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post #1 of 16
10/25/07 at 12:01am
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Ok, I can't figure this out...Got the computer last week, hit a 18,500 on 3DMark05 no problemos, and about right for 3ghz on this ultra.


However, then the power supply died, I bought a new one, now I Hit 7500 on 3dmark05...



So I switched to the PCI-E Number 2 slot and I'm hitting a 14,900 consistently on 3dmark05....



Sooooo is this a Bad mobo or wtf is going on?



I had a 900 watt ABS power supply, now i'm running a TT 750 watt.
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post #2 of 16
10/25/07 at 12:04am
sorry to here about the PSU....doesn't surprise me though. PSU = Most important part in a pc.

Yes I would say more than just your PSU was messed up. Unfortunately warranties don't cover shitty PSUs taking parts with it.

I would be happy to still have a functioning PC after a PSU goes bad.
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post #3 of 16
10/25/07 at 12:08am
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Yea, POS....Soooooo, do you think the mobo is bad??? Or maybe the video card?


It definetly goes from 7500 to 14900 when i switch from pcie 1 to pcie slot 2.....????
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post #4 of 16
10/25/07 at 5:29am
are the pci-e slots blue and orange? blue runs at 16x the orange runs at 4x.

also do not put a molex in the additional power connector. I couldn't find your mobo off hand.
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post #5 of 16
10/25/07 at 10:45am
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Brilliant that is correct its blue and orange....When I first got the comp, I ran a 19k in the blue slot #1, now i'm lucky if I pull a 7500....The Orange one pulls a 14900 right now, not sure if it ever pulled any higher...


SOoo should I send mobo back, video card???
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post #6 of 16
10/25/07 at 1:44pm
I replied in your other thread on this, I will cut and paste from there:
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Originally Posted by SolApathy View Post
what are your independent scores. Need to see if it's an across the board loss of performance or GPU/CPU specific. run 3D06. I can refernece those scores. I have not used 3D05 in forever lol
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Originally Posted by GBrilliantQ View Post
also do not put a molex in the additional power connector. I couldn't find your mobo off hand.
What are you talking about?
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post #7 of 16
10/25/07 at 2:55pm
there is an extra molex power connector. It's meant for crossfire setups
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post #8 of 16
10/25/07 at 4:01pm
I'm lost lol. He has an nVidia card that takes (2) 6 pin molex & the motherboard which takes a 28+8 with 4 pin plug cover for a 4 pin or 8 pin molex. Then any other devices he has in the system. I just thought that molex comment came out of nowhere lol.
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post #9 of 16
10/25/07 at 4:16pm
Yeah to be honest, I along with Sol have no idea what you're talking about.
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post #10 of 16
10/25/07 at 4:29pm


I was guessing on which mobo he had, since I couldn't find the model he gave.

It has a molex for the crossfire setup, similar to the 680i for sli setups.

sorry for the confusion
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post #11 of 16
10/25/07 at 6:18pm
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GBrilliant. That is correct, your talking about a extra 12v molex connector, and according to the mobo instructions, plug in if you run a SLI video card setup, not just SLI according to them..


But this still doesn't really help the question...Is the motherboard bad, if at once it pulled 19k and now it pulls 7500 on the same slot after a bad psu?
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post #12 of 16
10/25/07 at 6:19pm
how 'bout you play some games and see if the fps is different....stop using artificial programs for everything lol.
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post #13 of 16
10/25/07 at 8:30pm
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HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL YEA ITS different....It was acting up before the power supply went down.


Now it runs games like it a video card that hits 7500 on 3dmark05....


In slot 1 I can bareeeeely play Quake 4 ultra Settings 1920x1200 in Slot 2 its almostttttt crystal smooth which is expected I think at 15k on 3dmark.
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post #14 of 16
10/25/07 at 8:41pm
In my opinion it would be your motherboard, if the card was the problem both slots should have the same limitation, however the lower electrical slot for you is actually giving you the better frame rates etc, which I could only attribute to the slots themselves. Otherwise in both you'd see a similar bottleneck however the 16x should still be on top no matter what.
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post #15 of 16
10/25/07 at 8:59pm
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Thats what I was thinking Pd....Thanks for the help, I called new egg and am having the board RMA...I'm thinking that maybe the bad psu contributed to the half failure of the pcie 1 slot.
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post #16 of 16
10/25/07 at 9:01pm
I would agree, a lot of times the PSU if it's bad is shooting voltage everywhere and that seems to really f00k up the boards

At least newegg is RMA'ing the board for you and you should be up and running soon
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