6800 ultra. help

[Crazyglue]

ok just got a new 6800 ultra and a new comp. here are specs

AMD 3400+ "Newcastle socket 754
DFI Lan Party UT 250 gb uultra
6800 ultra (duh!)
450W PSU
and a 5400 RPM HDD (don't ask why, it is from old comp, didn'y have enought for new 1)

ok so when i run 3dmark03, everything runs fine, execpt, that my score isn't even over 9000, this is really wierd, is this my hard drive or is the vidcard defective? please help!

[Kenshiro]

i think its your harddrive. I score around 12000 with my 6800GT.
How much mem do you have???

[Crazyglue]

i have 2 GB (2 stick of 1 gb) of Corsair pc-3200 (ddr400)

i tried over clocking my vid card, max was 456/1.15 but the max stable was 443/1.13, so i'm gonna keep it on the more stable 1

[Joe Don Baker]

I don't think a slower HDD would affect your score that much. You did do a clean install with all this new stuff right? Old video card drivers from other companies can hurt your performance. I had to clean out some old ATI drivers when I switched to Nvidia.

[Crazyglue]

before i installed all the new stuff i formatted my hard drive and wiped it... so it is all clean, btw i am using Omega version 1.6177 drivers i will look for an update ther too...

[Kenshiro]

Did you remember to install your chipset driver too??? I did that one time too.

[Crazyglue]

no did that first thing, as always, so i can get the drivers for everything else online :P