7900GTX 512, not performing to full potential help :)

[ginokid]

Hi

I just bought an eVga 7900GTX EGS 512mb cards clocked @ 650/1600mhz.
I play BF2 on all high settings 1280x1024, X4AA and get an average of 50 FPS. Although it plays smooth & looks good other people are telling me my card should be getting better FPS & a few people told me that their FPS are pinned at 100 with the same card.
The video card idle temps 32c, under load in the 50's(c) & all voltage is stable. 6 pin connector connected, 4 pin molex connected to MoBo.
I had the same problem with my dual evga 7800GT OC SE cards in SLI, FPS in the 40's & 50's. Thats why I bought this new card. For all the cash I spend and have good parts I thought I would get better performance.

Thank you in advance,
Gino

My PC spec's are at the bottom of the page.

Below are my BIO's setting.. do they look ok??????

ANY IDEA's???

K8<-->NB HT SPEED = 4X (choices: 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x)
NB-->SB HT SPEED = 4X (choices: 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x)
NB<--SB HT SPEED = 5X (choices: 1x, 2x, 3x, 4x, 5x)
K8<-->NB HT WIDTH = 16/16 (choices: 8x/8x,16x/16x)
NB<-->SB HT WIDTH = 16/16 (choices: 4x/4x,8x/8x,16x/16x)
PCI express maximum payload size = 4096 (choices: 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096)

SSE/SSE2 instructions = enabled (choices: enabled, disabled)
System cachable bios = enabled (choices: enabled, disabled)
Dram Timing selectable = By speed (choices: by speed, auto, manual)
MTRR mapping mode = continuous (choices: continuous, discrete)
32bit dram memory hole = auto (choices: auto, disable)

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AMD Dual Core 4800
Abit AN8 32x SLI x16
Zalman heatsink & fan
4GB Corsair XMS DDR400
1 eVga 7900GTX EGS 512MB
2 Western Digital Raptors Raid 0
Antec Solution Case "(2) 120mm & (1) 80mm fan's"
Antec NeoHE 500w PSU
NEC DVD/CD burner
Floppy drive
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[PsYkHoTiK]

Well for one, you didnt really need 4gb of ram coz it will drop your ram to the slower 2T timings.

How was the performance with the 7800GT in SLI?

If you had familliar problems, follow the steps from this link.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=81429

[Viper007Bond]

I think you should just give up, give the 7900 to me, and go back to 7800 SLI.

[ginokid]

Give you the GTX nice try , I just bought another GTX from Newegg, they are back in stock, now I'll run these big beasts in SLI.

Anyway.. I took 2 gigs out and my timings remained the same.. No where near the specs of the ram.. the timings are supposed to be Cas latency 2 - 2336. But my pc reads them as 3668 @ T2. And my PC only see's 3 gig's out of the 4gb.

The 7800GT OC SE's ran about the same as my 1 GTX.
I RMA'ed the 2 7800gt oc's with newegg for brand new ones so I can sell them

Anyway......
Do my Bios settings look good?? is anything off??

Do you think 2gb is better than having 4gb?

[Chai]

Originally Posted by ginokid

Give you the GTX nice try , I just bought another GTX from Newegg, they are back in stock, now I'll run these big beasts in SLI.

Anyway.. I took 2 gigs out and my timings remained the same.. No where near the specs of the ram.. the timings are supposed to be Cas latency 2 - 2336. But my pc reads them as 3668 @ T2. And my PC only see's 3 gig's out of the 4gb.

The 7800GT OC SE's ran about the same as my 1 GTX.
I RMA'ed the 2 7800gt oc's with newegg for brand new ones so I can sell them

Anyway......
Do my Bios settings look good?? is anything off??

Do you think 2gb is better than having 4gb?

You need to change the timings in the BIOS manually.

[PsYkHoTiK]

Did you try the hotfix I linked in my previous post?

[ginokid]

I TRIED THE HOT FIX... I CAN'T SEE A DIFFERENCE AT ALL
I ALSO DISABLED QUIET N COOL IN THE BIOS.

[ginokid]

Could it be that my MoBo was just a high priced piece of CRAP?
Abit AN8 32x SLI x16

[ZuePhok]

how fast is ur processor running? stock speed?

For dual core user, there are 2 important things u must do (psykho's already posted the link). applying the MS hot fix is one thing, enabling it is another. you must insert PerfEnabledPackageIdle=1 manually. I've exported the key for you. Get it Here (right click save as) and execute it to insert the key.

if it still doesn't work, you can try to set the affinity manually. launch ur game, and then jump back to ur desktop (ctrl+esc). bring up task manager, right click on ur game (applications tab) and select go to process. this will bring you to the next tab. right click again on the highlighted process name and select "Set Affinity". uncheck CPU 1.

if the above fix still doesn't help, you can try to disable Forceware's dual core optimization. we are having too much dual core optimization around (driver & game engine). I will just leave it to the latter to handle the threading task (if it's capable of).
Instruction is available on page 15 of Forceware release note.

1) Launch regedit and determine the current primary display card by looking in
HKey_Local_Machine\Hardware\DeviceMap\Video and note the GUID (global unique identifier assigned by Windows), which is the long string in brackets { } at the end of the entry
ʺ\device\video0ʺ.
2) Look in
HKey_Local_Machine\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Contro l\Video\{GUID}\0000 where {GUID} is the number derived from the previous step.
3) Open the ʺ0000directory and create a new DWORD called OGL_ThreadControl and give it a value of 2.
This will disable multithreading in the driver for all OpenGL applications.
4) If you want to disable driver multithreading for all Direct3D applications–
In the same ʺ0000directory, create a new DWORD called WTD_EXECMODEL and give it a value of 0.

[ginokid]

Question....
Would it be better if I had a regular AMD CPU like an FX57? Would I still have this problem?

I bought the dual core because I thought everything would be faster, I guess it's just a giant headache

Gunna give everything a try now a try now. I'll post back..

Thank you for all you help