OK. I have a problem. I am a first time home system builder. The build seems to have gone OK (except for 1 thing - more of which later - i don't think this is the problem). I have fairly high spec BUT games (bioshock let alone crysis) are a slideshow on reasonable settings. My 3Dmark score is 1120 when comparable systems are 10 000 +.
Full system specs as follows:
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3
Intel Q6600
OCZ Technology 2x1GB PC2-6400 DDR2 Platinum
Inno3D 8800GT OC 512MB
Corsair 520 Watt, ATX, EPS12V, PS/2, Modular Power Supply
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit OEM DVD
Seagate Barracuda 7200.1 500GB 7200RPM S300 32MB
Gigabyte 3D II liquid cooling kit
standard dvd writer, monitor etc.
All non-3D applications seem to be working fine (e.g. web browser) so I am of the opinion there's a problem with my 8800GT that restricts its performance but doesn't fully kill it. The driver I have is up to date (forceware 169.25) and I have clean installed this with no impovement.
(Yes, the 8800GT does have an auxilliary 6-pin PCI power supply and this is plugged in. Looking at the GPU status in windows, the power state is D0 which I believe is normal and with no restrictions?)
Any suggestions would be appreciated - I am at my wits end
PS - the one complication that occured was that in the 1st day of switching the system on for the 1st time, the controller for the fan on the Gigabyte 3D II liquid cooling kit went puff - literally, with a smell of ozone etc. However I believe that the problem was there before this happened with bad perfomance in bioshock. I returned it and re-installed the cooling system, with nothing else untoward happening.
Full system specs as follows:
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3
Intel Q6600
OCZ Technology 2x1GB PC2-6400 DDR2 Platinum
Inno3D 8800GT OC 512MB
Corsair 520 Watt, ATX, EPS12V, PS/2, Modular Power Supply
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit OEM DVD
Seagate Barracuda 7200.1 500GB 7200RPM S300 32MB
Gigabyte 3D II liquid cooling kit
standard dvd writer, monitor etc.
All non-3D applications seem to be working fine (e.g. web browser) so I am of the opinion there's a problem with my 8800GT that restricts its performance but doesn't fully kill it. The driver I have is up to date (forceware 169.25) and I have clean installed this with no impovement.
(Yes, the 8800GT does have an auxilliary 6-pin PCI power supply and this is plugged in. Looking at the GPU status in windows, the power state is D0 which I believe is normal and with no restrictions?)
Any suggestions would be appreciated - I am at my wits end
PS - the one complication that occured was that in the 1st day of switching the system on for the 1st time, the controller for the fan on the Gigabyte 3D II liquid cooling kit went puff - literally, with a smell of ozone etc. However I believe that the problem was there before this happened with bad perfomance in bioshock. I returned it and re-installed the cooling system, with nothing else untoward happening.