View Full Version : Extremely low performance! - Getting 3000 in 3dMark with an 8800 Ultra?!?
Trivia89
12-24-2007, 01:34 AM
Hi there!
I'm here to ask you 'bout a problem that is really really ruining my christmas holiday!
Two days ago my pc returned to me from the technical assistence: i'd not usually gave it to the assistance, but they said it was impossible to change my broken audio board without verifying it was really not working.
When my pc returned, i noted a drastical fall in the 3d performance!
The 3dmark score was about 3000 (when i used to score about 14000+) and there were a lot of artifacts in some 3d games (Half Life 2 was completely unplayable, Stalker instead was perfectly running, while a little "laggy").
I was really upset, then i noticed the technical guys updated my mobo bios to 804 (i have an Asus P5E3 Deluxe wi-fi) while i used to have the 601 version.
Could all of this depend by a bad bios?
My pc configuration is the following:
Asus P5E3 Deluxe/Wi-Fi AP@n
Intel QX9650@3150 (450*7)
Corsair Dominator DDR3@1800
Asus Geforce 8800 Ultra
Creative X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty champion edition
Thank you!
zanzabar
12-24-2007, 02:08 AM
ur pci-e is set to 1x
Trivia89
12-24-2007, 05:18 AM
everest shows pci-e set to 16x... is there any other way to check this?
Trivia89
12-24-2007, 08:45 AM
What Psu are you using?
Enermax Galaxy 1000w, the same i used two weeks ago scoring extremely well =(
Pain|Killer
12-24-2007, 08:47 AM
You can also verify it in GPU-Z.
Trivia89
12-24-2007, 08:48 AM
You can also verify it in GPU-Z.
Yeah i looked here and it's running at full 16x =(
fart_plume
12-24-2007, 08:49 AM
You check the serial numbers on the video card to see if you got ripped off? ie tech guy blows his video card and replaces it with a customers thinking they will never notice.......
Trivia89
12-24-2007, 08:53 AM
You check the serial numbers on the video card to see if you got ripped off? ie tech guy blows his video card and replaces it with a customers thinking they will never notice.......
Argh i don't know my vga serial... i really hope nothing like this happened ;)
fart_plume
12-24-2007, 09:12 AM
if you still have the box your card came in its on the outside
Exahertz
12-24-2007, 09:46 AM
You check the serial numbers on the video card to see if you got ripped off? ie tech guy blows his video card and replaces it with a customers thinking they will never notice.......
Whow! now thats a scary thought.
fart_plume
12-24-2007, 09:56 AM
When i had a computer shop I had a lot of customers come in with parts that had been stolen in this manner. It's a dirty low practice but it does happen, so its always a good idea to record your hardware serial numbers if you do have to send your machine to a shop.
aldave
12-26-2007, 11:17 PM
who are these "technical assistance" guys anyways?
phantom2080
12-27-2007, 03:27 AM
downgrade to the old bios and see if the issues your experiencing go away worth a go anyhow.
Also was the sound card onboard or a card, if so why did you just not take the sound card out and give them that to test.
Flarexi
12-27-2007, 03:43 AM
When i had a computer shop I had a lot of customers come in with parts that had been stolen in this manner. It's a dirty low practice but it does happen, so its always a good idea to record your hardware serial numbers if you do have to send your machine to a shop.
Im also working on a computer shop and I haven't even considered a thing like that :shocked: Scary stuff. Need to save my own serial numbers.
XS Janus
12-27-2007, 06:52 AM
At least you got xtreme something performance! :D
j/k
Trivia89
12-29-2007, 01:01 PM
At least you got xtreme something performance! :D
j/k
Yeah :D
Now i'm waiting for a new 8800 to come, let's hope this time i'll be lucky :D
dsturner
12-30-2007, 04:54 PM
Hmmm sounds a little fishy to me. My mom sent her system in to be repaired a few years back and it came back with a different VID CARD and it wasn't an upgrade either I know cause I built the system. You realy need to watch these people now! I had to drive for 4 hours to deal with these Idiots and there excuse...big misunderstanding...It was sent in for a virus and spyware clean and ended up getting a downgraded vid card because they didn't think it was working properly all for $80.oo It was a radeon 800xt and they replaced it with a 9800pro.The Police were invovlved when they wouldn't give my card back ...By the way she is still running that 800xt.
Be Carefull