Originally posted by: Silverturtle
Well, I did some more temp. readings and got the card up to 92 degrees C during CS:S and it idles around 63 degrees.
I haven't gotten that massive artifacting lately, but the moderate artifacting is almost always present now. I ran Oblivion, and the performance didn't seem all that great.
On my 20 inch monitor I got a about 20-25 fps average indoors, about 35 max, and 5 minimum. This is with 4XAA and 16XAF. I haven't tried it outdoors yet, but from what I gather this seems like outdoor performance, which it usually much worse.
In HL2: EP1 the framerate was about 40 average, but dipped into the teens sometimes.
On CS_Compound, I got around 70fps average, but again it dipped into the 20's and 30's occasionally, and this is with no HDR. People said they were consistantly getting 100+ on this map, no matter what the settings, except 16XAA.
I am wondering whether the position of the tower is causing problems. I have it sitting on a pedastal that is holding up the desk. It is open in the front, closed in the back, and partially open on the sides. Do you think this is less than ideal, or would it not make much of a difference?
I will try that suggestion wizboy, but what exactly does 'write combining' do?
Originally posted by: Silverturtle
OK, the computer store checked out the computer and they said it was fine. However, I am still having a few performance issues.
On the CS Source stress test I am getting about 100fps average at 1680*1020 4XAA 16AF. I saw reports of people with a lesser processor and two 7800GTX's getting over 140fps at these settings, and I thought a 7950GX2 was supposed to be better than two 7900GT's or 7800GTX's.
And also, while playing the game, my framerate on Dust is usually around 50-60, but dipps into the 20's every few minutes or so and stays there until in goes back up to about 50. Remember this is with HDR though.
When I play with the bots, the whole game is very, very jittery. The fps reader (FRAPS) says it is like 60, but it feels like 15 at best.
Overall, the GPU performance is a fair bit lower than my X1900XT, which is not normal. But, the thing that confuses me the most it that the 3D Mark 06 score is normal.
Some of the same issues I reported earlier are still present. The CPU performance seems pretty slow. It gets noticably sluggish when multiple windows are open, and I was expecting butter smooth. Games also freeze up fairly often.
I am almost certain the issues on the display are the monitor's doing, but why does it only show up when I click certain things, and goes away when and click the mouse only to come back again? How does the monitor know what I am doing. It does not seem related to colors either.
So, guys will you please help me? The new system isn't the leap I was expecting from my old rig. Thanks in advance.