Greetings gentlemen and thank you for your time. I am in most dire need of support. After much turmoil I finally got my new computer booted. I had a motherboard/PSU conflict and have since finally fixed it by replacing my MSI P965 Platinum with an Nvidia Nforce680i SLI.
My current set up:
Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo at stock 2.4 Ghz 4MB Cache
2 Gigs Patriot DDR2800 PC 6400
Nvidia Nforce 680i SLI Mobo
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX
Big Typhoon CPU Fan
Sata 500 Gig Hard drive
1 17 dollar dvd reader
WINDOWS VISTA 64 Bit Home Premium Edition
Now I installed Vista and proceeded to download all the updates. The stock Mobo drivers that came with my Nvidia 680i mobo wouldn't take because they were 32 bit, so I used Windows Update to update the motherboard drivers. I then proceeded to install Nvidia 8800 GTX drivers from the CD that came from PNY. Then I installed the newest 158.18 Drivers for Vista 64 bit Edition from Nvidia's webpage.
I ran company of heroes with all effects maxed out with no AA at 1024x768, expecting amazing results. I got approximately an average of 15 FPS. Thinking this odd I checked steam to see if HL2 and CSS had finished downloading. I tried to play either game but the menu screens would instantly crash once booted and I had to console to exit the game. Then I finally got 3D Mark 06 to work after redownloading it. I got about 3000 marks... and comparable to my old AMD64 3800+ 2x6800GTs SLI, that is just horrid. My heart caves in as 3D Mark compares my score to other systems with the same hardware. I'm about 12,000 points away from what the average user reports for the exact same system specs.
Guys what the hell is going on!
My current set up:
Intel E6600 Core 2 Duo at stock 2.4 Ghz 4MB Cache
2 Gigs Patriot DDR2800 PC 6400
Nvidia Nforce 680i SLI Mobo
Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX
Big Typhoon CPU Fan
Sata 500 Gig Hard drive
1 17 dollar dvd reader
WINDOWS VISTA 64 Bit Home Premium Edition
Now I installed Vista and proceeded to download all the updates. The stock Mobo drivers that came with my Nvidia 680i mobo wouldn't take because they were 32 bit, so I used Windows Update to update the motherboard drivers. I then proceeded to install Nvidia 8800 GTX drivers from the CD that came from PNY. Then I installed the newest 158.18 Drivers for Vista 64 bit Edition from Nvidia's webpage.
I ran company of heroes with all effects maxed out with no AA at 1024x768, expecting amazing results. I got approximately an average of 15 FPS. Thinking this odd I checked steam to see if HL2 and CSS had finished downloading. I tried to play either game but the menu screens would instantly crash once booted and I had to console to exit the game. Then I finally got 3D Mark 06 to work after redownloading it. I got about 3000 marks... and comparable to my old AMD64 3800+ 2x6800GTs SLI, that is just horrid. My heart caves in as 3D Mark compares my score to other systems with the same hardware. I'm about 12,000 points away from what the average user reports for the exact same system specs.
Guys what the hell is going on!