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Need Help, GTX460 not sure if i'm happy

Marine-RX179 said:
Looking good. I think these clock speeds would be enough for you for now. If you do upgrade the CPU in the future, then may be you can try for 950MHz core speed.
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Yeah i'm going no further, i've stopped at 900/1800/2100, it's running fine and with the stability test i've gained an iditional 15 frames which is great money well spent, i'll be buying a 2nd one of these in a few weeks to SLI them.

First comes the CPU Upgrade though :D
 
This just isn't happening, i've got it stabled overclocked, and the fps is still just above playable, no AA on JC2 and i got around 35-45 fps benchmark my system specs are here:

Asus P5Q Deluxe
GTX460 OC'd 900/1800/2100
E5400 OC'd 3.948
4gig Crucial Ballistix ram
OCZ Fatal1ty 750W PSU

I got more frames from the 4870 is the only thing making this very frustrating for me at the moment because i've seen a decrease in performance which makes me ponder if i should have waited for the 4870 to be RMA'd and gone with 2x in CF?

Frames on games shown below:

JC2 benchmark 35-45
All Points Bulletin 28-58 (a lot of suttering)
Global Agenda 22-42 (peaked 60 on my own with no loading)
Prince of Persia TFS 33-44
Blur 45-58

Surely these can't be right?
 
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I don't think you going to match a pair of 4870's with a single GTX460 card TBH.

Also it usually better the let a new card go through a few weeks of thermal cycles, then push the clock speeds.
 
J-I-M said:
This just isn't happening, i've got it stabled overclocked, and the fps is still just above playable, no AA on JC2 and i got around 35-45 fps benchmark my system specs are here:

Asus P5Q Deluxe
GTX460 OC'd 900/1800/2100
E5400 OC'd 3.948
4gig Crucial Ballistix ram
OCZ Fatal1ty 750W PSU

I got more frames from the 4870 is the only thing making this very frustrating for me at the moment because i've seen a decrease in performance which makes me ponder if i should have waited for the 4870 to be RMA'd and gone with 2x in CF?

Frames on games shown below:

JC2 benchmark 35-45
All Points Bulletin 28-58 (a lot of suttering)
Global Agenda 22-42 (peaked 60 on my own with no loading)
Prince of Persia TFS 33-44
Blur 45-58

Surely these can't be right?
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Em...I have to ask...what kind of settings and how much AA are you using for games? Cause those frame rate seem too low for a GTX460...and there's just no way it is performance worse than a 4870 512MB.
 
J-I-M said:
This just isn't happening, i've got it stabled overclocked, and the fps is still just above playable, no AA on JC2 and i got around 35-45 fps benchmark my system specs are here:

Asus P5Q Deluxe
GTX460 OC'd 900/1800/2100
E5400 OC'd 3.948
4gig Crucial Ballistix ram
OCZ Fatal1ty 750W PSU

I got more frames from the 4870 is the only thing making this very frustrating for me at the moment because i've seen a decrease in performance which makes me ponder if i should have waited for the 4870 to be RMA'd and gone with 2x in CF?

Frames on games shown below:

JC2 benchmark 35-45
All Points Bulletin 28-58 (a lot of suttering)
Global Agenda 22-42 (peaked 60 on my own with no loading)
Prince of Persia TFS 33-44
Blur 45-58

Surely these can't be right?
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Pick a benchmark on JC2, let me know what it is and the settings, and I'll run it on my lowly 8800GT so you can compare.
 
Regardless of clock speeds to be honest i thought this card would out-do the 4870 considering that card was released back in 2008, it's mid 2010 so that's a good 2 years since i've upgraded.

I'm just abit baffled as to how this is performing slightly less better than my 4870 could it be lack of power? i'm running a 6pin dual molex end into the comp which runs off my water set-up could there possibly be not enough power getting through? I'm at a loss really, i've tried running bench's the same as my other card (settings-wise) and this one seems to struggle getting above 40 fps on them.:(
 
J-I-M said:
Regardless of clock speeds to be honest i thought this card would out-do the 4870 considering that card was released back in 2008, it's mid 2010 so that's a good 2 years since i've upgraded.

I'm just abit baffled as to how this is performing slightly less better than my 4870 could it be lack of power? i'm running a 6pin dual molex end into the comp which runs off my water set-up could there possibly be not enough power getting through? I'm at a loss really, i've tried running bench's the same as my other card (settings-wise) and this one seems to struggle getting above 40 fps on them.:(
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For one, have you totally got rid of the ATI drivers?

For two, you should use dedicated leads from the PSU into the card. I.E., not a splitter from one lead into two.
 
@Marine I'm not using any AA for these game's i usually keep away unless i know it's not a hugely demanding game, I thought the same aswell hence my confusion which is irritating me to say the very least.

@KelticDaz I'll run a bench with no v-sync all settings on high no AA x16 Anisotropic let me know how you get on fps wise and i'll do the same.
 
Uninstalled them, Driverswept them, analyzed again after restarts nothing found, installed the latest GTX400 series drivers.
 
J-I-M said:
Regardless of clock speeds to be honest i thought this card would out-do the 4870 considering that card was released back in 2008, it's mid 2010 so that's a good 2 years since i've upgraded.
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Speed wise a stock GTX460 768Mb should be around two 4850 in crossfire roughly speaking, so something certain doesn't seem right.
 
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J-I-M said:
@Marine I'm not using any AA for these game's i usually keep away unless i know it's not a hugely demanding game, I thought the same aswell hence my confusion which is irritating me to say the very least.

@KelticDaz I'll run a bench with no v-sync all settings on high no AA x16 Anisotropic let me know how you get on fps wise and i'll do the same.
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There are three different benchmarks, with a plethora of settings. Run one with whatever settings you like (up to 1080P, that's the limit of my monitor). Post a piccie of the result, and I'll do the same.
 
How do I completely ensure that ATI drivers have been un-installed on Windows 7?

Sorry for hi-jack! :( Just want to make sure mine are gone before installing a GTX 460!
 
Having a bloody awkward time getting any image uploading site to upload my screen-shot so i'll post as soon as it loads.
 
Can't upload a screen-shot my internet seems to be completely dead almost, not sure what's going on (typical virgin media services)

Anyway average FPS was 41, max 51 everything on high no AA x16 anisotropic filtering and no v-sync, i'll post a screen-shot asap but for now this is all i have to go on untill i can upload a sodding picture.
 
Just run the add remove function in the control panel, get it to do an express unistall, when it prompts you to unistall the install/unistall manager say yes.

Reboot, if prompted.

After reboot, delete any remaing folders in program files (as thats the 64bit directory in visat 64) then install Nvidia drivers.... should be fine.
 
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