8800GTX Not Impressed With My New Card

[Rroff]

I can give you more...but the results are quite the same

When I built my gaming rig I tried my E6600 at stock (2.4gig), 3gig and 3.6gig with my 7950GX2 in all the games I regularly play, at resolutions upto 1920x and over half the games saw a performance benefit of atleast 10% often a lot more with the CPU at 3gig over 2.4gig, but very few saw any benefit at 3.6gig over 3gig.

 

[BenchZowner]

When I built my gaming rig I tried my E6600 at stock (2.4gig), 3gig and 3.6gig with my 7950GX2 in all the games I regularly play, at resolutions upto 1920x and over half the games saw a performance benefit of atleast 10% often a lot more with the CPU at 3gig over 2.4gig, but very few saw any benefit at 3.6gig over 3gig.

10% with a single GX2 could appear only in AA/AF-free situations ( like 1024x768 NoAA/NoAF , 1280x1024 NoAA/NoAF, 1600x1200 NoAA/NoAF , etc ).
There's no way to score a average 10% rise at these resolutions with AA/AF enabled. Not even in the most CPU bound RTS games.

Apart from that, you were also overclocking you FSB, and your RAM frequencies, while I kept everything at the same frequency except the CPU's frequency

 

[Boogle]

I've found that while the average fps doesn't change much with CPU increases, the playability definitely increases. You don't get the odd jerks or pauses anymore, the minimum framerate is higher, and so on. A nice well-rounded system is significantly more enjoyable to actually play on, than a system that is out of balance.

 

[Rroff]

10% with a single GX2 could appear only in AA/AF-free situations ( like 1024x768 NoAA/NoAF , 1280x1024 NoAA/NoAF, 1600x1200 NoAA/NoAF , etc ).
There's no way to score a average 10% rise at these resolutions with AA/AF enabled. Not even in the most CPU bound RTS games.

Depends hugely on the game... I just tried it with GTA SA and the fps was the same at 640x480 through to 1920x1200 with 4x AA and 16x AF regardless of the CPU speed 1.86, 2.4, 3.0, 3.6... and there wasn't a huge delta with AF and AA disabled.

Apart from that, you were also overclocking you FSB, and your RAM frequencies, while I kept everything at the same frequency except the CPU's frequency

Thats an arrogant assumption to make... my motherboard supports running the RAM unlinked and for all you know my CPU could have been an ES with upwards unlocking.

It is interesting tho - testing it out now - with an 8800GTS even an E6300 is enough to power it in most games... the only places where the extra CPU horse power really shows is in stress tests/benchmarks like in source games, etc.

 

[BenchZowner]

Thats an arrogant assumption to make... my motherboard supports running the RAM unlinked and for all you know my CPU could have been an ES with upwards unlocking.

Sorry, I didn't paid attention to your system specs.
Although even with unlinked FSB/DRAM there's still another factor ( well not that much, but still affects the performance a bit )...the internal MCH latencies

 

[Rroff]

Thinking back I never bothered with AA and AF with my old PC so when I tested my new setup I almost deffinatly had them off - I only really started using them later when I saw how powerful this system was in comparison to my old P4 + 6800.

Playing about a bit more I'm not seeing any real difference with AA and AF on tho there is some with it off.

 

[BenchZowner]

Playing about a bit more I'm not seeing any real difference with AA and AF on tho there is some with it off.

See ? I told ya

 

[SixDemons]

cpu

I Think is the CPU, a friend have GTX OC2 and his benchies are 7745 3dmark 06,.. and he have and extreme edition Pentium D 955 (3.4ghz). so.. its a fact that GTX run well only on Core 2 duo. becase the Top pentium D like my friend is bottlenecking the card.. and he have 2gb crucial tracer 1066mhz, so its defenitly the cpu..

 

[Ross1234]

If you really dont like it you could always give it to me, I can offer manlove in return
EDIT: but not in a gay way

 

[BenchZowner]

I Think is the CPU, a friend have GTX OC2 and his benchies are 7745 3dmark 06,.. and he have and extreme edition Pentium D 955 (3.4ghz). so.. its a fact that GTX run well only on Core 2 duo. becase the Top pentium D like my friend is bottlenecking the card.. and he have 2gb crucial tracer 1066mhz, so its defenitly the cpu..

Re-read the whole topic, carefully.

 

[lay-z-boy]

Intel 670J?

There's your queen bee, get any core2duo and pair it up with a good quality mobo and you will see a massive hike in performance.

Going from an athlon X2 @ 2.75ghz to a x3210 was a blessing in games even at stock!

 

[chaparral]

With my CPU you mean as the 8800GTX is struggling in places with Tomb Raider Anniversry on full AA + AF it stutters on the first Peru level in game cinematic!

My Tomb raider Anniversry stutters on the first cinematic as well and this is at 60fps with no drops at all..(Using fraps)

But ingame is perfectly smooth so far..(I only on level 3)

I don't think this is your CPU causing this....(

 

[helmutcheese]

TO "OP", Have you fixed you image quality on your TV out ?

 

[pegasus1]

Intel 670J?

There's your queen bee, get any core2duo and pair it up with a good quality mobo and you will see a massive hike in performance.

Going from an athlon X2 @ 2.75ghz to a x3210 was a blessing in games even at stock!

Same for me matey, A64 [email protected] to [email protected]. used a 7800gtx on both system and there was a noticable difference in Q4,FEAR,COD2 etc and a huge difference in flight sims,RTW,COH.

 

[AWPC]

TO "OP", Have you fixed you image quality on your TV out ?

No gave up and went back to the VGA instead as it seems to be broken on DVI-HDMI as the picture looks unatural, cloudy. murky,blurry & unwatchable yet a £140 X1950Pro is perfect on the same HDTV + DVI-HDMI cable cannot be drivers as this happens before the PC even boots. Any suggestions??

 

[AWPC]

My Tomb raider Anniversry stutters on the first cinematic as well and this is at 60fps with no drops at all..(Using fraps)

But ingame is perfectly smooth so far..(I only on level 3)

I don't think this is your CPU causing this....(

If I disable AA it is smooth. Ingame anywhere it is very smooth anyway even with full AA just that cinematic.

Even Tomb Raider Legend is very smooth with next gen + AA so maybe it is just an AA issue with complex polygon scenes where there are a lot of edges to AA with supersampling.

 

[Black Dragon]

Nvidia Control Panel > Display > Adjust desktop colour settings

Add a bit of Digital Vibrance (I find 25% is good).

Not meaning to hijack the thread but that just reminded me... Digital vibrance is greyed out for me even with different drivers, it was the same with my GTS. Something i'm missing?

 

[gurusan]

1150 cpu score...wow

i get 2800 on my e6300 @ only 2.8ghz