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- Apr 16, 2005
I've just bought a new XFX geforce 6600gt with 128mb gddr3, and I've noticed that it doesnt seem to be running as well as other people have reported on the net. It scored 1138 in 3dmark03 and I couldnt even be bothered to let 3dmark05 finish because it was getting 3 fps max.
oddly though, it seems fairly good when playing games, on half life 2 I can have all settings on max and 2xAA 4xAF on 1024-768 without much slowdown in busy areas. I do not think it is my hardware that is slowing it down either (athlon xp 3000+, 1gb ddr 333, 550w switching psu) because a radeon 9800pro 128mb I tested for a friend very recently ran very fast and got over 5000 on 3dmark03.
I've tried lots of drivers including omega and nvidia-beta drivers but none of them seem to improve performance. another interesting thing is that the temp guage reads 234C no matter what driver I use. Has anyone else had problems like these? could someone please shed some light on this mystery? thanks in advance.
oddly though, it seems fairly good when playing games, on half life 2 I can have all settings on max and 2xAA 4xAF on 1024-768 without much slowdown in busy areas. I do not think it is my hardware that is slowing it down either (athlon xp 3000+, 1gb ddr 333, 550w switching psu) because a radeon 9800pro 128mb I tested for a friend very recently ran very fast and got over 5000 on 3dmark03.
I've tried lots of drivers including omega and nvidia-beta drivers but none of them seem to improve performance. another interesting thing is that the temp guage reads 234C no matter what driver I use. Has anyone else had problems like these? could someone please shed some light on this mystery? thanks in advance.