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wasteomind

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can someone explain to me why when i moved my geforce 4 ti4600 out of this machine, into a machine upstairs that has all the same components (except the one upstairs has 3200 ram instead of 2700) there is a drastic performance decrease? in this comp it was scoring over 12,000 in 3dmark2001, and in the other machine it scores just a bit above 8,000. it was on a clean formated install to? any ideas?

system :
Epox 8rda+ mainboard
AMD Athlon XP Barton 2500+ (oced to 3200+)
1 gig pc2700 ram
Nvidia Geforce 4 ti 4600
Sound Blaster Audigy
60 gig harddrive
Windows Xp
 
Hm....well what about drivers? Download the latest from Nvidia and see if anything changes.

Also is this other comp AGP 2/4/8?
 
newest nvidia drivers from site 61.77 i believe. newest nforce drivers. all drivers are current. the mainboard has an 8x agp i believe so i don't think thats the problem
 
Positive all BIOS settings are the same?

Fast Write, AGP 8X, etc....

PCI cards in different places? AGP shares with PCI 1 or 2 usually, but I don't forsee a REAL problem there, just something to check...

Try swapping the 3200 ram into the other sys and see if performance degrades?
 
also when you removed it and moved it were you grounded? or did you just blatantly palm it on dry on day?

ed* did you check case temps? maybe its getting too hot....although it probably would artifact and crash if that happened...you never know...
 
With the 4600 I've actually had better luck with older driver versions.

The last good drivers that I used with the 4600 were the 41.xx versions.

You might want to try an older version anywhere from 30.xx to 41.xx.
 
What video card did you have in the machine upstairs before you put the Ti 4600 in it?

Uninstall the drivers and then download and run Driver Cleaner in Safe Mode. Then re-install the drivers.

What drivers were you using in the other machine downstairs?
 
If your driver version is the same on both computers, then that shouldn't be an issue. I used the 45.23s with my Ti4600 for quite a while, however. Now I use the 61.77s. Did you make sure to install your chipset drivers after you did all of your windows updates?

Your install order should look like this:
Windows XP
SP2 (basically perform all windows updating)
Chipset drivers (VIA 4in1, Nvidia Nforce Unified, Intel INF, etc...)
Video card driver (catalyst, forceware, omega, etc)
Sound card drivers
Any other hardware drivers

Then, install any additional software and games
 
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