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7600GT Bottleknecking with my P4?

if you think the card is not being stressed enough, the force 8xS AA in the nvidia control panel. will soon be wanting a more powerful card then. :D
 
Cyber-Mav said:
if you think the card is not being stressed enough, the force 8xS AA in the nvidia control panel. will soon be wanting a more powerful card then. :D
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He has trouble getting the expected performance from the card and suspects the PSU, what do you think could be the problem here.
 
500w psu is plenty for this card and his setup even if it is a cheapo qtec psu.
i got the 7600gs running on a [email protected] 1.5gb ram and using a hiper type r (non modular) 480w psu. and im sure the system will run with far less power, 350w easily.
its got to be driver install or something else your overlooking
 
Hello guys.

Fitted my PSU... One problem with the PSU... If I want a direct connection to my graphics card I need to lose one of my CD drives...

At the moment my graphics line goes from my hard drive into the graphics card... Is this really stopping too much power to the graphics card?

Just done CSS source again on all high 2X AA but it's still dropping in the 20FPS... :confused:

I really don't know what to do next... I can't think of what drivers I haven't put in... I didn't know where to get chipset so I never put them in.

I'm going to do a 3DMARK03 test now.
 
jaykay said:
what card do you have i thought 7600gt didnt need a connector
any how what drivers do you have
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7600GT Does need a connector mate.

I usually use drivers off the Nvidia site but I remember some one saying to use the ones on the disk.

I just ran 3dmark03 and I got 11688 3Dmarks.... Does this sound about right?

Cheers.
 
Use the card drivers from the supplied CD and use the sis chipset driver updates, also on the CD. This is the most important thing to do.

Before you install new drivers try a driver cleaner program, and use add/remove programs to uninstall current driver.

I have had trouble with elements of a previous drive install remaining behind and corupting a new driver.

JayKay, The 7600GT AGP needs a power cable connected, just like the 6600GT. I don't think a CD drive will be a problem, they don't fire up much in games and standing current will be fairly low. (it's the motors that need the power).

How hot is the 7600GT Chip Temp?

also I guess your running XP fully patched and service packed?
 
cmscam said:
7600GT Does need a connector mate.

I usually use drivers off the Nvidia site but I remember some one saying to use the ones on the disk.

I just ran 3dmark03 and I got 11688 3Dmarks.... Does this sound about right?

Cheers.
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Yup that looks about right to me... so the card is basically performing a bench ok, but how this translates to correct FPS in CS cource may be tough to interpret. As to where you go from here leaves me a little stumped..

Maybe remove and re-install drivers, tedious I know. And yes use them supplied on the disk.
 
Mitch007 said:
Use the card drivers from the supplied CD and use the sis chipset driver updates, also on the CD. This is the most important thing to do.

Before you install new drivers try a driver cleaner program, and use add/remove programs to uninstall current driver.

I have had trouble with elements of a previous drive install remaining behind and corupting a new driver.

JayKay, The 7600GT AGP needs a power cable connected, just like the 6600GT. I don't think a CD drive will be a problem, they don't fire up much in games and standing current will be fairly low. (it's the motors that need the power).

How hot is the 7600GT Chip Temp?

also I guess your running XP fully patched and service packed?
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BTW Just to let you know, I'm running the power cable from the HDD.

The temp as it stands right now is around 47 degrees.

Yep I am using windows xp pro fully service packed and patched.

Don't you think the scores I posted above sound about right?
 
No offence, but SiS chipsets are usually ****. By the way, make sure you installed drivers in the right order: DirectX 9 -> AGP -> Graphics (dont bother installing anything from SiS other than the AGP driver, the system will probably crash).

One more thing, a 3ghz P4 *will* be a bottleneck in games like CSS and WoW.
 
I used an SiS chipset motherboard because it was dirt cheap, used, for a value build and even then it was an Asus one...I always stick to Nvidia or ATI, sometimes VIA (but not their PCI-Express chipsets).
 
Mitch007 said:
for stock clocks on the card and CPU i'd say benchmark is OK, no problem.

Your temp is good at 47C.

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=P5S800-VM

under 'other' there is an SIS AGP driver revision update.

Also under AGP there is updated to the SIS chipset graphics driver.

Couple of additional options.
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Hi there... Downloading that file now.

Just tried TM and Spellforce 2... Getting about an average of 20FPS on TM and about 30 on Spellforce 2...

I really don't know whats wrong... Do you think a format is in order?
 
cmscam said:
Hi there... Downloading that file now.

Just tried TM and Spellforce 2... Getting about an average of 20FPS on TM and about 30 on Spellforce 2...

I really don't know whats wrong... Do you think a format is in order?
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Might help, but your cpu is probably hurting performance as well.
 
cmscam said:
I get told its not my cpu, it is my cpu, its not my cpu, it is my cpu. :o
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First try the fresh install, and see what performance is like then. I still think that CPU is going to hold back the 7600GT in some games.
 
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