Poor performance with HD4870X2

My PowerColor 4870 X2 running fine with catalyst 9.7 and Windows 7 7100 64-Bit, Take a look here:

 

I have a 3870 powercolor and I get 25FPS Crysis Maxed out with 2x AA at 1440 by 900 lol.

 

drivers. always update ALL your drivers.. i hate when noobs complain about "its not working" or you ****ed it up when u plugged it in... simple.. *sigh* and 850watts doesnt mean ****. if you dont have enough amps.. its not gonna pump out the power needed for the card to work.

 

WOW! your GPU is running terribly.

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=1266689

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=974047

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=783492

those should give you an idea of how poorly your 4870X2 is performing. you need RMA bro your only running one GPU!

 

Indeed...I wonder if his CatalsyAI is applying correctly?

 

I installed Windows 7, and all the drivers, and now i'm getting even lower frame rates. I think I'll send the videocard back for a new one.

 

catalyst AI is a good idea but its on standard by default .. OP has formatted and installed so many times its gotta be the card... i have seen one do this before .. but it was a 3870X2 from e-bay so i assumed it was damaged in S&H .. maybe there just are bad printouts or sumthing.

GL sinbadtheporter! post back when you get a replacement with sum 16K+ scores please!!

 

Just because the OP is getting low FPS doesn't mean that the video card is the culprit. Anything that the video card comes in direct physical contact with may be the cause for low or lossy performance as well. Computers are never as black and white as your above statement is, no matter how much we wish them to be.

 

ok run 3dmark. note score.

take out one of your video cards and re-run 3dmark. note score.

reinstall so you have pair again, then dissable catalyst AI and re-run 3dmark. note score.

you will see that with both video cards you will get around oh i'll take a wild guess at 14,000

with one you will get around 9000 and with both cards catalyst AI dissabled you will aslo get around 9000 ....

so my good sir the deduction is either catalyst AI is dissabled OR the video card is bad .. in the OP's case he does not have the luxury of "popping out" one of his GPU's he has an "X2" model. so after him reinstalling 2 different OS's both of which work fine with CCC ver 9.6 and 9.7 i came to the conclution that his video card is short one core. now if i were there or if him/her were here i would toss in one of my 4870's 4890's or 4850's to really get a good idea of weather or not it was actually the video card or software or other. heck i might even get another 4870X2 just to be 100% sure.

BUT i am here and they are there and thats the best advice i can give without physically having the computer here.

AND why spend hours of time or worse pay someone for hours of time when you can send out the video card for RMA while its still under warranty?

as for anyhting the card comes physically in contact with. it has already been brought up to check the PSU for suffecient AMPs on the 12V rail(s). one can only assume that the OP actually looked. and mobo? seriously? its an i7 CPU with an x58 chipset... rtfm and put it the proper slot easy peasy lemon squeezy.

 

You're ruling out the fact that his PSU and/or Mobo may be faulty as well, which is what I was trying to get across with my earlier post. I'm not saying that he shouldn't try RMAing the card. What I'm saying is that while RMAing the card a good start, it might not be the solution to the issue.

 

they might be. but his cpu score is roughly where it should be .. you want to make more sure here.

http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=103 run this for a few hours. if at factory settings you get a roboot or a BSOD or anything then you have somthing else wrong with your computer.

also heres a simple "memtest" works tho. http://www.memtest.org/ . download the .iso and run your favorite cd burning software, open the .iso burn it. boot the the cd let it run (its endless loop so you kinda have to watch it go to 100%)

there if you pass both those then you will know that it is not the CPU, north bridge, memory controller, or memory. which leaves .... PSU (check amps and make sure nothing smells like burning) or GPU (RMA that bitch already lol)

lavans your turn im going to bed.

 

*Cough* I never said anything about RAM or CPU. Please stop bringing unnecessary information to the table since all that's going to do is confuse people. When I say that his motherboard may be faulty, I'm directly implying that his PCI-E lane or controller may be wonked.

The first step, and probably easiest step, would be replacing the video card. If that doesn't work, then he could very well go to a retail outlet and buy a motherboard/PSU, test it, then return the parts he just bought when he reaches a conclusion.

 

I still haven't send the card back. I'm just about to pop a HD3870 in to run some benchmarks and to compare, That would probably rule out the faulty mobo if everything runs fine..

 

This is the score I get with my HD3870

3DMARK SCORE:
P5090

GPU SCORE
4120

CPU SCORE
17338




3DMARK SCORE:
H2751

GPU SCORE:
2395

CPU SCORE
17209

 

lol .

i guess u r so smrt u will solve all the worlds problems. have fun.

 

this is from page 1, if u missed it

i can try to write it in easy english too, if u didnt understand but, if u want help id suggest u do this and post result

 

They are both working almost equally, the GPU Load is roughly the same, but the temperature is somewhat lower on the other but other then that they are both the same.

I also re-ran 3DMARK Vantage and this time I got a 14606 GPU Score.

 

That sounds much more like it, you tryed any games yet?

 

Awesome, seems the card is finally hitting numbers within the ballpark. It seems the card may have not been seated right. If you could download a few free programs for benchmarking purposes, I wouldn't mind cross referencing my scores with yours.

I would recommend these
http://www.ausgamers.com/files/details/html/40499 - Far Cry 2 benchmark
http://fileshack.com/file.x/12049/TrackMania+Nations+Forever+-+Free+Game - TrackMania Nations Forever
http://fileshack.com/file.x/14772/Resident+Evil+5+Benchmark+Version - Resident Evil 5 Benchmark
They're all free, so benchmark to your heart's content =)

 

I'll install some games right away, But the low score on Resident Evil 5 Benchmark is still bugging me, could it be the ram causing the low frame rates in certain games ?

I'll post the FarCry2 Benchmark results when it's done downloading