8800GT Stock?

Camalot · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:20

RavenXXX2 said:
Looks like they are holding the shader clocks back on some of the preclocked cards, i get 1652 shader at 661 gpu.

Yes looks like it, i bought it for 161 but it was advertised at 600mhz, i didnt know it was 660 untill it arrived.

Anyway, for some reason i can't break 7-8k in 3dmark 06 :mad:

Countcussy · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:20

Camalot said:
Damn, 8k in 06

I would have expected a lttle more. Check my sig below.

I am running Xp though.

LoadsaMoney · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:21

Thedog45 said:
Hi all , new to the forums just a quick question i got a new bfg oc 8800gt on the way but i wanted to know if my psu (hyper type r 580w) will run 2 of these babys or is an upgrade needed? thx

Welcome to the forums.

It will power 2x fine as those PSU's are Crossfire/SLi certified, but id be inclined to get a new one as they have a very bad reputation on here, been going pop all over the shop those PSU's.

The Darkness · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:28

Stuck my MSI one in last night. The rest of my system is old (X2 4200, 2Gb PC3200 ram) - scored just over 8k in mark06. You guys think thats in the right ballpark for such an ageing system?

cheers

Camalot · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:30

Countcussy said:
I would have expected a lttle more. Check my sig below.

I am running Xp though.

Do you recon this is anything to do with the PSU issues other people are having?

Thedog45 · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:31

Thanks, i had been hearing that about those psu. So i might juz go and do some more spending and treat myself as the missus is away abroad xmas shopping spending god knows how much!!

plasticmekon · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:36

I don't want to curse myself, but my Hiper Type-R 580 has been going strong for 2 different builds for about 18 months.

*knocks on a lot of wood*

Big.Wayne · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:38

Camalot said:
for some reason i can't break 7-8k in 3dmark 06

Hmm that seems a little low? have you played about with driver settings at all? You should be hitting around 11K with your spec?

I had a problem when I first installed the 8800GT due to some hardware bug with the Antec Quattro, that hit performance big time!

nVidia 8800GT 512MB

plasticmekon · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:45

I bet you were really pleased with it!

*cough*

!

Countcussy · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:45

Camalot said:
Do you recon this is anything to do with the PSU issues other people are having?

Could be any number of things. Could be power, could be drivers, could be BIOS settings.

To give you a benchmark figure, my E2180 and 8800gt both at stock scored over 9k in 3D06.

mancubas · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:49

Camalot said:
Yes looks like it, i bought it for 161 but it was advertised at 600mhz, i didnt know it was 660 untill it arrived.

Anyway, for some reason i can't break 7-8k in 3dmark 06

Thats actually looks about right, here's mine: -

Galea · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:53

Royal Mail Problem?

Hmmm, I got an email from OcUK "Your order has been shipped" yesterday at 4pm.

Today (It's 2pm here gmt+1) I checked Royal Mail's site, and when I inputted the 13 digit number I got this message: "Information on your item is not yet available. If the International Signed For® item was posted today please note that the majority of items are tracked during the night. Please try again tomorrow."

The problem is that my item was not posted today but yesterday, hence it should've been tracked during last night... :confused:

I hope everything'll turn out OK. This hadn't happened when I bought my x-fi from OcUK - the following day Royal Mail had information on my item!

Tooks · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:55

Camalot said:
Do you recon this is anything to do with the PSU issues other people are having?

I don't think so, I'm using a Seasonic S12 430w too, and with an E2140@3Ghz/2gb DDR2, and I get nearly 11k in 3dm06 with the 8800GT at stock.

Your board is different, but by all accounts that's better than mine, so shouldn't be a problem.

I'd suspect drivers to be honest.

Big.Wayne · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:56

mancubas said:
here's mine

Hmmm I could be wrong but that seems a bit low also? I tested the 8800Gt (quicky) with an mono-core Opteron 939 system, can't compare the results directly to yours because I had to run the test at 1024x768. . .

CPU @ 2000MHz (stock) and the overclocked to 2600MHz.

plasticmekon · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:58

lol...

Mono-core.. just sounds quaint these days!

(he says typing the message on a Pentium M laptop..

)

mancubas · 27 Nov 2007 at 12:59

Big.Wayne said:
Hmmm I could be wrong but that seems a bit low also? I tested the 8800Gt (quicky) with an mono-core Opteron 939 system, can't compare the results directly to yours because I had to run the test at 1024x768. . .

CPU @ 2000MHz (stock) and the overclocked to 2600MHz.

That test was with a 8600GT, I gather yours was the 8800GT?

ManC

Ghuraba · 27 Nov 2007 at 13:06

Galea said:
Hmmm, I got an email from OcUK "Your order has been shipped" yesterday at 4pm.

Today (It's 2pm here gmt+1) I checked Royal Mail's site, and when I inputted the 13 digit number I got this message: "Information on your item is not yet available. If the International Signed For® item was posted today please note that the majority of items are tracked during the night. Please try again tomorrow."

The problem is that my item was not posted today but yesterday, hence it should've been tracked during last night...

I hope everything'll turn out OK. This hadn't happened when I bought my x-fi from OcUK - the following day Royal Mail had information on my item!

It does say '...the majority of items are tracked during the night...' so maybe your order is one of the exceptions that was not tracked that night.

Michael

willhub · 27 Nov 2007 at 13:06

Seems abit low CPU score that.

My Athlon 3700+ @ 2.8Ghz scored around 1030.

Galea · 27 Nov 2007 at 13:11

Ghuraba said:
so maybe your order is one of the exceptions that was not tracked that night.

lol must be my luck! This GT is determined to take its time...

Camalot · 27 Nov 2007 at 13:14

Tooks said:
I don't think so, I'm using a Seasonic S12 430w too, and with an E2140@3Ghz/2gb DDR2, and I get nearly 11k in 3dm06 with the 8800GT at stock.

Your board is different, but by all accounts that's better than mine, so shouldn't be a problem.

I'd suspect drivers to be honest.

Well it could be, i still had ati tools installed, and didnt do a drivercleaner in safe mode (not sure ho to get into safe mode!) Ill try the beta drivers.

Not really sure how i do a 06 run properly tbh, do i have to set my main res to 1280x720? Or leave it as it is. Ive changed the sliders to performace and set the other sliders to best performance to. First time ive used this nvidia CP!

Had a go on crysis demo and set everything to HIGH, before i was getting 7fps, now it was happily running at 25-35fps feeling very smooth!