8800GT Performance issues?

[MrHood22]

I was playing Command and Conquer 3 at a lan with my friend and we had the EXACT same settings in the game/Nvida control panel and he would get higher FPS, in some cases twice as much.

His setup:
e4500 @ 3.0ghz
9600GT Oced
4 gigs of ram

He would be getting 30 fps (ingame max) while I would be getting 7fps in heavy fight scenes.

Is this a problem? I definently think my 8800GT should have no issues maxing this game out but it seems it can barely maintain 30FPS in CC3.

 

[RedLancerOz]

its because the amd isnt as fast , i have the same issues (vs intel machines) of similar specs

 

[MrHood22]

so a 2.74ghz x2 bottlenecks an 8800GT at 1680 x 1050 resolution?

 

[RedLancerOz]

yup , my fathers machine gets atleast 20--30 fps more than me

hes got a
e6600 @ 3.0
2gb ddr2 800
evga 8800gt

i got
5000+ @ 3.4
3gb ddr2 800
evga 8800gt

both 22" LCD's (1680x1050)

 

[Nenu]

so a 2.74ghz x2 bottlenecks an 8800GT at 1680 x 1050 resolution?

Yes.
You can test the theory by overclocking the card a bit, say 5 or 10%.
You should normally expect at minimum 2 to 4% increase in framerate.
If it makes no difference to the framerate its because the CPU cannot supply the required workload.

Also try de-clocking the card 5 or 10% and again you should hardly see the framerate change.
Keep de-clocking to find the point at which the framerate does drop substantially, this will give you an idea of how much performance you are missing.

I did a lot of investigation into this and found my old A64 x2 @ 2.8GHz could only drive my 8800GT hard at approx 80% of stock clocks.
Overclocking the card to 120% of stock and putting it in a C2D E8400 system netted around 50% extra framerate!