Very strange occurences after a electrical mishap, may have amde a "monster" out of my vid card!
I have some freinds that enjoy me working on their computers (for what reason who knows) and I enjoy it because they usualy have the oney to upgrade often and it gives me the oppurtunity to see newer hardware in action(since I am so poor)
I have one freind who is starting a music stuido, runs Reason and Pro Tools on one of his computers there.
Recently he had a problem with his computer not posting, thi8nking it was his graphics he imediatley got to work (he loves to tinker with his pc, crew it up then call me to fix it.... lol....)
I had recently given him one of my BFG 6800GT's OC with the blue led copper cooler, installed a giany Zalman copper flower with copper memory sinks.
GPU Clock 370mhz
Memory 1000mhz
He called me and told me the problems and stated he had worked on it trying to fix things with no luck, this being his studio, it has to be ready 24/7 to accomidate for musicians coming in anytime they want to to record.
He finally agreed to me coming down and taking a look he said he had tried everything he could think of (which usualy consists of buying new psu's, memory etc to do quick fixes he call them)
After close inspection I noticed he had not connected the 4 pin molex tothe vid card before starting it,m asking him about it he said he had heard tones coming from the computer when he tried to start it but didnt know what they were for....lol... 8(
I connected veerything, made a quick check on all connections, connected psu tester etc... blah blah blah.....
Ater quick turn on, nothing so I decided to shut it down and not take too many chances, I then removed the 6800gt, installed a different agp card, still problems so I installed a pci vid card and wah lah! (making this story as quick a possible 8))
Basically the AGP slot had fried or whatever (not an expert by far) so I reassembled it all, got it going again, told him the 6800 was probably fried also so I told him I would test iot later and all....
I have a computer at home with the same vid card so thought I would give it one more shot just to make sure at home.
After installing the 6800, I made sure we were all setup ready to go, even uninstalled drivers, used driver cleaner, re-installed etc.... Card actually booted up and ran!...8)
I have a graphics tester prgram (not even sure where I got it etc.. its been so long ago) written by Masaki Kawase www.daionet.gr.jp/'masa??? something like that... anyway....
To my astonishment it looked as if things were running faster than usual, than with my usual bfg 6800gt oc card!
I dont remember exactly but seemed it was running 20-30 more fps...
I have NV hard page installed so I activated the overcloacking abilities etc....
Basicaly I didnt pay much attention to all of this at first then decided to take a closer look, when I opened the Nvidia p[anel, to my stonishment, an error showed up to say that my memory clok was now running at 2.0 ghz, LMAO!... Knowing this had to be an error, I decided to uninstall all the drivers for the card, hard page etc.... then re-install to show the correct speeds...
OOPS! It again showed a default memory speed of 2.0ghz!
Again, knowing for sure this had to be some kind of error, I even installed a new hard drive and started over freash to show the error was somewhere in the program... Well thank god, after all of this I looked once more and WAH LAH!
IT AGAIN READ DEFAULT MEMORY SPEED WAS 2 GHZ!
I than began to check much closer, temps etc....
Temps were just slightly higher showing on core, to touch memory temps were basicaly no different, not smell of frying etc!....lol...
Basicaly no matter what I do this card shows the memory running at 2ghz and when I allow the p[anel to auto overclock it goes to about 450 GPU core and 2.15 to 2.25 ghz on the memory!
Lately I see a performance boost in alot of games, Oblivion etc.... as well there was one benchmark tool that seemd to run so fast it was rediculous (just cant remember what it was, it was on an older hard drive I was testing with and I stupidly erased most of that drive)
On the drive I use daily, I see the boost in performance but cant do too much with it, I also do graphic design and dont want to wipe that drive out, its a 160gb drive thats about %95 full with everything from designs to garbage downloaded years ago....lol...
I recently decided to do some upgrades, I have a Intel cd2 e6400 and new motherboard with 2 gb's of ocz gold dual channel I am going to put together soon (b4 end of the month) and I will get another drive I can load just to do testing on things.
Bottom line, can yopu tell me what you would use to do some comparisons with thios vid card and my other one that may show why this is doing what its doing?
Any tests you all would like me to try and see whats going on with this card exactly?
Thought this was strange and just wanted to share it with you, maybe find out what exactyly could have happened to make this difference, especially the ram showingh up as 2ghz default speeds.... lol .....
Thanks for your time, youve been great!
