Uncle Meat
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- Apr 29, 2008
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So I just put my new system together last night and have only got Win 7 Pro loaded and a few bench marking apps. Once all the drivers were updated I've been going through and testing the different subsystems to ensure the performance is where it should be. Everything was looking good without a hitch, or so I thought until I ran 3DMark11 to see what this new video card could do. Ran the 3DMark11 basic edition Performance test (1280X720) and only scored 5221! FPS never exceeded 33! I know this card should perform better than that! So I thought maybe the drivers Sapphire provided with the card on CD might be better than the latest version downloaded from AMD. Removed latest drivers and installed Sapphire drivers. Realized the Sapphire provided driver disc contained the same software as the AMD driver download site, only a few versions older. Ran test with older drivers and got the same results.
Would the PCIe slot the card is mounted in have any impact on performance? Out of the three slots available on my ASUS P8Z68-V Pro I took the middle one because it allowed more room between the CPU cooler and the video card.
Ideas? I did a web search and found a few other instances of poor results like mine, but never any resolutions...
U.M.
Would the PCIe slot the card is mounted in have any impact on performance? Out of the three slots available on my ASUS P8Z68-V Pro I took the middle one because it allowed more room between the CPU cooler and the video card.
Ideas? I did a web search and found a few other instances of poor results like mine, but never any resolutions...
U.M.