- Sep 26, 2007
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Just passing along my experience in case anyone else is suffering out there. I have been posting on this forum for the last two weeks trying to figure out why I was having such dismal 3dmark scores from my spanking new 8800gt. After spending 250 bills I was extremely disappointed to see I was getting 6400 on 3dmark06.
I tried everything I could think of and received great advice from a lot of people here which I greatly appreciated. I continued to have problems but remained persistent.
Finally about a week ago a fellow crosshair mobo user told me I must be running the 0904 bios. He went throught the same thing and eventually hit upon the beta 0905 bios. He reported he was now getting mid 11000 scores.
I upgraded my bios immediately and got a big jump to 9000 3d marks. But it still seemed to be lacking..
I went and visited the asus forums and scoured any info I could find. It seems many crosshair users experienced tons of problems associated with the 0904 bios, including dead systems. I started to not feel so bad. Some users reported being able to roll back to the 0804 bios, which seems to be the most stable. I was unable to do so, after attempting for 4 days about 25 different ways. I was, as one could imagine, ready to go on a killing spree starting with my 3 month old personal confuser.
Then something occurred to me. I remember someone mentioning in a post that after updating to the 0905 bios, their ht link got reset to 1x.
So I loaded up cpu-z and low and behold, my ht speed was the same as my fsb 209 mhz!
Went into bios and changed ht link to 5x and BAM!
3dmark06: 10868
If updating your bios, make sure to check all those little settings because otherwise you may have weeks of headaches. A lot of those settings could be set to non-optimal conditions.
CROSSHAIR USERS: Do NOT update your bios above 0804, unless you specifically have to for a phenom!!! You WILL have all kinds of problems, and it is nearly impossible to revert back to previous bios. This is a known issue that ASUS has not attempted to correct, and finding information on this is difficult.
All those who assisted me, thank you very much. Nice to have a community to count on during those hair pulling, want to throw my pc out a window moments!
Now I just have to start tweaking my video card heh heh !
I tried everything I could think of and received great advice from a lot of people here which I greatly appreciated. I continued to have problems but remained persistent.
Finally about a week ago a fellow crosshair mobo user told me I must be running the 0904 bios. He went throught the same thing and eventually hit upon the beta 0905 bios. He reported he was now getting mid 11000 scores.
I upgraded my bios immediately and got a big jump to 9000 3d marks. But it still seemed to be lacking..
I went and visited the asus forums and scoured any info I could find. It seems many crosshair users experienced tons of problems associated with the 0904 bios, including dead systems. I started to not feel so bad. Some users reported being able to roll back to the 0804 bios, which seems to be the most stable. I was unable to do so, after attempting for 4 days about 25 different ways. I was, as one could imagine, ready to go on a killing spree starting with my 3 month old personal confuser.
Then something occurred to me. I remember someone mentioning in a post that after updating to the 0905 bios, their ht link got reset to 1x.
So I loaded up cpu-z and low and behold, my ht speed was the same as my fsb 209 mhz!
Went into bios and changed ht link to 5x and BAM!
3dmark06: 10868
If updating your bios, make sure to check all those little settings because otherwise you may have weeks of headaches. A lot of those settings could be set to non-optimal conditions.
CROSSHAIR USERS: Do NOT update your bios above 0804, unless you specifically have to for a phenom!!! You WILL have all kinds of problems, and it is nearly impossible to revert back to previous bios. This is a known issue that ASUS has not attempted to correct, and finding information on this is difficult.
All those who assisted me, thank you very much. Nice to have a community to count on during those hair pulling, want to throw my pc out a window moments!
Now I just have to start tweaking my video card heh heh !
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