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Hi all,

I'm brand new here, so be gentle if you're going to flame me for posting in the wrong forum. I poked around a bit and didn't find a good spot for this.

Tomorrow I pick up a Dell 3007. To prep for this I bought a 7950GX2 and put it into my machine. My box is an HP a1230n. AMD64 3700+ with 2 gigs of RAM. For some reason the performance wasn't even close to acceptable, so I ran a 3dMark03 and scored a 13,400.

I figured my power supply wasn't adequate, so I bought a BFG 650W psu and installed that. I now get a 14,500 '03 score, but thats still craptastic.

I've updated my BIOS with the newest version, verified that my on-board video is not enabled and I'm using the newest Nvidia drivers.

Can anyone suggest the next step I should take?

Thanks so much,
Jeff
 
power supply might be too lite for the task .. uninstall onboard video drivers perhaps

2 possibilities anyways


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Use Driver Cleaner to get rid of all your current and previous video drivers. Reboot then install the latest Forcewares. You may also want to reinstall Windows, depending on what kind of performance you get after reinstalling the drivers.
 
Umm, i would ask what resolution are you running right now? If you are running anything lower than 1680x1050 your GX2 is bottlenecked by your CPU. Also another possibility is that you might have uninstalled and installed the driver improperly. Run the uninstall utility for Forceware, and then reboot, go into safe mode and run Driver Cleaner to get rid of left overs. Then re-install the drivers and see if that helps.
 
i think here is your real answer.


i was suffering this problem when i first got the card, after awhile me and a few people found this to be the solution.

the video card defaults in the drivers to "multi display mode"

there are a few things you need to check.

First set your display mode to Multi-GPU mode (this should already be selected)

then go into manage 3D settings (if you dont see this you need to go to view>advanced)

then look under Global settings and change Hardware Acceleration from Multiple Display performance mode, to Single display performance mode.
 
Thanks for all the advice folks. Here is what I've done:

Verified from XFX that the card requires 27amps. BFG states that each rail provides 40 amps. So the power supply is adequate if not defective.

The onboard video is disabled and was uninstalled and cleaned.

I'm currently running at 1600x1200 on an old 19" Dell monitor. I pick up the 3007 tomorrow and will attempt to use the native res.

I changed the settings to Multi-GPU mode and Single display performance mode.

Still getting 14300ish 3dMark03 scores using the latest drivers from Nvidia. I was able to get to nearly 15,000 using some optimised drivers from 3dguru.

I'm at a loss at this point. The idea of a reformat makes me cringe but I'll certainly do it if I need to. Any other suggestions?
 
So I reformatted...

And ran a worse score then before. If I didn't live on the first floor I'd jump out my window.

Any other ideas?
 
I exchanged the card and now the artifacts are gone,but the speed is still very lacking. At this point I guess I should assume the card and my motherboard just aren't in love with each other.
 
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