Hey guys,
A quick history:
About a year ago, I experienced problems with a dual monitor setup and eventually determined that the problem was in the graphics card. I purchased a new one (GTX285) and installed. It didn't fix the problem (that turned out to be the screen itself). Luckily, the new card seemed to be faulty. There was no noticeable performance increase and my 3d mark score only increased by about 300. I phoned Zotec and sent the card back.
Fast forward to now, my old graphics card (which returned to living in my computer once i determined that it wasn't to blame for the dual monitor issues) finally died. Artefacts all over the screen, constant crashes, etc. So i bought a new one again (this time a GTX 470).
Now, i'm starting to think that the GTX285 wasn't broken the last time around, because the new GTX470 isn't performing as i would expect either. I know you can't really expect a certain score to appear on any system because of all the variables, but Guru3d said here: GTX 470
that i could expect a GPU score of around14,000.
I got 9,000.
I'm also getting very little performance difference in games, i would expect at least some difference between 3 generations of card.
I would blame this on the slow components in my system, but this doesn't seem to make sense. The only slow bit I really have is my old CPU, and i doubt it's SO slow that it would knock 35% of a GPU-centric performance test.
So now i need your help, oh fair denizens of Tom's Hardware forum. What is the problem here? I'm ok with computers, but this is beyond me. The only thing I can think would be power requirements. Could this reduce performance?
As always, I will be extremely grateful for any help you can give.
Cheers,
Tom
Specs:
Core Duo E6700
MSI Motherboard (model name escapes me right now)
4GB DDR2 PC8200
Inno3d GTX470
X-fi Xtrememusic
Crucial 450W PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate Edition
Some more benchmarks (compared with Guru3d's results run at the same settings):
Dirt 2 - Me: 32.2 - Guru3d: 64
Just Cause 2 - Me: 34 - Guru3d: 60
Stone Giant Demo - Me: 30 - Guru3d: 45
A quick history:
About a year ago, I experienced problems with a dual monitor setup and eventually determined that the problem was in the graphics card. I purchased a new one (GTX285) and installed. It didn't fix the problem (that turned out to be the screen itself). Luckily, the new card seemed to be faulty. There was no noticeable performance increase and my 3d mark score only increased by about 300. I phoned Zotec and sent the card back.
Fast forward to now, my old graphics card (which returned to living in my computer once i determined that it wasn't to blame for the dual monitor issues) finally died. Artefacts all over the screen, constant crashes, etc. So i bought a new one again (this time a GTX 470).
Now, i'm starting to think that the GTX285 wasn't broken the last time around, because the new GTX470 isn't performing as i would expect either. I know you can't really expect a certain score to appear on any system because of all the variables, but Guru3d said here: GTX 470
that i could expect a GPU score of around14,000.
I got 9,000.
I'm also getting very little performance difference in games, i would expect at least some difference between 3 generations of card.
I would blame this on the slow components in my system, but this doesn't seem to make sense. The only slow bit I really have is my old CPU, and i doubt it's SO slow that it would knock 35% of a GPU-centric performance test.
So now i need your help, oh fair denizens of Tom's Hardware forum. What is the problem here? I'm ok with computers, but this is beyond me. The only thing I can think would be power requirements. Could this reduce performance?
As always, I will be extremely grateful for any help you can give.
Cheers,
Tom
Specs:
Core Duo E6700
MSI Motherboard (model name escapes me right now)
4GB DDR2 PC8200
Inno3d GTX470
X-fi Xtrememusic
Crucial 450W PSU
Windows 7 Ultimate Edition
Some more benchmarks (compared with Guru3d's results run at the same settings):
Dirt 2 - Me: 32.2 - Guru3d: 64
Just Cause 2 - Me: 34 - Guru3d: 60
Stone Giant Demo - Me: 30 - Guru3d: 45
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