I recently purchased at 7800GS to replace my aging 9800pro. I uninstalled everything properly, cleaned off the old drivers with Driver Cleaner Pro, and installed the most up to day forceware drivers i could find. I was expecting a substantial performance increase due to the fact that people had told me the 7800gs was roughly twice as fast as a 9800pro. Whether that is true or not...I'm not sure, but I have experienced a DROP in performance with my upgrade. My system components are as follows:
P4 Northwood 2.6gHz 800mHz FSB
1gb Corsair XMS pc-3200
120gb HD
Gigabyte MB
In some cases, I do experience a higher MAX framerate...but this is not consistant. However when there are intense battle sequences and close combat, my framerate drops to a point about 15-20 fps lower than it would be with the 9800pro under the same situation.
The best example of this poor performance is in Counterstrike: Source.
Quake 4 runs about the same on both cards and HL2 is also about equal.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated as I am very dissapointed in the performance I have received. Thanks in advance for any advice you guys could give me.
P4 Northwood 2.6gHz 800mHz FSB
1gb Corsair XMS pc-3200
120gb HD
Gigabyte MB
In some cases, I do experience a higher MAX framerate...but this is not consistant. However when there are intense battle sequences and close combat, my framerate drops to a point about 15-20 fps lower than it would be with the 9800pro under the same situation.
The best example of this poor performance is in Counterstrike: Source.
Quake 4 runs about the same on both cards and HL2 is also about equal.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated as I am very dissapointed in the performance I have received. Thanks in advance for any advice you guys could give me.