Need new power supply

[tomirlik]

K, I'll do that today.

 

[allenn812]

Dont get a multirail psu, there largely over hyped. Because even if all the combined rails equal 30 which is what you need, you can only have the video card on one rail, so it will be getting alot less power than it should. Go with a large single rail psu.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817163111

 

[ownage]

allenn, the separate rail thing isn't much of an issue as it was before when psu manufacturers started it. Now you can see 18A 12V rails which are plenty for any video card. 18A converts to 216W of power on one rail. Now if you have 4 rails, that is an incredible amount of power. Yes its true that a single beefy 12V rail is nice to have, and I would prefer it, but some of the best psu's out there have high amperage separate 12V rails.

 

[tomirlik]

Ok, sorry for the hiatus (needed to find time to download, install, and use the program). I used 3dMark06 Professional, and these are my results:


Below is the result details of your submitted project.
Main Test Results

3DMark Score 6217 3DMarks

SM 2.0 Score 2735 Marks

SM 3.0 Score 2934 Marks

CPU Score 1467 Marks

Components Your System

Processor Intel Pentium D 3000 MHz

Physical / Logical CPUs 1 / 2

MultiCore 2 Processor Cores

HyperThreading N/A

Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS

Graphics Driver NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS

Co-operative adapters No

DirectX Version 9.0c

System Memory 2048 MB

Disk Space 286.17 GB

Motherboard Manufacturer Intel Corporation

Motherboard Model D945GTP

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP


Detailed Test Results


Graphics Tests
1 - Return to Proxycon 23.101 FPS

2 - Firefly Forest 22.483 FPS



CPU Tests
CPU1 - Red Valley 0.475 FPS

CPU2 - Red Valley 0.725 FPS



HDR Tests
1 - Canyon Flight (SM 3.0) 29.945 FPS

2 - Deep Freeze (SM 3.0) 28.741 FPS



Feature Tests
Fill Rate - Single Texturing 2563.29 MTexels/s

Fill Rate - Multi Texturing 11244.063 MTexels/s

Pixel Shader 251.675 FPS

Vertex Shader - Simple 187.635 MVertices/s

Vertex Shader - Complex 95.04 MVertices/s

Shader Particles (SM 3.0) 107.805 FPS

Perlin Noise (SM 3.0) 96.754 FPS



Batch Size Tests
8 Triangles 16.738 MTriangles/s

32 Triangles 57.505 MTriangles/s

128 Triangles 223.585 MTriangles/s

512 Triangles 236.741 MTriangles/s

2048 Triangles 232.877 MTriangles/s

32768 Triangles 230.969 MTriangles/s

 

[tomirlik]

Please respond. I am still pondering whether the gpu is working to its real potential.

 

[ownage]

weird, do you have another video card you can test with?

 

[NeXuS1]

Hmm its kinda low pent D bottlenecks the 8800 a little but not to that extreme, with my new setup I should get arround 8000-8500, the only difference will be that ill have core duo and you pent D and the difference in RAM of the GPU's. Yeah I dont know its to low.

Did you download the new drivers 158.19?? The 158.18 is for Vista so make sure you download the 158.19.

 

[tomirlik]

I know the P-D is outdated and older than the Core 2, but it should still work very well for gaming, atleast much better than this. I have a friend with a x1650 pro that gets the same fps as me, and someone with a 7950gt who gets like 250-300 fps in CSS with a similar system to mine.

I'll look into the driver issue, but I just wanted to show you performance I think is below what it should be.

Is this the driver:?
http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp_2k_158.19.html

 

[ownage]

yes, thats the driver

 

[tomirlik]

Ok, I'll download and restart tonight.