DaVeryMorbid1
I have some freinds that enjoy me working on their computers (for what reason who knows) and I enjoy it because they usualy have the oney to upgrade often and it gives me the oppurtunity to see newer hardware in action(since I am so poor)
I have one freind who is starting a music stuido, runs Reason and Pro Tools on one of his computers there.
Recently he had a problem with his computer not posting, thi8nking it was his graphics he imediatley got to work (he loves to tinker with his pc, crew it up then call me to fix it.... lol....)
I had recently given him one of my BFG 6800GT's OC with the blue led copper cooler, installed a giany Zalman copper flower with copper memory sinks.
GPU Clock 370mhz
Memory 1000mhz
He called me and told me the problems and stated he had worked on it trying to fix things with no luck, this being his studio, it has to be ready 24/7 to accomidate for musicians coming in anytime they want to to record.
He finally agreed to me coming down and taking a look he said he had tried everything he could think of (which usualy consists of buying new psu's, memory etc to do quick fixes he call them)
After close inspection I noticed he had not connected the 4 pin molex tothe vid card before starting it,m asking him about it he said he had heard tones coming from the computer when he tried to start it but didnt know what they were for....lol... 8(
I connected veerything, made a quick check on all connections, connected psu tester etc... blah blah blah.....
Ater quick turn on, nothing so I decided to shut it down and not take too many chances, I then removed the 6800gt, installed a different agp card, still problems so I installed a pci vid card and wah lah! (making this story as quick a possible 8))
Basically the AGP slot had fried or whatever (not an expert by far) so I reassembled it all, got it going again, told him the 6800 was probably fried also so I told him I would test iot later and all....
I have a computer at home with the same vid card so thought I would give it one more shot just to make sure at home.
After installing the 6800, I made sure we were all setup ready to go, even uninstalled drivers, used driver cleaner, re-installed etc.... Card actually booted up and ran!...8)
I have a graphics tester prgram (not even sure where I got it etc.. its been so long ago) written by Masaki Kawase www.daionet.gr.jp/'masa??? something like that... anyway....
To my astonishment it looked as if things were running faster than usual, than with my usual bfg 6800gt oc card!
I dont remember exactly but seemed it was running 20-30 more fps...
I have NV hard page installed so I activated the overcloacking abilities etc....
Basicaly I didnt pay much attention to all of this at first then decided to take a closer look, when I opened the Nvidia p[anel, to my stonishment, an error showed up to say that my memory clok was now running at 2.0 ghz, LMAO!... Knowing this had to be an error, I decided to uninstall all the drivers for the card, hard page etc.... then re-install to show the correct speeds...
OOPS! It again showed a default memory speed of 2.0ghz!
Again, knowing for sure this had to be some kind of error, I even installed a new hard drive and started over freash to show the error was somewhere in the program... Well thank god, after all of this I looked once more and WAH LAH!
IT AGAIN READ DEFAULT MEMORY SPEED WAS 2 GHZ!
I than began to check much closer, temps etc....
Temps were just slightly higher showing on core, to touch memory temps were basicaly no different, not smell of frying etc!....lol...
Basicaly no matter what I do this card shows the memory running at 2ghz and when I allow the p[anel to auto overclock it goes to about 450 GPU core and 2.15 to 2.25 ghz on the memory!
Lately I see a performance boost in alot of games, Oblivion etc.... as well there was one benchmark tool that seemd to run so fast it was rediculous (just cant remember what it was, it was on an older hard drive I was testing with and I stupidly erased most of that drive)
On the drive I use daily, I see the boost in performance but cant do too much with it, I also do graphic design and dont want to wipe that drive out, its a 160gb drive thats about %95 full with everything from designs to garbage downloaded years ago....lol...
I recently decided to do some upgrades, I have a Intel cd2 e6400 and new motherboard with 2 gb's of ocz gold dual channel I am going to put together soon (b4 end of the month) and I will get another drive I can load just to do testing on things.
Bottom line, can yopu tell me what you would use to do some comparisons with thios vid card and my other one that may show why this is doing what its doing?
Any tests you all would like me to try and see whats going on with this card exactly?
Thought this was strange and just wanted to share it with you, maybe find out what exactyly could have happened to make this difference, especially the ram showingh up as 2ghz default speeds.... lol .....
Thanks for your time, youve been great!
DaVeryMorbid1
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