eddiejclayton Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 Hey guys, I'm sure this is a n00b question but I've been searching for several days before I decided to post this. I have the following setup: Intel DP35DP E2160 (dual 1.8GHz) CPU 4x 2GB RAM 8800GTX vid card Highpoint RocketRAID 2300 (4x 80GB HDD's in RAID10) 2x 500GB HDD's in RAID 1 (onboard SATA) Kalyway 10.5.1 NVInstallerV.33 (selected 768MB option) My questions is this. I'm receiving very poor graphical performance whether in games or using Aperture/Photoshop CS3. Here's my XBench Result. > http://db.xbench.com/merge.xhtml?doc2=275716 I've tried everything I can thing of, any suggestions that you guys have I'd greatly appreciate it! Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted March 10, 2008 Share Posted March 10, 2008 are you using the First DVI port, i.e. the one near the motherboard ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiejclayton Posted March 10, 2008 Author Share Posted March 10, 2008 are you using the First DVI port, i.e. the one near the motherboard ? Hello there! Yes I am. I've tried it in both DVI ports and it definitely works better in DVI port 1 but it seems like there's still something wrong. My 7900GS (I have spares!) performs exactly the same as the 8800GTX does and that just isn't right. I've used the NVInstallerV.33 as well as Punk92V2 to install the vid card. Everything else works so well, I'd be in great shape if I could get this video issue resolved. I'm really at a loss here and can't think of anything else to try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 when you say 7900GS performs better, you mean the whole OS performs better or just xbench says so ? if so, don't trust xbench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddiejclayton Posted March 11, 2008 Author Share Posted March 11, 2008 when you say 7900GS performs better, you mean the whole OS performs better or just xbench says so ? if so, don't trust xbench. No I mean performance is identical (in the OS, Games, and applications). I would think that things would be smoother overall with the GTX no? Overall performance for the sytem is rather good, I get very slight stuttering sometimes when mousing over the dock. If I go to play a game (Frets On Fire, Neverwinter Nights, etc..) I see relatively low performance and a little bit of stuttering. Do I keep on looking for a solution or just leave well enough alone? I'm considering upgrading to a quad core CPU (Q6600), maybe that would smooth things out? If you guys can think of anything else for me to check or try I'll give it a go. It just seems like something isn't quite right. Yeah, I'm not putting too much stock in xbench. Thanks for the help, if you can think of anything else for me to checkout I'd appreciate it! Thanks again! eddie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlad1966 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 Here's my current xBench w/a 7300GT vid card - all other specs are same as my sig: I hope the Radeon 3870 runs better than the 8800 series - doesn't make sense that your 8800GTX should be 1/2 as slow as my 7300GT. 7300GT.tiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 These benchmarks programs are inadequate for evaluating the performance of these new video cards. (Think of a single threaded process that runs the same on a single core CPU and a quad core CPU, why? That process/app isn't designed to take advantage of all the cores.) http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?s=&...st&p=660913 Xbench, Openmark showed my card was about the same as a NVidia 7X00 level card, but testing with SantaDuck benchmarking and UT2004 showed how fast it really was, no comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyclonefr Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 +1. About 3870, I guess 8800 GTX crushes 3870 since 8800 GT actually beat it in every game I tried on OSX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlad1966 Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 +1. About 3870, I guess 8800 GTX crushes 3870 since 8800 GT actually beat it in every game I tried on OSX True, the 3870 isn't the fastest card out there, but I don't want to risk buying another 8800 series - my card has occasional scrambled graphics & nothing seems to help. Sapphire has a nice 3870 that is heatpiped with no fan & runs much cooler than the reference designs with fans. Plus I have a preference for ATI's image quality - to me, ATI cards have a sharper/richer look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westwaerts Posted March 11, 2008 Share Posted March 11, 2008 look for "gioFX open mark", an opengl tester, that counts rendered frames per second. even detects the open gl engine loaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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