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General => Off-Topic => Topic started by: JamminR on December 04, 2009, 03:36:32 PM

Title: New Video card
Post by: JamminR on December 04, 2009, 03:36:32 PM

I got an early Christmas present today.
BFG 260 GTX OCX maxcore 55

I'm about to try installing it and if all goes well, will be back in a few hours.
If something goes wrong, I may end up having to use my olllld laptop for net access.

Title: Re: New Video card
Post by: Megiddo on December 04, 2009, 04:20:57 PM

What could possibly go wrong with installing new hardware? :P

Good luck and see you soon with the new screamin' GPU

Title: Re: New Video card
Post by: JamminR on December 04, 2009, 05:58:05 PM

I'm happy so far.
Results are good. I've not closed the case yet but I like what I'm seeing.

Using 3dmark06 (free) default settings (because the free one won't let you change anything)
Old GPU config
SLI - 2x BFG Geforce 7800 GT OC - = 63xx 3dmarks (Didn't write it down)
New GPU config
1x BFG GTX 260 OCX maxcore 55 - 10374

Title: Re: New Video card
Post by: JamminR on December 04, 2009, 06:26:23 PM

Update
After looking at my 3dmark06 score, remembering seeing higher scores in reviews/roundups on the web, I started doing some hardware investigating. Using the system info tool in the NVidia control panel, I found that I was only using 8 lanes of my PCI Express bus.

Wait...Wut? PCI-E should be using 16 when running a single card.

/me thinks about it a few minutes...
DOH.
I put the card in one of the two slots meant for SLI, which, only allows 8 lanes. (It's not a PCI-E v2 board)
Going to go put the card in between the two 8x slots and will retest.

Will repost.

Title: Re: New Video card
Post by: JamminR on December 04, 2009, 08:41:32 PM

Oddly enough, very little improvement. 10642
I can only presume the age of my motherboard is limiting the video card at least in relation to 3dmark06
board - nforce 4
cpu - Amd Opteron 185 (2x 1mb @ 2.61ghz) (Socket 939)
RAM - 2 x 1gb DDR 3200 2-3-2-5 - dual channel mode

Either way, I like it.
Got a good deal on it. BFG has lifetime warranty, and it will carry me onto the next motherboard/cpu upgrade I get within the next year or two.

Title: Re: New Video card
Post by: MrPresident on December 08, 2009, 10:40:03 AM

I bought a 285 GTX right before deploying and now it doesn't matter bcause as SOON as I get back Im building a new rig from the bottom to the top. A gift to myself for living a year out here in the middle of nowhere. (and making lots of money... >.<)

I'd send it to you if I could.. alas I cannot... =(