600 ti 128mb and scored 10500 on 3dmark 2001 and 1700 on 3dmark2004, with default settings

I throw in the 5700 with out upgrading to home, to make sure the card worked, scored a 11800 on 3dmark. I had a little trouble getting the card in and moved my one chip of ram to 3 dimm, but got it back to 1 dimm with a little work (this may be the cause of problem)

So I know my new card works, so formatted my c drive, threw in home xp ( lost professional during move back from college )and do the following

Install new drivers from disk, drivers match the newest on nvidias web page
Installed xp updates
Install directx 9

Install 3dmark2001 score 9000, 1400 on 2004 no clue why so low

I tried installing every driver I could find, old and new, from chaintech and nvidia

Updated my bois

Still nothing

I ran the identical test settings, killed windows backup, killed all unnecessary processes, cant remember doing anything different to old set up. I don?t think it is the different between professional and home, couple hundred points, no biggie, but 20% different that is not right

So I threw in old card to see if its something with new card, old card runs almost identical numbers as new card 8900 and 1400, this makes me think there is something else bottle necking the video card, any one have an idea. Could I have damaged, but not broke, my ram when moving it. Could it be a seated wrong

Am I forgetting to install something?

Over clocked my Pentium to 2.53 and video card, scores don?t change, I am so confused please help
 
The difference between XP home and XP pro could be accounting for it. Anybody else ???? And going to XP home is a downgrade BTW. And welcome to the forums !!

(this is my Platinum post !) :beer::beer: :beer: :beer: :beer: :beer:
 
Make certain that you use the following settings, AA/AF set to OFF, high performance and best performance settings, vert synch off by default. You also installed the Intel application accelerator right?
 
EDIT: Welcome to the Forum!

Chipset Drivers ??

Reading the above, I don't see where the Chipset Drivers have yet been installed.
 
He said he installed the Chaintech/NVIDIA drivers, but he also said he installed them AFTER DirectX and the video drivers. You need to install them FIRST. Uninstall the video card drivers, THEN install the motherboard drivers, then reinstall DirectX and the video card drivers. You should (hopefully) be alright then. I don't know why this is such a PITA with new video cards these days, but it seems to afflict almost all of them.
 
Mattias99. He has an Intel mobo. The Chaintek/nVidia drivers are for his vid card (or he has bigger problem than we guessed!)
 
Damn, you're right. Too used to working on AMD systems, where Chaintech also produces motherboards... 😛

Yeah, install the motherboard drivers. You might need to reinstall the other stuff as well...
 
Originally posted by: DAPUNISHER
Make certain that you use the following settings, AA/AF set to OFF, high performance and best performance settings, vert synch off by default. You also installed the Intel application accelerator right?
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aware of these settings, all off

what is intel application accelerator?
 
Originally posted by: Matthias99
He said he installed the Chaintech/NVIDIA drivers, but he also said he installed them AFTER DirectX and the video drivers. You need to install them FIRST. Uninstall the video card drivers, THEN install the motherboard drivers, then reinstall DirectX and the video card drivers. You should (hopefully) be alright then. I don't know why this is such a PITA with new video cards these days, but it seems to afflict almost all of them.
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will start with reformating c driver and then this, should chip set installation be before all of this

and i dont have to worry about mobo bios update right, that is saved on the mobo, not harddrive?
 
I had that problem--went from an old GF2-MX to a 9800 Pro and was very unpleasantly surprised. After double checking that the old vid-card drivers were removed by using a utility called Driver Cleaner, I installed the Intel chipset drivers (I had never done that--didn't know!), which fixed everything, vastly improving the 3D Mark scores and FPS on some 3D games.

Download your chipset drivers from either Asus or Intel, install, reboot, and you should be good to go. (No need to reinstall windows, let alone reformat C:.)
 
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