My original observation was that a lack of power or faulty wiring was causing the low FPS. But after installing the new power adapter there was no difference. I then decided to double check my findings by unplugging one six-pin. My reasoning was that if one of the adapters was faulty it would not make a difference to running of the card if the aforementioned adapter was unplugged. After doing this it refused to boot, I then swapped connectors, same result. I then reconnected the power connectors and it booted. It therefore cannot be power related issue.
I then decided to do some quantifiable testing by running Aquamark 3. It returned a GPU result of 18 000. I then compared this to the results posted online by similar setups. I was shocked because similarly specd systems achieved over 65 000 GPU independent points. Give or take a few thousand, this is a significant difference. The graphics card in my system is clearly not bottle-necked by anything. That leaves the culprit as the graphics card.
I also noticed some very weird readings in GPU-Z when compared to other GTX 285's. GPU-Z reads the texture and pixel fill rates at about 10% less than that of a stock GTX 285. Also it reads the Sub-vendor ID as undefinable, every other GTX 285 that I have seen has had a sub vendor ID. This can be seen in the below image.
But perhaps weirdest of all I decided to underclock it as an experiment. I would like to remind you that underclocking can do no harm to the card unlike overclocking. I set the Core/Shader/Memory to 500Mhz using Riva Tuner and I reran Aquamark, it returned 20 000 GPU points, ridiculous. Also using that underclock COD 4 and Crysis performance stayed roughly the same as it was previously.
I then decided to do some quantifiable testing by running Aquamark 3. It returned a GPU result of 18 000. I then compared this to the results posted online by similar setups. I was shocked because similarly specd systems achieved over 65 000 GPU independent points. Give or take a few thousand, this is a significant difference. The graphics card in my system is clearly not bottle-necked by anything. That leaves the culprit as the graphics card.
I also noticed some very weird readings in GPU-Z when compared to other GTX 285's. GPU-Z reads the texture and pixel fill rates at about 10% less than that of a stock GTX 285. Also it reads the Sub-vendor ID as undefinable, every other GTX 285 that I have seen has had a sub vendor ID. This can be seen in the below image.
But perhaps weirdest of all I decided to underclock it as an experiment. I would like to remind you that underclocking can do no harm to the card unlike overclocking. I set the Core/Shader/Memory to 500Mhz using Riva Tuner and I reran Aquamark, it returned 20 000 GPU points, ridiculous. Also using that underclock COD 4 and Crysis performance stayed roughly the same as it was previously.
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