Any help much appreciated, 7900GTO runs at half speed!

if you have 1mb ram then your score is way too high im afraid

Have you checked out the power to it? usually thats the biggest problem. Might also wanna d/l Riva tuner and see what your clock speeds are.

D/l CPU-Z and check the PCI-E frequency, if it says 1x then try checking on the BIOS if you can change anything.

Roxor, the bios says my expanded memory is being detected.

Slim142, CPU-Z says Link Width x 1 Max Supported x 16.

randomizer, external power is connected, fan is spinning, I think you get a warning if it's not.

Xazax310, core is 650, memory is 660, which is default.

spanner_razor, I only have one PCI-E slot, no they don't fit into regular PCI, and the removal method is much improved over AGP.

Xazax310, I'm not sure 1GB RAM shold be affecting the scores all this much. It's 4.4.4.14 memory. 512MB on the card. Am I wrong on this?

Thanks for the replies everyone. I do have a problem then? ALso I can see the golden ends of the card sticking out of the PCI-E slot slightly, is this maybe the problem? I don't have any graphical problems though.

I did get occasonal errors with 93.71 with nv-disp.dll something, that's why I upgraded to .81, noticed the performance loss, downgraded, then went down to 91.47.

Do you think a full reinstall would help, as could it be a driver conflict from my driver experimentation doing this?

Thanks all! I will get Supreme Commander running at a decent rate, even if it kills me!

Hey gang (and Tacos, recently arrived!)

Problem solved, thought you'd liek to know.

It was that my 7900GTO wasn't in the slot correctly (yes you shouldn't be able to see the gold ends!).

It was in enough so that it knew it was a 7900GTO in there, would work without any obvious problems, but was only running at PCI-E x 1 speed, which translates to about half speed.

Now I'm gonna 3dmark the beastie to see what I got.

Big gracias for all the help, you lot rock!

lol man, at least I can't see the gold ends on my 6600gt (which, is pimpin' beyond belief, I get 500000fsps in tetris man )

Anyways, congradulations on fixing the problem, I should have thought about reseating the card myself.

ps, I would think that running it at 1/16 the bandwidth would cause more than just a 50% performance loss, but ohh well

Nice to see you around too, hopefully im gonna be more active this days (since my rma again )

btw, nice to know that you fixed your problem and I would like to see the difference of 1x with 16x

Well, PCI-E x1 gave me 5144 3dmark05 and PCI-E x16 10602 with 91.47 (93.71, 93.81 gave me slightly worse scores).

PCI-E x1 gave me 3207 3dmark05 and PCI-E x16 7282 with 91.47

It didn't quite work out to a sixteenth!

Gee I thought those were pretty good scores Tacos? It's about what the 7900GTX was getting in the VGA charts, and I haven't overclocked it!

(yet!)

How can we tell if the bandwidth is completely being used or not?

nah, not yet, corsair should have got it today at afternoon already. Should expect RMA at friday or even monday next week. I hope this one comes good.

And hey, nice to hear that you bought a new keyboard. That g15 impresses me but I dont want anything wired anymore. Im just tired of it.

BTW, pretty big difference from 1x to 16x

As you know, I buy what I like and what I feel is gonna be comfortable for me and look nice on my pc

I really love logitech and will stick with them foreva. Never considered microsoft, because I hate to spend money on them. I dont spend money on their OS, whats make taco think that im gonna spend money on their keyboards!

Max price for Vista should be $200 (ultimate)

$200 for a fancy interface, and new task switcher (I don't know about you but I don't spend hours looking lovingly at it, it flashes for half a second while I switch programs if I can't be bothered to use the taskbar) and new new DirectX version that isn't in any games yet!

I'm a bit cold about the whole thing. I guess I'll have to try the demo first.

And don't worry about hijacking the thread, this thread started life by hijacking another thread (yes that was me), and Tacos was there for that, too. Plus my 7900GTO is running at full speed, so the thread is done!

my friend's giving me his vista upgrade coupon, so I'm gonna try to get home premium for free, that'll be a nice upgrade for me, but I want to get a new hdd first (possibly a raptor X like yours) so I don't have to worry about transfering licenses when I finally decide to get a faster hdd

I spent $30 on the keyboard, give me a break, I got it on sale, otherwise I wouldn't be spending money at all

I have the money, it's all tucked away in one of my three major bank accounts, the question is what to upgrade, my 6600gt to a dx10 card (waiting for prices to drop and will picket a nice one when they do), a faster hdd, or to upgrade my cpu to a k10 based one. It's a hard decision, and I have to decide between gaming, faster overall applications, or faster boot times (both a cpu and hdd will acomplish, but I actually compared my cpu at half speed and at a 50% oc, and the boot times had minimal difference, meaning serious hdd bottleneck)

not quite, I have an am2 board, which makes it compatible with the am2+ cpus, just without the faster hypertransport. And as I said, I'm gonna wait on the prices, but I don't think the raptor will ever have a major drop as you said

well yeah, but you already own any 7600gt card and up, I would recommend to hold on on the videocard upgrade cuz there are many things coming up in april

oh yeah, I really wanted the GTO but was too expensive at that moment

taco, you always come with surprises so is not somethin new....

anyways, I would still wait for the 8600Ultra

Let me guess, you were going to buy an 8800GTX but you decided to buy the 6600 instead and spend the rest on tasty, tasty tacos?

Damnit, now I'm hungry.

that was a good one

Noooooo please! noooooooooooooooooooo!

If you mean AMi's R60, wasn't that pushed back to May / June? Also, there will be a few months before a real price war to benefit all us poor folk, so aim for <cough> August.

Anybody really think Hellgate, Stalker, Crysis is going to be a slideshow on anything 79xx and up, or 19xx and up? Run it at a sensible 1024x768 and i'm sure they'll be fine...

(he said without any conviction...)

I can't see myself needing a DX10 card 'til 2007.*

*I meant 2009, little joke. Anyway by then I'll have got bored by FPS and RTS and gone back to reading and movies. Or we'll all be irradiated by some godless sleeper cell.**

**Just kidding.***

***I hope.

hopefully, the r600 was supposed to come out when?

I got my keyboard today!!! Very comfertable to work with, my only complaint is that the space bar is very stiff, but that will change over time, very nice board imo, highly recommended

man, I don't know what's going on, but for some reason my new keyboard is messed up now, half the keys don't work. I'm forced to use my old one right now because of that

And I always thought ati's original date was like March for the release, then April, then finally May/June

Slim, what's an 8600? A cut down 8800? A 320MB 8800GTS is often less than a high end 7900, 1900..so how is this progress? Who's gonna buy it?