Amazing Hardware, Huge disappointment - Please help

omargalea · 14 Apr 2008 at 15:56

i just bought a new pc with following specs
Motherboard - Asus Striker II Extreme
Graphics - 3 x 9800 GTX 512 MB Ram
Processor - Q6600 2.66Ghz Interl Pentium Overclocked to 2.85
Ram - 4Gb DDR3
OS - Vista home premium 64 Bit
PSU - 1000 watts

Results - after over 28 hours of swearing my head off, the system finally turned on, after finding out that a scew on the motherboard was earthing with the case. I found a reference on a forum after i lost hope.

Anyway after installing everything and than finally updated all drives, I could never get a bigger disappointment when i run - Frontline - Fuel for War, Turning point and even Hour of victory.
The pc just lags and lags and lags, i put everything to a minimum and it still lags, i really had enough.

I spent the last 3 days looking for an anwser and yet after i tried all solutions i am still at the bottom of the pit, I simply cannot play any kind of game. anyone can help PLEASE???

Tefal · 14 Apr 2008 at 15:58

WTF
Graphics - 3 x 9800 GTX 512 MB Ram

Yet you only got 4gb ram?

fail

Sinque · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:02

Remove 2 of the graphics cards and try that.

Nymins · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:02

Sounds like a hardware issue if you can't get the system to turn on properly.

Try with one stick of ram and try each GPU individually.

SkeeterUK · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:03

Vista takes a few reboots till it starts getting faster as it caches stuff you use a lot. Give it a few days and ** system (duno about gaming) should feel snappier.

sniffy · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:03

Sinque said:
Remove 2 of the graphics cards and try that.

Schnippzle · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:06

3 x 9800GTX lol, consumerism for the win! btw, arent these forums sorta here to find out about technology before you buy it?

Tefal · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:06

get 8 gb ram and set pagefile to 16mb then delete it, runs like the wind then

Dano · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:06

Sinque said:
Remove 2 of the graphics cards and try that.

tres · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:11

and make sure your drivers are all installed

AWPC · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:12

omargalea said:
i just bought a new pc with following specs
Motherboard - Asus Striker II Extreme
Graphics - 3 x 9800 GTX 512 MB Ram
Processor - Q6600 2.66Ghz Interl Pentium Overclocked to 2.85
Ram - 4Gb DDR3
OS - Vista home premium 64 Bit
PSU - 1000 watts

Results - after over 28 hours of swearing my head off, the system finally turned on, after finding out that a scew on the motherboard was earthing with the case. I found a reference on a forum after i lost hope.

Anyway after installing everything and than finally updated all drives, I could never get a bigger disappointment when i run - Frontline - Fuel for War, Turning point and even Hour of victory.
The pc just lags and lags and lags, i put everything to a minimum and it still lags, i really had enough.

I spent the last 3 days looking for an anwser and yet after i tried all solutions i am still at the bottom of the pit, I simply cannot play any kind of game. anyone can help PLEASE???

What monitor you using? Reason I ask is that 3 x 9800GTX are only really going to come into play with 1920x1200 or higher and then you will need a much better CPU than an Q6600 to avoid bottlenecks. Also the motherboard is overkill you could have saved a lot of money by getting a cheaper one and 1 x 9800GX2 which would probably still give you smooth gameplay.

Blackhawk47 · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:17

id update the bios (dont think that has been mentioned) .... and check compatability. have you tried with just one gpu in ?

again 3x those gpus would only help if you were running like a 4 24 inch monitors or something stupid like a 30inch dell .

uv · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:18

a 2.85Ghz overclock seems rather lowly for a newb overclocker, nevermind someone with tri-sli!

Which graphics drivers are you using?

omargalea · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:27

i am usuing a hyundai 24" monitor, yeah i did think i did an overkill
well as for vista i did not see anywhere that vista can now work with more than 4gb ram, latest nvidia drivers are 7.15.11.7474.

Hmm bios i have a go at that but i am not confident on really touching that as of yet

SkeeterUK · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:29

Vista was made for going over 4gb, tho for 64bit versions only i think.

sniffy · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:30

I would definitely stay away from flashing the BIOS until you've tried the basics.

Mint_Sauce · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:35

Make sure your motherboard drivers are installed and like others have said, try only one graphics card to begin with.

Tefal · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:36

omargalea said:
i am usuing a hyundai 24" monitor, yeah i did think i did an overkill
well as for vista i did not see anywhere that vista can now work with more than 4gb ram, latest nvidia drivers are 7.15.11.7474.

Hmm bios i have a go at that but i am not confident on really touching that as of yet

64 bit is made for 4gb + the home premium + ones are over 16gb

Blackhawk47 · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:55

hmmm i dont know exactly but have you enabled sli in the drivers.

and power wise ... what psu do you have ?

easiest way to check is download GPUZ, run it and tell us

SkeeterUK · 14 Apr 2008 at 16:57

Oh and update direct x cos when vista came out it had a botched together half dx9 and half dx10 (as dx10 isnt fully developed yet) so download directx and install it to have the latest files.