8800GT OC Bottleneck?!?

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MrHood22

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I just bought that 8800GT OC from bestbuy for $250.

I put it in my machine after taking out my 8600GT OC. I don't notice any difference.

8800GT OC: 128 FPS on steam stress test, 17,300 on Aquamark

8600GT OC: 148 FPS on steam stress test, 18,100 on Aquamark


I have the 169.02 drivers aswell. Any ideas?
 
Yeah, I think your Athlon 64 is bottlenecking it bit time. You could try the .09 beta drivers. Also, what resolution were you benching both of those cards at?
 
Even so he should still have higher scores with the 8800GT. Besides your CPU something else is happening there.
 
My CPU is pretty fast though.

2.7ghz dual core is a semi-good cpu speed.

I don't know if it would cause a bottleneck but i'm just saying it's not smart to produce a card that basically outruns a large majority of it's consumers products IF infact my CPU is bottlenecking.
 
How about a benchmark of something that actually matters?

You're comparing one obscenely high FPS number to another obscenely high FPS number.

Compare actual in-game performance.
 
Well I use those 2 benchmarks because i've tried them on a x850xt, 7600GT KO, 8600GT OC, and now this 8800GT OC so it's easy for me to judge how they match up to each other.

I did just do a test a few minutes ago for COD4.

I have it at 1280 x 1024, x4 AA, and everything else is on/maxed out. I get 80fps roughly with that while on the same map with the same settings but NO AA and on my 8600GT I got 70 FPS.

On crysis(Low and Medium) I get about 30FPS while chilling and 20 fps while fighting. On high I get about 20fps while chilling and 15 FPs while fighting.

I remember on my 8600GT OC I got around 30FPS so do you think my 8800GT is being held back?

Also in rivatuner it says it goes from about 44-55c with the fan on full.
 
Did you do a full cleaning of old drivers using drivercleaner?
If not that highly suggested.
I had to reinstall after biosflash of my 8800GT.
Same bios just added some vcore love.

You should get better numbers I guess.
 
The problem might be in this line
"I put it in my machine after taking out my 8600GT OC. I don't notice any difference."

As Flopper said, did you uninstall and reinstall the drivers?
Driver cleaner is a good way to make sure theres no leftovers to spoil the fun.
 
MrHood22 said:
My CPU is pretty fast though.

2.7ghz dual core is a semi-good cpu speed.

I don't know if it would cause a bottleneck but i'm just saying it's not smart to produce a card that basically outruns a large majority of it's consumers products IF infact my CPU is bottlenecking.
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2.7GHz x2 is fine, I dont think its a major contributor to this problem.
 
I didn't uninstall the drivers. I had to reinstall them though.

I put in my 8800 and i booted it up and it was "laggy" like it is when it has no drivers so I went to BFG and I downloaded them and restarted.

How do I get drivercleaner? I checked download.com and I googled it but you have to pay for it.
 
Alright I found the free version. I selected Nvidia and I did it and it said complete. Is that all or must I reinstall them?

Edit: I did DC for Nvidia then directly after that I started the steam stress test and got the same results. Was I suppose to restart? reinstall?

Update: I ran that DC, restarted, installed drivers, and restarted again and got 145 FPS instead of 130. It's still not up to where my 8600GT was though. Any ideas why?
 
you should have uninstalled drivers, ran driver cleaner in safe mode, rebooted, reinstalled drivers;)
 
I basically did that but I didn't go into safe mode. Should I try the whole deal in safemode?
 
Yes, it has to be done in safe mode.

There is a readme with driver cleaner that tells you exactly how to use it step by step.
 
After running it in safemode I noticed as I was installing that it told there was already this one nvidia file in the folder I wanted to install in and I said it should just overwrite it.

Shouldn't that file have been deleted?
 
it's just deleting the drivers, not the install file which is put on the c: drive, which it was probably overwriting
 
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