Hey guys,
I'm experiencing a really poor performance from my brand new ASUS 8800GTS; its the 512mb version and tbh it's really weird. Systems specs are as follows:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz
RAM: 2GB 800MHz Corsair
OS: WinXP Pro SP2
GFX: ASUS 8800GTS-512
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 500GB SATA II
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-P31-DS3L
PSU: SilverStone Strider 500W (ST50F)
Basically my old hard drive which was a clunky old IDE got its boot sector corrupted and rather than lose all my data, I bought a new one and transferred all the files across. I did a fresh winxp install on the new hard drive on a seperate partition to the one with all the recovered files on it. Ever since re-installing winxp I have had this problem, so it leads me to believe that it has to be a driver/software issue. I've installed the latest nvidia drivers, and also tried omega drivers with no difference. Latest directx 9.0c and I've even reflashed my BIOS to ensure there are no bottlenecks. PSU Is working fine and the PCI-E connectors are on a different rail to the HDD/Optical rail.
Quake 4 gives me around 60fps in normal environments but as soon as a bad guy pops out or a door opens it lags like hell down to 10-15fps. World of Warcraft is much the same, as soon as I enter a heavily populated area I get a really low 15-20 fps, but the rest of the time it's fine.
I have even tried using the ASUS software supplied with the gfx card to try and overclock it with no success, the performance ingame was just the same which makes me think its a software thing even more. The IDE channels are set to DMA and... yeah... I can't think what else it could be! Please help!!
Sorry to sound like a complete nub begging for help but I'm completely out of ideas!


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