9600 GT is severly being bottlenecked.

[rockstone1]

About 3% to 8%. And yes, its not doing anything.

I'm going to restart and enter the bios one last time.

 

[EXT64]

Hmm, I'm at a loss. Sounds like software, but the problem could be buried pretty deep.

 

[rockstone1]

I don't want to reinstall and find out it does nothing...


Could I dual boot a copy of XP and try everything there?

Is there any diagnostic information I could give you?

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Try this, do you have VSYNC on or off?

 

[EXT64]

I know very little about dual booting, but if you could and the problem was still there we could rule out software.

As for diagnostics you posted 3D mark which shows there is a problem.

One last thing, have you tried both the drivers on the CD and from NVidia? Also be sure to uninstall/clean up the old drivers.

 

[rockstone1]

The Drivers on the CD don't work with x64 vista.

I uninstaller the old drivers, cleaned the registry, and reinstalled them, so they are fine.

And for vertical sync, its off.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Turn VSYNC ON!!! Its important you leave vsnc on all DX10 apps

 

[rockstone1]

Whats the difference?

Edit:

And even so, direct x 9 Crisis does the same thing.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Anands found a direct correlation between poor performance in Crysis with vsync off.

 

[rockstone1]

Ah, well.

On or off Crysis DID the same thing.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Well, heres what they said http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3275&p=4 This may or may not help you, but maybe others

 

[rockstone1]

I'll try.

 

[rockstone1]

No change.

 

[chaosgs]

well time to mail in that Card, but before you do put that 6800 back in there and change the drivers and see if the 6800 works, if it does work and by work i mean decent fps than the 9600 gt is broken.

 

[EXT64]

Yep, I second Chaos. I'm out of ideas. Good luck.

 

[chaosgs]

and if you want to know a bad bottle neck heres mine:

AMD BE-2300 1.8 GHZ
Geforce 7950 GX2
PSU 350 watts

The cpu is bottlenecking the video card and the psu is bottlenecking both the cpu and video card.

Im getting like 70% of the gaming performance i should be getting (according to other benchmarks).

And yep if you dont have enough power for your video card it seems to under perform alot.

 

[EXT64]

I always hear that (underpowered=underperformed), but in my case it performed fine but would restart after a while. After I upgraded the PSU it performs the came but never crashes now. I guess your results may vary. Just too many variables.

 

[4745454b]

We have a score of 6000, but we STILL don't have a brake down of the scores. (CPU, SM2, SM3) He also hasn't said much about his PSU, other then he bought it separate from his case, and what the individual rails can do. Frankly, I'd like to have some more info before making any decisions.

Did anyone else catch that when he bumped his res up, he gained 3 more FPS? Actually, looking at ORB, 6000 might be exactly what he's supposed to have.

http://service.futuremark.com/search/form.action

The lowest of the submitted scores with the 9600GT and a dual core FX-60 (which is better then his 4000x2) was 6999, not far off of his 6000 score.

 

[randomizer]

You are aware that both the Mac machine AND the windows machine were hacked in that contest. Only the Linux laptop wasn't penetrated. In the mac they got in using Safari and the Mac firewall wasn't turned on. On the Windows, they used Adobe Flash to provide a door into the Windows box....Windows firewall was on. Looks like both exploits will ultimately be proven to be "cross platform"

Yes I am aware that both were hacked. What's your point? That Safari is a good web browser?

@Topic: 3DMark isn't much use, because the CPU score will be alot lower on an AMD rig, even if ingame framerates aren't much different.

 

[rockstone1]

3DMark Score 7201 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 3013
CPU Score 1633

It broke the 7000 mark all the sudden, not that bad.

Maybe it isn't the card, but something is slowing most of the games...

I'll try call of duty 4 tomorrow.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

What's your point?

My point, which I thought was quite clear, is that neither side has anything to crow about.

As far as Safari, on a mobile device, the iPhone/Safari - WM6/IE comparison is like comparing Angelina Jolie's Laura Croft with TV's Ugly Betty. But on the desktop, I think Safari is still "cooking in the oven" and not quite ready yet. At this stage of its infancy, it certainly fairs better than early versions of IE. Neither is gonna move me away from Firefox at this point in time.

 

[roadrunner197069]

Its your CPU, always was always will be.

 

[rockstone1]

Please stop an OS discussion on a thread about a problem with my system.

Now Roadrunner, Your an intel fanboy. You like Nvidia.

Then tell me what the hells wrong with the video card?!

 

[randomizer]

What is your SM3.0 score?

 

[randomizer]

What's your point?

My point, which I thought was quite clear, is that neither side has anything to crow about.

As far as Safari, on a mobile device, the iPhone/Safari - WM6/IE comparison is like comparing Angelina Jolie's Laura Croft with TV's Ugly Betty. But on the desktop, I think Safari is still "cooking in the oven" and not quite ready yet. At this stage of its infancy, it certainly fairs better than early versions of IE. Neither is gonna move me away from Firefox at this point in time.

And all that off a coment I made about safari. Why do people seem to think they need to defend multinational corporations from anonymous people on the internet?