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My first rig and i need advice.

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I'm installing Rivaturner, adjusting the Nvidia setting thing to performance. My temps seem to stay pretty consistent. Realtemp recorded around 47 degrees max. Am I missing some settings on Vista to turn off?? I know there is the Indexing thing on the hard drive. But other then that???
 
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I found one issue. I was scaling the image. But it didn't boot the score that much. Put me right under 15k at 14942. SM 2.0 score = 5921 , SM 3.0 = 7002, CPU = 4194 . Seems the SM 2 & 3 scores are where i'm suffering?
 
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in vista, theres A LOT of stuff to turn off. there is actually a sticky in the forums here somewhere on what can be disabled. Also, in the device manager, enable the enhanced drive performance thing.. I believe it requires indexing..
 
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BTW for comparison.. I get over 12,500 in 3DMARK06 on the system in my specs.. there seams to be something horribly wrong here. lol
 
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I'm stumped. Even w/ vista unoptimized you should get well over 15k I would think. I get almost 15k w/ a dual and gts (oc'd of course, but there's no way even an oc'd dual and gts should come anywhere close to matching a stock quad and 280 on stock in 06). Your 06 settings are at default I would assume right? Latest patches and everything? Can you maybe try benching some games also?
 
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Benchmark Scores 3DMark Vantage= p10361, 3DMark 06 = 15193
In 3Dmark i use the downloaded free version. I'm not paying for that thing >.>. SO it runs off of basically the generic stuff I guess?

It runs games just fine. I play Crysis Warhead on "Gamer" with 4x anti aliasing with an average of 30+ FPS in Company of heroes was high too. I'm not really sure what's goin on. Comparing the online 3Dmark 06 scores.. The SM 2 and 3 scores were where I suffered, I out performed the CPu score of their like, 'premo rig" or whatever it is. I got the latest drivers I downloaded from you guys...
 

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in vista, theres A LOT of stuff to turn off. there is actually a sticky in the forums here somewhere on what can be disabled. Also, in the device manager, enable the enhanced drive performance thing.. I believe it requires indexing..

There are alot of things that are able to turn off. but non of them will really effect my performance to the point of giving me back a few hundred points in 3Dmark so i'm not going to bother.. And indexing off is the way to go btw. =P.
 
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In 3Dmark i use the downloaded free version. I'm not paying for that thing >.>. SO it runs off of basically the generic stuff I guess?

It runs games just fine. I play Crysis Warhead on "Gamer" with 4x anti aliasing with an average of 30+ FPS in Company of heroes was high too. I'm not really sure what's goin on. Comparing the online 3Dmark 06 scores.. The SM 2 and 3 scores were where I suffered, I out performed the CPu score of their like, 'premo rig" or whatever it is. I got the latest drivers I downloaded from you guys...

Well as long as it plays games fine that's the important thing. Honestly though, w/ that card I'm thinking you should be able to play enthusiast at comfortable frames. I play Crysis on very high, although it loses frames in some spots, it does most of it fine. That's at 1680x1050 though, on 1920x1200 it wouldn't do as well. Warhead supposedly being further optimized I'm expecting to play on enthusiast all the way through. You have a top o the line video card though, I wouldn't settle for anything less than completely maxed settings.
 

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Hmm.. Well. I ran Crysis again. No AA and Enthusiast Settings. Got around 30 FPS average. Would the version of Direct X i'm using have a noticable impact??
 
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Probably.. lol and the HDD performance mode in vista shows a huge difference.. download HD Tach and try it with and without it.. :p
 

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I'm not even sure how ot revert to DX9?
 

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So Farlex, since you recommended it, fill me in on this Mobo. I've been reading a little bit of the users manual trying to familiarize myself. and looking through all the options on that little EPU-6 thing.
 
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So Farlex, since you recommended it, fill me in on this Mobo. I've been reading a little bit of the users manual trying to familiarize myself. and looking through all the options on that little EPU-6 thing.

I don't know the intricacies of the board, only that it has received good reviews and most seem to like it. There are many on this forum who have that board though, and can help w/ the options, I'm afraid I'm not myself overly familiar w/ oc'ing an asus. May be worth starting another thread for.
 
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keep DX10 for vista. just update it.. DXsetup.exe from microsoft's website..
 

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I ran 3Dmark after a fresh startup and i broke 1500.. Not really saying alot but I am able to run games like Crysis on max (no anti-alias ect) and get consistant 30FPS. I haven't uploaded pic yet. Sorry about that. gonna do it tonight.
 
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Still seams odd. I run 1680x1050 all medium with aa and af, and get in the 40 to 50 consistant range..
 

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Still seams odd. I run 1680x1050 all medium with aa and af, and get in the 40 to 50 consistant range..

I get the same. I"m running on ultra high and getting 30. And on 'gamer' on crysis warhead i'm getting 60+ with all.
 

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Just a note. The inside of the case doesn't look that bad. I rerouted some of the cables and got the mess out of the bottom. The photo corrupted and i'm too lazy to open it back up.
 
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