Akuma2000
02-05-2009, 03:04 AM
Hi All,
It's been 2 years and I've finally updated my rig with the latest hardware:
ASUS Rampage Extreme II (latest BIOS version)
Intel i7 965 Extreme
2x MSI N295GTX in SLI
6x 2GB Corsair 1866
Running on Vista x64
Everything runs with stock speed and stock cooling for now.
(will put watercooling on it and overclock a.s.a.p. when I get the waterblocks)
After installing Vista x64, it was hell installing the two MSI 295GTX cards!
The second card wouldn't start and 3D devices were unrecognized according to the device manager.
Also the cards made a squeeking noise on load. So I was really scared I had to sent the cards RMA.
Spent ours to find a solution for this problem and it was solved when I downloaded and installed the 185.20 drivers from Guru3D!
I've ran 3DMARK06 and 3DMARK Vantage with everything on stock settings.
Without PPU and Physx off.
3DMARK06: around 19 or 20K
3DMARK Vantage: 25.881 (GPU: 28.466 / CPU: 20.338)
These scores are quite dissapointing.
I had almost the same score with my old setup (Q6600@3.8, 2x8800Ultra,4GB).
So now I'm wondering if these scores are normal or below average for my setup.
(please mind, all speed @ stock)
Should I worry and sent the cards RMA or are these results normal and should I overclock a.s.a.p.? :D
Thanks for reading.
It's been 2 years and I've finally updated my rig with the latest hardware:
ASUS Rampage Extreme II (latest BIOS version)
Intel i7 965 Extreme
2x MSI N295GTX in SLI
6x 2GB Corsair 1866
Running on Vista x64
Everything runs with stock speed and stock cooling for now.
(will put watercooling on it and overclock a.s.a.p. when I get the waterblocks)
After installing Vista x64, it was hell installing the two MSI 295GTX cards!
The second card wouldn't start and 3D devices were unrecognized according to the device manager.
Also the cards made a squeeking noise on load. So I was really scared I had to sent the cards RMA.
Spent ours to find a solution for this problem and it was solved when I downloaded and installed the 185.20 drivers from Guru3D!
I've ran 3DMARK06 and 3DMARK Vantage with everything on stock settings.
Without PPU and Physx off.
3DMARK06: around 19 or 20K
3DMARK Vantage: 25.881 (GPU: 28.466 / CPU: 20.338)
These scores are quite dissapointing.
I had almost the same score with my old setup (Q6600@3.8, 2x8800Ultra,4GB).
So now I'm wondering if these scores are normal or below average for my setup.
(please mind, all speed @ stock)
Should I worry and sent the cards RMA or are these results normal and should I overclock a.s.a.p.? :D
Thanks for reading.