What is wrong with my 8800 GTS?

[crazlunatic]

Basically, in my other thread, we were trying to find out why I had trouble getting 100 fps in source and why my 8800 GTS performance was low. To refresh, these are my specs:

CPU: Intel c2d e6750 2.66 ghz
Mobo: Gigabyte GA P35 DS3R
RAM: 2GB OCZ
Video card: evga 320 mb 8800 gts
PSU: Corsair 620 W

I am pretty sure nothing here is bottlenecking. Corsair makes high quality PSUs and 620 is more than enough power.

We were speculating on the CPU throttling to cool itself down. After some testing, it does throttle itself, however, when a game is launched, it goes back to 2.66 ghz. So throttling should not be the problem.

I uninstalled my drivers through control panel, used driver cleaner pro, and reinstalled eVGA's graphics 8 series drivers just 30 minutes ago. I also disabled a couple of services and satrtup programs. As a result, my 3dmarks score increased by 400 and I am able to achieve stable 90 fps in source. However, an 8800 gts should be able to do at least constant 170+ fps in source, since this is what I got when I first built my computer.

Another thing is that when I play unreal 3, I get a constant 40 fps. My friend has an 8600 GT and he gets constant 40 fps!

Clearly there is something wrong and I have spent way too many hours on this issue. Is it time to RMA? The card is almost 2 months old.

 

[Quiksilver]

What are your source settings and at was resolution are you playing?

Same goes for your friend.

Also do you have vsync turned off?

 

[crazlunatic]

Vsync is turned off. I guess that was a really bad comparison since I just found out he played using a texture setting of 3.

perhaps a better comparison would basically be my efriend who has an 8800 gts. he is able to matain 125+ fps on highest settings in 1280 * 1024. For me, I will dip down to 80s and the fps is very unstable. I know my PC is capable of much more because when I first built my computer 2 months ago, it ran source at 250 fps. Now its not that I need it to run at 250 fps, it just shows that my PC is not running at full potential.

 

[alcoholbob]

Definitely something wrong. I have a 7800GT with a Athlon 64 4200+ and I am getting 110fps on 1280x1024 max settings.

I think the solution is obvious--format your HD.

I do this about once every couple months, it just seems necessary because sooner or later during your use you installed some shareware program or some drivers that you thought was nothing but ends up killing your performance.

 

[crazlunatic]

i just formatted 4 days ago

 

[crazlunatic]

bump sorry. i really need help

 

[Quiksilver]

Sounds to me like its time to RMA the card.

 

[cmdrdredd]

What OS? If you run Vista now it's a bit slower than Xp.

Also try the latest Nvidia beta drivers from nvidia.com DO NOT USE EVGA DRIVERS as they are older revision.

 

[crazlunatic]

oh =o. the number is higher lol. i actually get better performance with evga drivers than nvidia

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: crazlunatic
oh =o. the number is higher lol. i actually get better performance with evga drivers than nvidia

The latest nvidia beta drivers? Not the WHQL drivers, BETA

here
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_163.75.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_163.75.html
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x64_163.75.html

release date October 9 2007.

if the ones from evga are dated 10/9/07 then they are the same. If not try these. I dunno if it'll help, but many people don't realize that Nvidia does not release official WHQL drivers often and you should go with the latest beta set in order to kee up with the latest fixes and whatnot.

Just thought it was worth a shot.

Also remember than XP will be faster than Vista almost always. So comparing what someone gets in XP to what you get in Vista is not really going to be fair. (if you use vista anyway)

And be sure you aren't running AA and AF at higher levels than before/your friend.

 

[mushroomx]

im using a ga-965p-ds3, it might/might not affect you but when i OC my fsb, it lowers my pci-express x16 to 1x... use cpu-z to make sure ur thing is at 16x

 

[WelshBloke]

Originally posted by: Astrallite
Definitely something wrong. I have a 7800GT with a Athlon 64 4200+ and I am getting 110fps on 1280x1024 max settings.

I think the solution is obvious--format your HD.

I do this about once every couple months, it just seems necessary because sooner or later during your use you installed some shareware program or some drivers that you thought was nothing but ends up killing your performance.

Sorry this is off topic, but you really format and reinstall windows every 2 months?

Thats just mad!

 

[alcoholbob]

Nope, but when I was in college I would format like once ever 5-6 months because of random Spyware that would infest my comp. Once I upgraded to XP SP2 most of that stopped, but I used SP1 for a hell of a long time and it was vulnerable to a lot of that stuff.