8800GTX benches and possible driver glitch?

[ZER0P0INT]

I came across a rather frustrating but easily resolved problem after installing my 8800GTX. After I initially installed the 97.02 driver, my performance got cut by more than half approximately. Not sure why it happened, but I reinstalled the drivers and the problem went away. I did some mild overclocking and ran 3DMark05 and 06.

So, the first set of numbers indicates the runs with the bad driver at all stock settings and the second set indicates the mildly oc'd figures and results with the good driver.

Also wanted to get some ideas from you guys/gals on my next set of upgrades. Keep in mind I'm looking for cost effective upgrades/mods seeing as how I'm still recovering from the vid card and PSU purchases. My current plans are to upgrade cooling all around, but not too sure what is best for my setup, I'm just getting into oc'ing so any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
ZER0

Current setup...all on stock cooling atm...
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ @2.55Ghz
Asus A8M2N-LA
eVGA GeForce 8800GTX @652mhz core/953mhz mem
2-Gigs PC4200 DDR2 (Crucial Ram)
Thermaltake Power Express 250 to power the 8800GTX

3DMARK05
Main Test Results - 8800GTX
....................................(1st)...................(2nd)
3DMark Score........(5282 bad driver)......(13452 @652core/953mem)

CPU Score..............(5871 bad driver).....(6962)
Ref Clock (HTT).......................................(211.892mhz)
HT multiplier..........................................(5.0x)
CPU multiplier........................................(12.0x)
CPU core...............................................(2542mhz)
RAM.......................................................(566mhz)

Detailed Test Results

Game Tests.....................(1st)..........(2nd)
Return To Proxycon.......22.8 fps.....45.5 fps
Firefly Forest.................14.6 fps.....36.8 fps
Canyon Flight................28.4 fps.....93.2 fps



CPU Tests.........(1st)........(2nd)
CPU Test 1.......2.7 fps.....3.4 fps
CPU Test 2.......5.7 fps.....6.3 fps


3DMARK06
Main Test Results
..........................(1st).....(2nd)
3DMark Score...(2946)...(8977)

SM 2.0 Score....(1127)...(3958)

SM 3.0 Score....(1104)...(4547)

CPU Score........(1728)...(1908)



Detailed Test Results

Graphics Tests..............(1st)............(2nd)
Return to Proxycon.....9.184 FPS....32.398 FPS
Firefly Forest...............9.602 FPS....33.560 FPS


CPU Tests......................(1st)............(2nd)
CPU1 - Red Valley........0.553 FPS....0.604 FPS
CPU2 - Red Valley........0.863 FPS....0.965 FPS


HDR Tests.........................(1st).............(2nd)
Canyon Flight (SM 3.0)....9.42 FPS.......49.259 FPS
Deep Freeze (SM 3.0)....12.667 FPS....41.679 FPS



PCMARK05 - 4195 (oc'd @ 2.55Ghz)


(Edit).....Figures didn't line up as well as I had hoped.....(Edit)
(Edit).....Fixed formatting to make it easier to read.........(Edit)

 

[Spoudazo]

Get that CPU OCd.

I can hit 8910 with my 7950gx2, you should hit probably 9200+

 

[xenotick]

Could that be my problem? I just put my 8800GTX in and got just over 7,600 3dMarks in 05..

With my X2 3800+ at 2.5GHz I also got 2260 in the CPU test.. With 1.x FPS..

Edit: Just re-installed my drivers and it's still the same.. I had a similiar problem with the X1800XL but everyone told me it was a problem with the card so thus got a new card and now I'm still only getting 7,000 3dmarks in 05 compared to the 6,000 I was getting. This is ridiculous and really starting to p*** me off..

It better not be my damn mobo/CPU..

 

[Joeteck]

How are you overclocking the GPU? I thought Nvidia removed that function?

 

[Spoudazo]

How are you overclocking the GPU? I thought Nvidia removed that function?

Ntune

 

[Dragon Heart]

Ati tool the best ;-)with GTS

3dmark05=19302

3dmark06= 11023

Aquamark 03= 201478

 

[Hipcrostino]

well i think it gose to show that 8800 cards are bottlenecked on AMD systems for most people. There is likally a few that arn't, but for people on single cores like me, there is absolutly no point getting one.

 

[xenotick]

well i think it gose to show that 8800 cards are bottlenecked on AMD systems for most people. There is likally a few that arn't, but for people on single cores like me, there is absolutly no point getting one.

Mine isn't a problem with cpu bottlenecking, rather a problem with the CPU/mobo itself I'm fairly sure - for some reason my CPU scores, etc have always sucked since I bought the PC a year ago - changing from an x1800xl to an 8800gtx hasn't even really changed my score.

In the next few months I'm probably just going to rip out my mobo and cpu from pure frustration and crab a core duo.

 

[wetheperson]

well i think it gose to show that 8800 cards are bottlenecked on AMD systems for most people. There is likally a few that arn't, but for people on single cores like me, there is absolutly no point getting one.

i don't understand why you wouldn't get one. it only seems like they are bottlenecked for benchmarks and not actual gaming.

 

[ZER0P0INT]

Yea so far when gaming in high res there is no CPU bottleneck for me at least, I am looking to overclock my CPU but not to familiar with all the options. Anyone got any solid recommendations for liquid cooling. I'm gonna be getting Danger Den's 8800GTX water block as soon as I can, so, goona need a setup to run it and might as well cover all the other major components while im at it.

Thanks for the help.

P.S. yea I just OC'd with ntune. The functionality is still there. From what I read Nvidia is just preventing the distributors from overclocking for some undisclosed amount of time. Not sure why.