added another 8800gtx, score only went up 2k?

PearlJammzz · Sep 29, 2007

Hey guys, with my Q6600 and single 8800GTX I was anywhere from 10-11k. Now I added another GTX into the mix and am seeing upper 13k. What gives? Is my CPU limiting the advantages of my SLi'd setup?

This is in 3dmark06 BTW

Adragontattoo · Sep 29, 2007

prolly
I dunno for sure but that would make the most sense.

rainless · Sep 29, 2007

PearlJammzz said:
Hey guys, with my Q6600 and single 8800GTX I was anywhere from 10-11k. Now I added another GTX into the mix and am seeing upper 13k. What gives? Is my CPU limiting the advantages of my SLi'd setup?

This is in 3dmark06 BTW

No way to tell without more info.

Make a sig... tell us what's in the rest of your rig. At LEAST tell us what you have the Q6600 clocked at...

toddm27 · Sep 29, 2007

what clocks on the processor?

El<(')>Maxi · Sep 29, 2007

ORB link would help

dylskee · Sep 29, 2007

Also, what clocks are you running the cards at? I hit a little over 14500 with a single card @641/1050 and my quad running @3800, I would think with dual cards and a quad you should be up near the 16000~17000 mark. :shrug:

satandole666 · Sep 29, 2007

For a frame of reference, my E6600 at 3.6ghz + an 8800gts 320 scores the same as your Q6600 + GTX.

Unless you are running at stock settings on the CPU something is amiss.

torin3 · Sep 29, 2007

I would definately say that something is wrong. With a Q6600 at 3.25Ghz and to 8800GTS 640M cards I'm getting 15135 on 3D06. Cards are set to 584/920. Since you are getting an increase, I would say that SLI is working. Have you checked your link speed? Are you 16x & 16x, or 8x & 8x, or slower?

PearlJammzz · Sep 29, 2007

Ok, here are my stats:

2x 1gb ballistix 6400 at 800mhz
Q6600 at 2.4
2x 8800GTX at 621/1000 (stock speeds, from EVGA)
Mobo = EVGA A1 680i

Now I just added 2 more gigs of ram, so I have 4. And windows is only showing 2.3gigs, wtf?! It should show 3.2-3.3 yes? I am running winxp 32bit..

toddm27 · Sep 29, 2007

overclock you chip some and your score will go up dramatically

satandole666 · Sep 29, 2007

PearlJammzz said:
Ok, here are my stats:

2x 1gb ballistix 6400 at 800mhz
Q6600 at 2.4
2x 8800GTX at 621/1000 (stock speeds, from EVGA)
Mobo = EVGA A1 680i

Now I just added 2 more gigs of ram, so I have 4. And windows is only showing 2.3gigs, wtf?! It should show 3.2-3.3 yes? I am running winxp 32bit..

I'd pull the extra 2 gig of ram and overclock the remaining ram along with your CPU.

Your scores will go up dramatically if you can hit 3.4ghz+ with that Q6600. Not to mentioning your actual game play should benefit as well.

PearlJammzz · Sep 29, 2007

So you're saying my Q6600 is the limiting factor? It just has a stock cooler, I'm going water in December-ish so wont OC till then. So w/ a stock q6600 this is a normal score?

The score was run w/ only 2 gigs, I just added the other 2 this afternoon, was hopin someone would be able to tell me while it's not seein 3.2-3.3?

inkfx · Sep 30, 2007

PearlJammzz said:
Now I just added 2 more gigs of ram, so I have 4. And windows is only showing 2.3gigs, wtf?! It should show 3.2-3.3 yes? I am running winxp 32bit..

Are you using CPUz?

El<(')>Maxi · Sep 30, 2007

Are you running High Performance driver settings, like this?

PearlJammzz · Sep 30, 2007

cpu-z shows 4 gigs, windows and everest shows 2.3.

As far as the high performance/quality I am not sure. I don't have a menu like you do, where is this setting in the nvidia control panel?

El<(')>Maxi · Sep 30, 2007

Right mouse click the Nividia tray icon (next to the clock) and you will see it.

PearlJammzz · Sep 30, 2007

Was set to quality..

Any reason why my games (noteably EQ2) run slower now? Really disappointed thus far w/ adding the extra vid card, lol.

El<(')>Maxi · Sep 30, 2007

Not sure, what exactly do you mean by slower? FPS?

For benching most guys (everyone in here

) set the drivers to 'Performance', when gaming you usually turn everything up for better IQ. If you want us to help you figure this out you need to post ORB links and other info, we can help if you want to figure this out. Also SLI does not double performance, if you we're expecting that you should have read a little more before grabbing another card.

PearlJammzz · Oct 1, 2007

I knowi t doesn't double, I wish it did, lol. What I mean is it runs slower w 2 cards, than it does with 1, kind of weird and I am not sure what's up....I switched ram out at the same time too, so it could be that.

I was just expecting ~15k w/ 2 cards, and only goin up 2k had me thinkin a bit...

Hazaro · Oct 7, 2007

El<(')>Maxi said:
Not sure, what exactly do you mean by slower? FPS?

For benching most guys (everyone in here ) set the drivers to 'Performance', when gaming you usually turn everything up for better IQ. If you want us to help you figure this out you need to post ORB links and other info, we can help if you want to figure this out. Also SLI does not double performance, if you we're expecting that you should have read a little more before grabbing another card.

Say WHA!?!?!

So that's the secret to overclocking....

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