Poor Performance on 8800 GTS

Hello everyone! Just got my new pc parts, installed everything, installed newest bios and drivers, booted up winXP and run 3DMark06. I got pretty low mark (around 4000) and at some tests (e.g. Canyon Fight test) i got framerates such as 1 (yes it sound rediculous i know...)

My specs are:

Intel Core Duo 2 @ 2.400 Mhz
BFG 8800GTS
OCZ 8500 2GB(2x1GB) @ 2.1V, 1066Mhz (well i had to set the clock to 800Mhz or the sys would crash... any help there?)
ASUS Striker Extreme 680i (updated BIOS to newest version 7010 methinks)
2xWD 320 GB
Akasa 650W PSU
the rest doesnt really matter here does it..

I have played around with the BIOS settings, but I just cant get it right. I a question aswell: should the Linkboost, SLI Ready Memory and GPU EX features be enabled in the BIOS or not (note, im NOT using SLI)

I would be very greatfull if somebody could help me get those FPS up

 

What video card do you have? If i were you i'd set everthing to default (no overclocking) and see if your scores differ.

By the way, welcome to Guru3d

 

thanks for the welcome!

my card is the BFG 8800 GTS

initially i tested everything with the default settings. same marks aswell...

 

Turn off linkboost and sli memory and test that.

 

done. same results

 

Do you have the bad transistor on your 8800GTS?

 

Try running your ram at 2.2v that might help.

 

bad transistor? what do u mean?

 

it was a resistor not transistor and that only affected the gtx's the gts's didnt have that problem

 

you made me worry there... at least its not a faulty card... any other recommendations? its still not giving me the right framerates

 

Wow, yeah you really do have a problem.

Tried differeny drivers? ( completely uninstall your current ones before trying other ones ).

Let me know how that goes.

 

i tried uninstalling the 97.92 driver and installed the 97,44 one... still same... i noticed that it mostly has bad performace (1-2 FPS) on the red valley test of 3dmark (which is supposed to be a CPU test). Is there any chance that this is cpu related rather than GPU? its it ok to have all voltage settings on auto in the BIOS?

 

CPU = 0-2 FPS normally. That isn't your problem.

 

If you would, post your whole 3d scores. Maybe we can see something from that. Yes, you should be much higher than that to say the least. I do not know much about your MB and bios settings. I would look around some other forums to see if there are some explinations of others bios settings that you could mirror. It almost sounds like something isn't set right somewhere.

 

I cant upload the xls file bcz I havent installed excel yet, I will write the settings down manualy though:

3DMark Score: 6028
SM2.0 Score: 2704
--GT1 - REturn to Proxycon: 22.332 fps
--GT2 - Firefly Forest: 22.741 fps
HDR/SM3.0 Score: 2268
--HDR1 - Canyon Flight: 24.084 fps
--HDR2 - Deep Freeze: 21.281 fps
CPU Score: 2058
--CPU1 - Red Valley 0.657 fps
--CPU2 - Red Valley 1.031 fps

 

hmmmmm, could be your onboard sound mate. i had terrible bother with mine causing the same problems, finally figured out what it was, got a new soundcard and the problem dissappeared.

 

My sugges goes with yermucker. Try unistall audio and graphic drivers and try run Mark without audio drivers. Tell us what happend.
You need install graphic drevers again, but surely you get it you self.

 

Lol that’s the CPU rendering
--CPU1 - Red Valley 0.657 fps
--CPU2 - Red Valley 1.031 fps
Nothing to worry about

 

CPU score is fine, that's not the problem.

Are you sure you have all settings in the nvidia control panel set to default, ie no AA and AF?

Are you sure you have installed your motherboard (chipset) drivers?

 

SM2.0 Score: 2704
HDR/SM3.0 Score: 2268
Those should be higher, i think. Honestly i havet look those GTS tests, but still i think those should be higher.