Hi all I am new to the forum. Let me begin with the specs of this machinne
CPU= Intel 9300 liquid cooled by Thermaltake big water 760 i
Mob= Asus striker 2 extreme
RAM= 4 gb of Asus 1333
GPU= 2 x XFX 9800 GX2 running on quad SLI
Sound= XFI fatality
OP system Vista 32 bit
2 x Raptor 10000 rpm in raid 0
Monitor= Samsung 305 t 30 inch
I am heavily disapointed by the performance of this machine. It runs very slow . In Crysis I got 25-30 fps max and sometimes the game froze . I need to point out that the machine is overclocked to 3 ghz . Even in World of Warcraft the fps drops sometimes to 30 in 2600 x 1600 with 8aa in my previous machine with a single card never droped below 60 . Crysis drops to 0 on 1900 x 1200 and I can hear my hard drives clunking all the time in every game . The machine won't boot if it has a CD in the drive . Games take ages to load as well and I install something new it takes ages as well .I tried the latest drivers from NVIDIA and every possible setting on the NVIDIA panel...Someone suggested an upgrade to 9770 skulltrail and overclock would that do any good . Please someone help me. Thank you.
Since you're running a 32bit OS how much RAM does Vista see for usage?
With 2GB going to your GPUs you should really consider upgrading to a 64bit OS. With 1GB RAM for Vista and 1GB RAM for games it's no wonder your disks are clunking all the time.
Reorder the Boot Drive Priority (or don't BOOT with a CD in the drive) in BIOS. With Vista 32bit skulltrail won't help improve performance.
Message edited by Andrius on 05-11-2008 at 10:49:26 PM
Skultrail has lot of issues Stick to your mobo
Did you test your machine with Prime 95 ??
Try with one 9800GX2
SLI still not mature
What is your Ram setup 2X2Gig or 4X1Gig
I hope 2X4 Gig
Mobos with nforce chipsets has some isues
What are your temps ??
Sounds like possible power supply issue. You say it's slow, and your having problems, tried drivers, etc. I think as loaded as you are with hardware, that's probably what it is, especially since you didn't mention what power supply you have. If you are using the power supply that came with your case. Those are not the best supplies. I would check that first.
Message edited by ohiou_grad_06 on 05-11-2008 at 10:56:41 PM
Test the system with just one 9800 GX2 and compare the performance. Use less FSAA including testing without any.
When testing Crysis run the game in a window instead of full screen.
Also test Crysis in 1680x1050.
