Little Help Please

[KillerUk]

Re: Little Help Please

5100 odd is alot lower then most people with the same spec as me though isnt it? Thats in 3DMark05.

[WiredEvolution]

Re: Little Help Please

KillerUK,
Your mobo is the MSI K8N Diamond SLI mobo? If it is make sure your card is in the 16x speed slot. Using a card in an 8x slot wont effect games that much but it will hurt your synthetic benchmarks.

My GTX in the 8x slot scored something like 7500, and I freaked! Once I realised the 8xspeed slot might be effecting it I reverted back to the 16x slot and got a more satisfying 8500 (or whatever the figures were... but it was a big difference).


Make sure you're using a 16x speed slot.
Your display properties can tell you this, see screeny above.

Best of luck!
Gary




PS-
correct order for installing windoze and drivers. Juggling them around isn't recommended unless ur very thorough in removing old drivers. Just a reminder:

1. Windows
2. Mobo drivers
3. Graphics card driver (use a proven one... latest doesn't = greatest!)
4. SP2, Updates
5. Firewall, AV
6. BF2 !!!111

PS2-
I found this for you, a guy having a similar problem to you with the same mobo. Here.

[KillerUk]

Re: Little Help Please

Just want to say a HUGE thanks to WiredEvolution for talking to me on msn and helping me iron out some problems I was having with my PC.

Thanks a lot mate

[KillerUk]

Re: Little Help Please

WiredEvolution helped me improve my score just a tad



Thanks again :)

[WiredEvolution]

Re: Little Help Please

Glad to help!
Yeah 5100 > 7550 is a nice improvement!

For anyone else reading here the initial problem (low 3dmark 05) was fixed by upping the voltage to CPU and RAM. The problem (which also caused a boot issue) was being caused by KillerUK's CPU and RAM being under-volted by his mobo. His mobo is an enthusiast one; so tweaking is required -plug n play doesn't necessarily apply.

Also nice to see Phil's 7800 GT comfortably overclocked to 475/1.15 and the copper BFG cooler keeps it a positively frosty 45C after 3Dmark!

Well done!
G

PS-
phil's 3DMark05 worked out like this:
Score before voltage fix: 5100
Score after: 6907
Score with OC GT: 7550

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: Little Help Please

Still seems low.

[KillerUk]

Re: Little Help Please

considering how much more your graphics card is overclocked then mine, if mine is low i would also say yours is..

[lil_jimmy_norton]

Re: Little Help Please

50 mhz core and 50Mhz mem shouldn't make 1000pt diffrence.

[bisley]

Re: Little Help Please

Go to www.msicomputer.com and work your way to the support/download section. D/l and install MSI LiveUpdate and then use that to update your chipset and various other system drivers. Just leave the BIOS alone.

Agreed , MSI's update tool is one of the best and easiest ways to update your rig .All done for you , which is nice !

[WiredEvolution]

Re: Little Help Please

50 mhz core and 50Mhz mem shouldn't make 1000pt diffrence.

But your processor is overclocked to 2.85 (on water, no less). Besides, give him some time to tweak n oc n he'll get close to those points, on air. Finding the best forceware, updating bios and up to date files using the MSI Update thing rymaples (keep on bumping into you :P) suggested will help squeeze out them points.

(EDIT) Also, 7550 is a pretty good score for a GT. Below are from extremetech using an fx-55 setup.


But at the end of the day 3dmark is synthetic, n all that tweaking = less time playin BF2!

Nice rig tho jimmy! I want water+DD blocks on my gtx!!
G