My card is not getting its recommended performance!
#1
Posted 24 May 2007 - 05:52 PM
#2
Posted 24 May 2007 - 06:53 PM
Toms hardware is also going to be running a much better system than yours to test with which is a big factor you wont get as good as they will on your system, benchmarks on sites dont give guarantees of performance just a rough outline more for comparison to other cards than actually showing a cards performance in itself.
#3
Posted 24 May 2007 - 07:04 PM
#4
Posted 24 May 2007 - 08:08 PM
#5
Posted 24 May 2007 - 08:18 PM
Pentium D will bottleneck that card, not to that extreme, you'd probably lose 5%ish in FPS.
Tomshardware tests in XP not vista, Nvidia's Vista drivers are still shaky.
The above will contribute to what you are noticing.
If your motherboard, CPU and memory didn't use electricity you wouldn't need to plug them into your PSU.
James
Edited by james_8970, 24 May 2007 - 08:19 PM.
#6
Posted 25 May 2007 - 10:32 AM
Edited by jackflash1991, 25 May 2007 - 10:35 AM.
#7
Posted 25 May 2007 - 10:58 AM
#8
Posted 25 May 2007 - 11:40 AM
I am looking at cheep power supplies and I am seeing "+12V1 and +12V2" what does this mean? If you add the two 12V's amps together then do I get the total of 30A
Generally you add all the +12v rails together to get the total when determining if the card will power your GPU. That usually works out fine, but to be sure you will want the total of +12v rails to exceed your GPU minimum requirement by say 10%.
Also, it never hurts to see if you can buy your PSU from someplace with a 30 day exchange policy that would allow you to trade up just in case. This is something I always do in regards to RAM, GPU, PSU and motherboards. No 30 day exchange = no money from me.
#9
Posted 25 May 2007 - 12:46 PM
Edited by jackflash1991, 25 May 2007 - 12:47 PM.
#10
Posted 25 May 2007 - 02:14 PM
Generally you add all the +12v rails together to get the total when determining if the card will power your GPU. That usually works out fine, but to be sure you will want the total of +12v rails to exceed your GPU minimum requirement by say 10%.
This should have read as follows:
Generally you add all the +12v rails together to get the total when determining if the PSU (not card) will power your GPU (video card). That usually works out fine, but to be sure you will want the total of +12v rails to exceed your GPU minimum requirement by say 10%.
#11
Posted 25 May 2007 - 11:59 PM
JAmes
#12
Posted 26 May 2007 - 04:58 PM
#13
Posted 26 May 2007 - 06:42 PM
Auto update just updates Windows, not your drivers.
http://www.nvidia.co...ers/drivers.asp
#14
Posted 27 May 2007 - 10:27 PM
OK I came home early and I am trying to add up everything and I think I need some help. I got the hard drive, CD/DVD drive, and fans totaling to 5V=2.42A and 12V=2.94A. I was looking up my Corsair memory (VS1GB667D2) and I could not find anything about power usage of it but it says on my motherboard at http://global.msi.co...r...70&cat3_no= and all it said it "Supports four unbuffered DIMM of 1.8 Volt DDRII SDRAM". That is the only power related requirements I could find. I could also not find anything about amps for the CPU except for watts so I guess I do not have to factor that in do I? Also my floppy drive does not have anything on it not even a company logo. So for the time being I have only calculated the hard drive, CD/DVD drive, and fans totaling to 5V=2.42A and 12V=2.94A.
#15
Posted 28 May 2007 - 06:22 AM
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