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PCI-E 1.1 bottleneck
Name: xdr Date: December 11, 2008 at 16:48:14 Pacific OS: Vista Home Premium 6 CPU/Ram: Athlon X2 6000+ Product: None / NONE
Comment:
I went ahead and bought a GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 graphics card to upgrade from a 7900GT, but I don't think that I'm getting full performance out of it.
I ran 3DMark06 to compare it with a friend's machine. He has an 8800GTS/5600+ and scored 11404. my Core 216 and AMD 6000+ only got a 11244. We both have the same amount of RAM and OS, but my motherboard only has a PCI-E 1.1 slot and he has a 2.0. Is this why my card is slower than the 8800GTS?
Name: jam Date: December 11, 2008 at 19:57:51 Pacific
Reply:
Which chipset is your board based on? what about his?
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Response Number 2
Name: xdr Date: December 11, 2008 at 20:28:46 Pacific
Reply:
My board is based on the nforce 570 Ultra, his board has the AMD 780G chipset.
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Response Number 3
Name: jam Date: December 12, 2008 at 06:44:01 Pacific
Reply:
His motherboard is based on a better chipset. Even though PCI-e 2.0 has twice the available bandwidth of PCI-e 1.1, I kinda doubt it has anything to do with the difference in scores. And even though he has a slightly slower CPU, BIOS settings may come into play. If one system is manually configured for best performance & the other is run with default settings, that can make a difference too.
If you look at this chart, the gap in scores between the 8800GTS & GTX 260 isn't huge.
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