New Graphics Card low quality

[laserluke]

hello---

i recently purchased a 512mb PNY 8800GTS (g92) graphics card and installed it into my compaq sr2050nx. Here are some specs:

Pentium D 320 2.8ghz (2 cores)
2 GB RAM 800 mhz
250 GB Hard Drive (7200rpm)
500w Antec Basiq PSU

So anyway i put in the card and loaded up 3dmark 06. I was hoping to see a giant increase over my old x1950GT, however I only scored about 5500 3dmarks (no AA/AF)! This is very low, concerning all the very high benchmarks i have seen for this card. I was extremely dissapointed, as i was hoping to blow away all my games... btw yes I updated my graphics driver to latest beta version...

One possible reason is the cpu bottlenecking the card... but i dont think it should by this much!

I also updated my BIOS, however could not find a chipset download for this comp.

By searching google and other forums, i see others have the same prob, but their solutions don't work for me!

Any ideas?

Thanks guys for your help!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cabbs]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was your CPU. NetBurst isn't that great.

 

[laserluke]

thats what i thought too...

any other ideas?

 

[Shantei]

Yeah, big ass bottleneck on that cpu there. Other than that, drivers.

 

[laserluke]

drivers are up to date

is it fairly hard to upgrade processors? i have about a high experience working with computers...
ive been checkin out that hot 45nm e8400, i might buy that to replace this piece of crap pentium d

 

[Atomic Rooster]

I would have to agree that your Pentium D is holding back the 8800GTS.

The E8400 would do the trick as long as your motherboard supports it.

 

[laserluke]

never mind.... my mobo doesnt support core 2 duos.... piece of garbage

 

[_-..zKiLLA..-_]

update your board and throw that PD in there and then later on get a E8400

 

[worshipme]

Don't worry, 3DMark is flawed because of it's CPU scores. General gaming won't take much of a hit with a Pentium D even though Netburst was awful.

 

[laserluke]

are you sure? im having a hard time playing games like crysis even in medium. my friend, with the same card, says he gets 30-35 fps avg in very high! Strange though, some games like vegas 2 and unreal 3 i get like 50 fps