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I Can't Believe My GeForce 8800 GTX Can't Handle This...

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Hi,

I'm in need of a little advice and I'm hoping someone here can point me in the right direction.

We have a high-spec PC at work (Dell XPS 720 H2C) which has two GeForce 8800 GTX cards. Two 30" monitors and two 17" monitors are connected to this machine.

However, despite the high specs I'm finding that when I run my market trading software (MarketMaker by CMC Markets) the computer slows to a halt and it's too sluggish to run. If I have one monitor connected performance is just fine. In fact, I can run the software fine on my Dell Inspiron 9400 laptop.

I'm guessing for some reason the graphics card can't take the demands of using this software across four monitors but if that's the case there must be something I can do! But I've got a quad-core processor, 4GB of RAM, one of the best graphics cards money can buy... what else do I need?

Can anyone suggest why this may be? Is there a better graphics card on the market that can handle this perhaps?
 
It may not be the graphics cards. Try running Rivatuner or something in the background with the monitoring graphs and see if the load on Graphics is heavy. Run Task Manager or something similar and see if the CPU cores hit 100% or there's lots of disk thrashing.
 
Sounds like it maybe running out of system memory...

Have you checked the system memory usage ??

Plus: have you checked for any spyware or virus on the system ???
 
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it doesn't sound like a graphics problem at all

check the loads on your memory and cpu when running the programme.

as well as checking task manager to see if any other processes are using up system rescources when you don't need them
 
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