Serious 9600GT Problems

Hi

This is my new build which is having some serious issues running any 3d.

Core2 Quad 9450 2.66GHz
Vista (32) SP1
4GB ocz Platinum (2x2Gb) DDR3 1066MHz
Gigabyte GA-EP35C-DS3R rev2.1
Gigabyte 9600GT 512Mb PCI-e 2.0
500w ocz stealthxstream
2 x seagate barracuda 160Gb - Raid 0
1TB Western Digital

Should be fairly quick but im only getting a horrible 1100 score on 3d mark 06
CPU score was 3995

This system should definatly be 12k+

What could be wrong? Faulty GPU? Its running at 53deg idle.

All help greatly appreciated

Thanks

Keep in mind the settings for 3dmark, higher resolution or any other aa settings will severely cripple the score. The "common" benchmarks are based on default settings.

Also yes, make sure you get the most recent drivers for your motherboard and video card.

If none of those help, try another benchmark, like 3dmark 05 or 03 see if you get the same results.

Usually grahpics have issues other then just slow performance if there is somethign wrong with the card itself. Like display corruption or system instability while playing games.

did you plug a power cable into the 9600gt?

Under "Advanced Bios Features"
C1E = Disable
EIST = Disable
INIT Display First=PEG

Option:
Send video card back (poor display performance) defective.

Reorder something like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814134037