Is my 8800 broken?

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Nick_Leo

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well with my 8800gts i cannot play css on high or else i get like 54fps max. the only game i can really play on high is black and white 2 but i only get around 34fps so im wonder is it being bottlenecked or is it broken. i have 2 gigs of pc6400 crucial ram and a pentium D 820. my friend has same card but a e6600 and he can run anything on high.so whats goin on??
 
Yeah I think it's your processor because some single cores are better then the pentium d's. I would say if you are on a budget and can only spend a limited amount buy either a e2160 or a e4300. The e2160 overclocks really nicely. But if you are not on a budget just buy a core 2 duo.
 
im most likely getting the e6850 or e6600 depends if im gettting it soon or waiting
 
Very strange, my Old PC handled CSS at full with 60+ fps avg. That was a 6800GT and a AMD FX-55. I'd guess it's your cpu tough.
 
i did a clean install of vista when i got it and when i was running xp for a fewdays that was also a clean install.
 
Defrag. Driver cleaner, new beta drivers from Nzone.com, see if things improve. If not, you have some kind of serious issue.

Is the card getting enough power? You claim your PSU 'sucks' in your sig. Might be time to do something about that.

If you don't believe it's a power problem and new drivers don't solve this, RMA your card. My old Athlon 64 3500+ single core and X800XT could hit above 90 FPS in CS:S at 1600x1200. If your GTX isn't giving you near to 200 FPS, something is wrong. Vsync is off, right? Use the nvidia control panel and force it off just to be sure.
 
Is the card getting enough power? You claim your PSU 'sucks' in your sig. Might be time to do something about that.
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thats because its very loud and heats up my room/case like hell.
 
vsync is off now and then i went into black and white 2 and it was very blurry and i was getting 18fps.
 
The Pentium Ds are not in the same league as C2D or CD Intel chips, but my brother's one-year-old 3.06 D can game just fine with the proper card. Your rig should have few problems giving you solid frame rates at max settings in pretty much any game around 1650x1050.
 
How about trying a minor overclock on your CPU first, to see if you get a good fps bump. If you do then thats a sign your CPU is holding you back.
 
FIDDYOWNZ said:
Bingo. Don't waste more money on a new CPU just yet. Explain your problem with Tech and hopefully you'll get a replacement. If the prob continues, there is really no other option than to get a new proc.
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Ragenrok said:
How about trying a minor overclock on your CPU first, to see if you get a good fps bump. If you do then thats a sign your CPU is holding you back.
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Both good suggestions, although the latter should be experimented with before the former :)
 
Make sure to uninstall the drivers via safe mode and completely remove them then: Latest BIOS -> Latest Chip-Set drivers from nVidia -> Latest Video drivers from nVidia

If it is still performing poorly then RMA.
 
What is your OS, PSU? I would normally expect the 8800GTS to be CPU-bounded by that 820, but not to the degree that you are experiencing.
 
another thought. Grab CPU-z and see what bandwidth your card is running at. I've heard of a few people whos cards for no reason would start running at 1x instead of 16x.

Im trying to avoid the RMA option as much as possible, its such a pain in the ass.

If you have another computer to test your card or atleast another PSU to try out I'd do that. Mabey grab rivatuner and watch the core clock speeds and such while playing games, if they begin to clock themselvs down as you play then that tells you you power supply is unable to power your card and you need a new one.

Like I said before try a small OC on your CPU and see what kind of fps improvments you get then report back.
 
ok, well thats gives you a good place to test your card. run a benchmark test on his computer wiht his card (such as 3dmark06) then swap out your card and re-run the test this would be a good way to determin if your card is dead. (proivding there the same cards witht he same clocks). also after installing your card into his computer run cs and see whats your fps is.

EDIT: I just checked the link to your PSU, thats the same kind of PSU I use (and same place I bought it from lol) in my sig rig. Though its definetly not the best quality PSU it gets the job done. Mind you I had to rma my first one, it stopped working after about 3 weeks of using it. When you can afford it I would replace that PSU even if its not broken.
 
well hes goin to carabein tomorrow so i cant get over there till like a week and i did cpuz and it was running 16x
 
Well that PSU should deliver enough ampage on the 12V.....36A should be enough. I don't know if it's possible the PSU is bad or has a bad rail or something, as I haven't had a bad one yet myself. You might want to try changing PCI-E connectors just to try it out, as your PSU seems to have 2 of them.

You'll know wheter it's the card or not after you try it in your friend's PC anyways.
 
well im just goin to rma it then probally barrow my friends 7900gs while its in rma. hopefully when i get another it wont be a peice of crap
 
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