WHATS GOING ON WITH MY BFG 6800 GS????

[pcman88]

I had a BFG 6800 oc 16 pipes unlocked and overclocked to 360 and 735.
I score around 63000 on aquamark3 . I got my new 6800gs thinking it was going to kick all over my 6800. BUT i get lower scores in all my benchmarks??? also ide is at 57c. someone please help me out!


I have a Amd 3000 overclocked to 2.2 gigs
1 gig of patriot ram
epox 939 mobo nforce3 ultra



THANKS
kevin

 

[dvdpiddy]

6800gs is crap compard to the 6800le and regular 6800 see with the 6800 and le models u can unlock pies 6800gs u cant just look at the bench marks

 

[pcman88]

NO, the 6800gs is running with the gt. I did unlock the pipes. somthing eles is going on.

 

[dvdpiddy]

NO, the 6800gs is running with the gt. I did unlock the pipes. somthing eles is going on.

you cant unlock pipes in the gs

 

[pcman88]

Go to new egg there is 80 reviews all the people have been able to unlock the pipes on the BFG 6800 GS. But, I dont want to fight over that. Is there anything you can think of why Im getting bad benchmarks? Do i have to reformat of flash the bios or something??

 

[gomerpile]

mybe it is a fake gs this has been known to happen and is a serious problem

 

[Dekkard]

Yes YOU CAN UNLOCK THE PIPES ON A BFG 6800GS BECAUSE THIS IS AN AGP MODEL BUILT ON THE NV40 DESIGN OF THE AGP 6800GT AND ULTRA (i.e. 16 pipe architecture).

The driver support for the GS is woeful at present, I presume you are using the 82.12 beta drivers that came on the CD - these are the most up to date and it would appear that no WHQL drivers remains available. Unless you have another conflict going on (is your PSU giving it enough juice for instance?) I can only suggest keeping an eye out for new drivers and trying those. Are you positive the extra pipes are working ok - I mean did they have a positive influence on your benchmarks and real world performance?
The idle temp you indicate is not unusual on these cards and in my moderately ventilated system my BFG 6800GS idles at 58C but at load doesn't go much over 62C. Check the nvidia and other forums for your mobo as there are a number of conflicts between mobo chipsets and the recent nvidia drivers on the 6 series cards - AMD 76x series and nforce3 all have issues reported. Were you previously running older nvidia drivers?

 

[Dekkard]

Also, are you currently OCing your new GS?

 

[pcman88]

no I turn of the 16 pipes and have not oced.
Im going tio contact BFG... THIS SUCKS

 

[apesoccer]

What are your current bench scores per benchmark?

 

[pcman88]

66588 onaquamark and 5255 on 3dmark05
16/6 are open i just cant seem to overclock.but evryone eles can on the BFg 6800 gs

 

[metalweenis]

those scores are fine dude and are what the gs usually gets.

 

[apesoccer]

5255 is great...Probably what you're worried about is that there are 10000 scores showing up under the same gs name. It's just that they're running sli...that's all. It doesn't say it's running sli, but it is...anything above 7000 with a 6800gt, gs, ultra...is in sli.


Single 6800GT
OC'd
5914 3800+ and 6800GT on a Jetway sli
5788 3000+ and a 6800GT on a Jetway sli
5349 P4 3.0 and BFG 6800GT AGP on MSI
Stock
4544 3000+ and 6800GT on Asus a8n-sli deluxe
4570 3500+ and 6800GT on Asus a8n-sli deluxe
4805 P4 3.0 and BFG (stock oc) on MSI


SLI
OC'd
10627 3800+ 2x6800GT's on Asus a8n-sli premium
9416 3000+ 2x6800GT's on Jetway sli
8922 3000+ 2x6800GT's on Asus a8n-sli deluxe
Stock
8625 3800+ 2x6800GT on Jetway sli
8243 3000+ 2x6800GT's on Jetway sli

 

[pcman88]

The only problem I have is I cant seem to oc my card. Is it do to the drivers? the only drivers out right now are the beta. Do beta driver stop you from overclocking? other than that im pleased with the card

 

[apesoccer]

You need to know how to oc the card? Or it won't take an oc?