I have been blaming my 8800GTS for ten days now for being pants, kept crashing in games, rarely could I get 3dMark to run the tests fully and no way could I get it to run through 10 minutes of demo vids in 3dMark 06.
eVGA wanted me to RMA the card for them to have a look, and I thought I had tried everything, so I went back to the drawing board and set about putting everything back to default setting in the bios (not that I had oc'd anyhting anyway).
When I assembled this system and its identical twin, I upped the 1.8 stock voltage of the DS4 to 2.1v as allegedly that was what the GEIL PC6400 I had needed to run. I also set the timings to 4-4-4-12 as recommended, instead of the 5-5-5-18 that the Auto settings gave me.
So today I reset these back to 1.8v and 5-5-5-18....and kerchow. It appears that everything is sorted!! No more random crashing, especially in games, can go for stupid detail on all of them without problems.
Now here is the killer....I assumed that I would take a hit in the perfromance stakes going to the new settings, but to my surprise, my 3d Mark 06 only dropped by 60 points, and mb/s bandwidth for memory read/write/copy and latency measured in Everest and Sandra are up! It's even improved the results of the CPU tests!
Is there any rhyme or reason to this?
eVGA wanted me to RMA the card for them to have a look, and I thought I had tried everything, so I went back to the drawing board and set about putting everything back to default setting in the bios (not that I had oc'd anyhting anyway).
When I assembled this system and its identical twin, I upped the 1.8 stock voltage of the DS4 to 2.1v as allegedly that was what the GEIL PC6400 I had needed to run. I also set the timings to 4-4-4-12 as recommended, instead of the 5-5-5-18 that the Auto settings gave me.
So today I reset these back to 1.8v and 5-5-5-18....and kerchow. It appears that everything is sorted!! No more random crashing, especially in games, can go for stupid detail on all of them without problems.
Now here is the killer....I assumed that I would take a hit in the perfromance stakes going to the new settings, but to my surprise, my 3d Mark 06 only dropped by 60 points, and mb/s bandwidth for memory read/write/copy and latency measured in Everest and Sandra are up! It's even improved the results of the CPU tests!
Is there any rhyme or reason to this?