Please help

[bcm406]

I am running an asus p5nd2-sli mobo with 2 6600gt's in sli, 1 gig of kingston valueram, and a Pentium 4 530 3.0 ghz. The ram is ddr2 @ 533 mhz, I am getting very poor performance out of this machine. Right now I am running the memory in dual channel @ 4-3-3-10, according to cpu-z the freq on the memory is 133.3 and the fsb:dram is 3:2. I feel that this machine should run alot better than it does, I am only getting about 20fps in Far Cry @ 800x600 with medium detail settings. Suggestions please.

[liftedcj7on44s]

my best bet would be that the 1gig of ram is whats killing you. i love my logitech g15 keyboard cuz while i am playing a game the lcd tells me how much ram i am using. playing bf2 with a 7800gt and 1gb of ram i was using 99% of 1 gig and the game was almost unplayable. and you have 2 6600's with only 1gig. id say you need more ram.

[kraftmayo]

I am running an asus p5nd2-sli mobo with 2 6600gt's in sli, 1 gig of kingston valueram, and a Pentium 4 530 3.0 ghz. The ram is ddr2 @ 533 mhz, I am getting very poor performance out of this machine. Right now I am running the memory in dual channel @ 4-3-3-10, according to cpu-z the freq on the memory is 133.3 and the fsb:dram is 3:2. I feel that this machine should run alot better than it does, I am only getting about 20fps in Far Cry @ 800x600 with medium detail settings. Suggestions please.



I would also speculate that it's the RAM that's killing you, not the size, but the timings and how they're configured. I play FarCry with a 68GT and 1gb RAM, and I get great framerates at maxed out settings.

If I were you, I'd try to borrow some better RAM.

What's the clock on the FSB for your processor? Sorry, I'm an AMD guy.

[bcm406]

800 mhz fsb and 3.0 ghz on the cpu. I will look into getting more memory does it need to be Kingston valueram, to match with the other 2 dimms? Can you point me in the right direction for adjusting my timings? I know how to adjust them but I don't know what values to start with.

[Damenshon]

how about drivers? how does it play with only 1 card? heat? do other games play that slow?

it could be ram but unless theyre defective i dont think it should bring it down that much.