Well i had no idea where to post this, and i really wanted some opinions and whatever i can get out of anyone to help me figure this problem out. I normally never post anything but this has driven me to the point where i thought it wouldn't hurt to try on here and see what any of you have to say. I recently bought a new GPU for my old system. Its around 3 years old, i built this rig back in September of 2005. Oh and i bought a XFX Geforce 9800GTX which has led me to be frustrated into hell. My specs as follows:
AMD Athlon 64-bit 3500+ 2.2GHZ venice core
MSI k8N Neo4/Sli nforce 4 sli chipset
Corsair Pro series DDR-3200 2Gigs
PSU- 550watt Ultra Infinity( Thats what i had in it and had problems, switched to a Cooler Master Real Power Pro series 1,000 watt and the problems varied from game to game)
EVGA 6600GT 128mb's - that was my old card
Seagate 120gig's 7200rpm
Win XP 32-bit(Been running this PC for almost 3 years without a format just yet)
GPU Idles at around 60 and gets as high as 66-70c CPU temp is around 44c and system temp around 42c
Well when i first got the card, it seemed as if it was running fine till i ran World Of Warcraft, NFS:Most wanted, and Kane's wrath. I had problems in the games, i either got a frozen screen and had to ctrl+alt+delete and end program, or i had to reboot. If i lowered the settings it would kind of work but i would still glitch or lag of some sort and possibly freeze. Doesn't seem right with the amount of power this card has. As well before i go any further, for some crazy reason i like installing nvidia.com's latest drivers, but for some reason when i install whether it be the newest, older, or just around between them kind of new drivers my PC loads XP and then hangs. I never get to the welcome screen. But with the software drivers that came with the XFX cd which are drivers 174.40 the card works fine with those. Is that strange? I ran Driver cleaner, still didn't work. So i said screw it i went and got the cooler master PSU. My World of warcraft is fixed and works great, a few hiccups here and there but not enough to bother me, but then kanes wrath n NFS most wanted still nothing. For some reason when i have anti-lansing on at 8x preferably kane's wrath, the game freezes. I actually got it to freeze and give me a blue screen of death. It said the device wasn't able to draw a operation, or that i needed to update my drivers. So i ended up trying again different drivers, and still nothing so i reinstalled the 174.40 and now Kane's wrath works(mind you before i did the driver testing again i had uninstalled and reinstalled kanes wrath and that did not work either) Oh and Tiberium wars though works perfectly with 8x anti-lansing on, this is when kane's wrath didn't work but of course now it works. I have yet to try NFS: Most wanted again. But i noticed since the beginning that my CnC Generals Zero hour glitches and lags hardcore as well to the point where it freeze's, never did that with old GPU. Have yet to know whats wrong with that game, considering that game has nothing to do with anti-lansing on, i might have to reinstall that game as well maybe it will fix it, not 2 sure. I still have around two weeks before my deadline to getting a refund for this card from newegg.com. Let me just say one last thing my system ran perfect with my Geforce 6600GT, my system was a bit slow before, but definitely not while playing games. Any idea's on what i should do? Something, a thought? idea?
Thanks greatly appreciate anyones help on this XD
AMD Athlon 64-bit 3500+ 2.2GHZ venice core
MSI k8N Neo4/Sli nforce 4 sli chipset
Corsair Pro series DDR-3200 2Gigs
PSU- 550watt Ultra Infinity( Thats what i had in it and had problems, switched to a Cooler Master Real Power Pro series 1,000 watt and the problems varied from game to game)
EVGA 6600GT 128mb's - that was my old card
Seagate 120gig's 7200rpm
Win XP 32-bit(Been running this PC for almost 3 years without a format just yet)
GPU Idles at around 60 and gets as high as 66-70c CPU temp is around 44c and system temp around 42c
Well when i first got the card, it seemed as if it was running fine till i ran World Of Warcraft, NFS:Most wanted, and Kane's wrath. I had problems in the games, i either got a frozen screen and had to ctrl+alt+delete and end program, or i had to reboot. If i lowered the settings it would kind of work but i would still glitch or lag of some sort and possibly freeze. Doesn't seem right with the amount of power this card has. As well before i go any further, for some crazy reason i like installing nvidia.com's latest drivers, but for some reason when i install whether it be the newest, older, or just around between them kind of new drivers my PC loads XP and then hangs. I never get to the welcome screen. But with the software drivers that came with the XFX cd which are drivers 174.40 the card works fine with those. Is that strange? I ran Driver cleaner, still didn't work. So i said screw it i went and got the cooler master PSU. My World of warcraft is fixed and works great, a few hiccups here and there but not enough to bother me, but then kanes wrath n NFS most wanted still nothing. For some reason when i have anti-lansing on at 8x preferably kane's wrath, the game freezes. I actually got it to freeze and give me a blue screen of death. It said the device wasn't able to draw a operation, or that i needed to update my drivers. So i ended up trying again different drivers, and still nothing so i reinstalled the 174.40 and now Kane's wrath works(mind you before i did the driver testing again i had uninstalled and reinstalled kanes wrath and that did not work either) Oh and Tiberium wars though works perfectly with 8x anti-lansing on, this is when kane's wrath didn't work but of course now it works. I have yet to try NFS: Most wanted again. But i noticed since the beginning that my CnC Generals Zero hour glitches and lags hardcore as well to the point where it freeze's, never did that with old GPU. Have yet to know whats wrong with that game, considering that game has nothing to do with anti-lansing on, i might have to reinstall that game as well maybe it will fix it, not 2 sure. I still have around two weeks before my deadline to getting a refund for this card from newegg.com. Let me just say one last thing my system ran perfect with my Geforce 6600GT, my system was a bit slow before, but definitely not while playing games. Any idea's on what i should do? Something, a thought? idea?
Thanks greatly appreciate anyones help on this XD