Video Card Benchmarking
Discussion
Hi All,
Some of you may read about my previous grief with my motherboard/video card.... well i have it working on the board now but its running in a slot that has been marked as a PCI-E x 1 slot!! The dodgy slot is PCI-E x 16...
I've been playing quake 4, GTL this weekend with no ill effects so far. I'm a little surprised and confused its working this well given its 'supposed' to be a x1 slot. I have noticed in GTL the frame rate seems to stay steady at 30fps - which in theory would be choppy, but to be honest i cant feel/see any sluggishness that would accompany a 30fps reading... I have just played quake 4 online and to be honest the action was way too fast... The GTL reading has me worried a bit as i would expect to see a higher reading and think maybe the port is topping out and it physically just cant shift any more data ?
I'm going to benchmark my video card using 3dmark03 and see how it does - i really just want to know if the card is running at full tilt or is it being held back by the slot. If so i'll need a new board, but it its running fine (at x16 speed) then all is well although i would be confused as to why the x1 slot is running at x16.....
Does anyone have any 3dmark results for a 7800gt or can give me any idea of what sort of performance ball-park i should be expecting for this card running at full (normal) speed !?
Thanks in advance lads
Steve
EDIT: I found this - might be useful for anyone else benchmarking their nvidia cards : www.pcstats.com/ArtVNL.cfm?articleid=1901&page=4
>> Edited by lockstock2sb on Sunday 22 January 16:49
Some of you may read about my previous grief with my motherboard/video card.... well i have it working on the board now but its running in a slot that has been marked as a PCI-E x 1 slot!! The dodgy slot is PCI-E x 16...
I've been playing quake 4, GTL this weekend with no ill effects so far. I'm a little surprised and confused its working this well given its 'supposed' to be a x1 slot. I have noticed in GTL the frame rate seems to stay steady at 30fps - which in theory would be choppy, but to be honest i cant feel/see any sluggishness that would accompany a 30fps reading... I have just played quake 4 online and to be honest the action was way too fast... The GTL reading has me worried a bit as i would expect to see a higher reading and think maybe the port is topping out and it physically just cant shift any more data ?
I'm going to benchmark my video card using 3dmark03 and see how it does - i really just want to know if the card is running at full tilt or is it being held back by the slot. If so i'll need a new board, but it its running fine (at x16 speed) then all is well although i would be confused as to why the x1 slot is running at x16.....
Does anyone have any 3dmark results for a 7800gt or can give me any idea of what sort of performance ball-park i should be expecting for this card running at full (normal) speed !?
Thanks in advance lads
Steve
EDIT: I found this - might be useful for anyone else benchmarking their nvidia cards : www.pcstats.com/ArtVNL.cfm?articleid=1901&page=4
>> Edited by lockstock2sb on Sunday 22 January 16:49
I don't have the older 3DMark software, but my 7800GT gives 7303 3dMarks in 2005 and 4018 3dMarks in 2006. My 7800GT is factory overclocked to 450/1050MHz though and it runs on a dual core X2 3800 with 2GB, which helps things nicely.
Your experience proves what I have thought for a fair time, that 16 channel PCI-E is nowhere near saturated.
Mike
Your experience proves what I have thought for a fair time, that 16 channel PCI-E is nowhere near saturated.
Mike
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