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post #21 of 77
5/3/06 at 4:58pm
ah, i reread his first post...its a 480W antec.

it should be ok, technically, the 7 series uses less power than your 6 series, but i could be wrong on this. I just remember reading that somewhere.
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post #22 of 77
5/3/06 at 5:04pm
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Originally Posted by mr. roboto
ah, i reread his first post...its a 480W antec.

it should be ok, technically, the 7 series uses less power than your 6 series, but i could be wrong on this. I just remember reading that somewhere.

His video card ramps up to 210W at full usage. better check that power supply again.
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post #23 of 77
5/3/06 at 8:00pm
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The power supply provides 480W, Dual + 12V output circuits, individual dedicated circuits for +3.3V, +5V, +12V1 and +12V2 outputs.
Good enough? I read that the 7800GTX only needs a good 430W PSU, so mine SHOULD be plenty.
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post #24 of 77
5/3/06 at 10:42pm
If you take a look at this picture it shows the wattage your card uses: 280 Watts! With a motherboard and CPU and hard drives and fans you too close.

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post #25 of 77
5/3/06 at 11:08pm
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So seriously, you're 100% sure it's my power supply not being strong enough?
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post #26 of 77
5/4/06 at 3:08am
This probably doesn't apply here, but I'll throw it out anyway, on the grounds that it's something that could easily be overlooked:

If you've installed the DirectX SDK and enabled the debug version of Direct3D, all the debug code can drag your frame rate down; switch back to the retail version. (If you've never installed the DirectX SDK and have no idea what I'm talking about, then don't worry about it. )
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post #27 of 77
5/4/06 at 3:11am
lol, also make sure you habe Direct X in the first place....
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post #28 of 77
5/4/06 at 4:18am
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Originally Posted by Mobile_Hackbox
If you take a look at this picture it shows the wattage your card uses: 280 Watts! With a motherboard and CPU and hard drives and fans you too close.

Hey dude........seriously you're reading that wrong. Anandtech is measuring the "Total System Power Draw", not the draw from just the card itself. Only Xbit Labs has done power draw testing on video cards themselves. There is no single card that draws more than 150W all by itself (that's the X1900XTX).

This guys PSU should be fine. I'm seriously guessing it's just his drivers. He most likely didn't do a clean uninstall from what he had before, directly installed over what he had before, or just didn't clean up the old drivers beofre installing nVidia's newest drivers which is causing the large performance drop.

Serien, download Driver Cleaner, then uninstall all current drivers, reboot, run drivercleaner on all previous drivers while in Safe Mode, then reboot and install the new drivers:

http://www.drivercleaner.net/

Let me know how it goes.
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post #29 of 77
5/4/06 at 9:09am
This looks like a better chart:
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post #30 of 77
5/4/06 at 11:49am
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How do I uninstall my drivers? Like, somewhere on my computer is there a program that uninstalls my drivers?
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post #31 of 77
5/4/06 at 11:57am
Karma linked you to drivercleaner...use that
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post #32 of 77
5/4/06 at 12:56pm
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Originally Posted by mr. roboto
Karma linked you to drivercleaner...use that
Well here's what he said to do: "Serien, download Driver Cleaner, then uninstall all current drivers, reboot, run drivercleaner on all previous drivers while in Safe Mode, then reboot and install the new drivers"

Second part says uninstall all current drivers, reboot, THEN run drivercleaner on all previous drivers.

So it would seem I'm to first uninstall all of the current driver. How?
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post #33 of 77
5/4/06 at 2:06pm
boot into safe mode and uninstall it from add/remove programs in control panel...at least thats how i do it.
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post #34 of 77
5/4/06 at 2:55pm
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Originally Posted by Serien
Well here's what he said to do: "Serien, download Driver Cleaner, then uninstall all current drivers, reboot, run drivercleaner on all previous drivers while in Safe Mode, then reboot and install the new drivers"

Second part says uninstall all current drivers, reboot, THEN run drivercleaner on all previous drivers.

So it would seem I'm to first uninstall all of the current driver. How?

Go Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add Remove Programs, then select nVidia Display Driver, then uninstall (only uninstall the display drivers; leave the motherboard drivers i.t. IDE and Forceware).

But download the Drivercleaner first. Then uninstall, reboot, clean in Safemode, reboot, install clean drivers.
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post #35 of 77
5/4/06 at 2:58pm
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I did that, Karma, it made my 3DMark score even WORSE. Man, this is really confusing and weird. Any other suggestions?
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post #36 of 77
5/4/06 at 4:00pm
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Originally Posted by Serien
I did that, Karma, it made my 3DMark score even WORSE. Man, this is really confusing and weird. Any other suggestions?

Yeah, get a new video card, reinstall XP, or have a friend try to help you out.
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post #37 of 77
5/4/06 at 4:11pm
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That's it eh? ok I guess I will
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post #38 of 77
5/4/06 at 4:43pm
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Originally Posted by Serien
That's it eh? ok I guess I will

If I was there it'd be easier, but there's only so much you can do over the net.
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post #39 of 77
5/4/06 at 6:23pm
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So you know of some other stuff I could do?
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post #40 of 77
5/4/06 at 7:08pm
Do you have another PC you could pop the card into to test?
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