Need Help Please - XFX 6800NU Problem

[GreenX]

I just built a new system as follows on Friday:

A-Bit IC7-Max2
P4 2.8E o/c 3.1ghz
2 512M Geil 533mhz RAM 2.5-4-4-8
XFX Geforce 6800 w/128M (non ultra or GT)
400W PU
2 120GB Maxtor SATA (RAID-0)

Clean install of Windows XP w/SP1. All MB drivers installed. Nvidia 61.77 Drivers. AA/AF/VSync are OFF and in High Performance mode.

Ran 3DMarks2k3 and scored 5133

Here is my compare link:
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=2911526

Ran 3DMars2k1 SE and scored 14,xxx

Here is my compare link
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=8032759

I did compares on the same video card in the search on 3DMarks and on this forum and many other forums. Also read a review of this same card (128M version) and they all score in 3DMarks in the 9K range.

I am totally puzzled and annoyed and frustrated. Anyone have some lite on this? Would I be wasting my tiem to buy a eVGA card or something else? I don't think the Video Card is bad.

Update:

I ran PCMarks04 and scored 52xx ! 50% less then then someone I searched with the same system!

Link:
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcm04=2513784

 

[Major_A]

Please recheck your motherboard. It isn't on www.abit-usa.com is it not the Max3? Are you sure you have the latest chipset drivers from www.intel.com?

 

[xSyzygy666x]

ya something is definitly wrong....

 

[GreenX]

Yes latest Intel drivers, and the MAX2 is the IC7-G board.

 

[GreenX]

Can no one help? figured this would be a godo place to ask about all these, guess not.

 

[Major_A]

Post your dxdiag for us to look at.

 

[GreenX]

Here is my dxdiag.txt file

DXDIAG FILE

 

[jlee1]

bump

 

[joemama]

Can no one help? figured this would be a godo place to ask about all these, guess not.

Do you have Doom 3 or any other intensive game? Fire it up and see how she runs...

The reason I say this is because I have a very similar setup to yours:
Abit IS7
P4 2.8c@ 3.1
1gb Corsair pc3200
eVGA 6800 GT

with the 61.77's my 3Dmark03 was slightly over 10k...I installed the 65.62 betas and my score tanked into the 8k's... HOWEVER Doom 3 runs faster and smoother than before and also the slight "hiccup" I had with NFS:Underground is gone now. Just more proof that synthetic benchmarks aren't worth worrying about.

 

[CraftyOtter]

I'd use the SiS Sandra benchmarks to individually check your CPU and RAM scores just to be certain everything there is okay. If those are normal, then focus on the video card itself. You should definately be seeing something in the 10k range for 3dmark03 with your system. Did you overclock the 6800 at all? I got a huge performance drop when I nudged the GPU clock a wee bit too far.

 

[GreenX]

No overclocking.

I tried Sis Sandra and when I click refresh to test the CPU/Mem it seems to be frozen? 2004.9.9.133 version. But from above on PCMark my score if very low vs otehr systems.

 

[Major_A]

I just ran 3DMark01 to compare and I am crushing some of your results.
RESULTS
3DMark Score 16604
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 213.5 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 71.2 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 311.3 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 169.1 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 210.0 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 91.5 fps
Game 4 - Nature 131.0 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 2164.3 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 3392.0 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 107.2 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 21.8 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 191.8 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 257.1 fps
Vertex Shader 190.6 fps
Pixel Shader 225.5 fps
Advanced Pixel Shader 235.4 fps
Point Sprites 47.3 MSprites/s

Did you try what I mentioned to you in that PM?
*EDIT*
Look at your driver version in your dxdiag. They aren't all the same, which leads me to believe that you have a problem. Look at the last 4 digits of the driver number.
Name: NVIDIA GeForce 6800
Device ID: PCI\VEN_10DE&DEV_0041&SUBSYS_21021682&REV_A1\4&B7EB302&0&0008
Driver: F:\WINDOWS\System32\DRIVERS\nv4_mini.sys, 6.14.0010.6562 (English), 7/26/2004 08:12:06, 2627136 bytes
Driver: F:\WINDOWS\System32\nvsvc32.exe, 6.14.0010.6562 (English), 7/26/2004 08:12:08, 114754 bytes
Driver: F:\WINDOWS\System32\nvcod.dll, 1.00.0000.0015 (English), 7/26/2004 08:12:06, 32256 bytes
Driver: F:\WINDOWS\System32\nvcodins.dll, 1.00.0000.0015 (English), 7/26/2004 08:12:06, 32256 bytes
Driver: F:\WINDOWS\System32\nv4_disp.dll, 6.14.0010.6562 (English), 7/26/2004 08:12:06, 3761664 bytes
Driver: F:\WINDOWS\System32\nvoglnt.dll, 6.14.0010.6562 (English), 7/26/2004 08:12:08, 5189632 bytes
Driver: F:\WINDOWS\System32\nvcpl.dll, 6.14.0010.6562 (English), 7/26/2004 08:12:08, 4481024 bytes
Driver: F:\WINDOWS\System32\nvmctray.dll, 6.14.0010.6562 (English), 7/26/2004 08:12:08, 86016 bytes
Driver: F:\WINDOWS\System32\nvwddi.dll, 6.14.0010.6177 (English), 7/15/2004 02:42:00, 81920 bytes
Driver: F:\WINDOWS\System32\nvnt4cpl.dll, 6.14.0010.6177 (English), 7/15/2004 02:42:00, 241664 bytes
Driver: F:\WINDOWS\help\nvcpl.hlp, 7/26/2004 08:12:08, 156152 bytes
Driver: F:\WINDOWS\help\nvwcplen.hlp, 7/15/2004 02:42:00, 51281 bytes

 

[CraftyOtter]

No overclocking.

I tried Sis Sandra and when I click refresh to test the CPU/Mem it seems to be frozen?

Oh my. So the benchmark never finishes? Does it crash or do you have to kill it with the task manager? The CPU Arithmetic test takes about 20 seconds on my crappy 1.5 system.

 

[GreenX]

Problem Fixed!

I went and redid winXp AGAIN (LOL, like 3rd time) and did all teh drivers careful and and installed Nvidia drivers last.

New Score 93xx in 3DMarks! Woohoo!

 

[jlee1]

Thank God. I was holding off buying the XFX because of you :-P

 

[burningrave101]

Thank God. I was holding off buying the XFX because of you :-P

Dude lol, people have issues with video cards like this ALL the time.

That doesn't mean there is something wrong with the card itself. Unless the card is overheating then usually its just a driver or system setup issue.

I'm sure people have had issues with the XFX 6800 GT as well but that didn't keep me from buying one the second they were in stock.