3DMark06 benchmark

[yycraven]

WOW! that big of a difference between XP or Vista. Hmm makes me wonder what I would get if I was on XP, I get almost 12500 on vista with my set up
so I should be able to get at least 15k on XP maybe.

[OCnoob]

Ok well after much messageboard searching and what not it seems that the driver error I get in vista is related to the 8800 series of graphics cards TONS of people on nvidia forums trying to find a fix for it. proformance has gone up a bit returning to the previous drivers version 169.25 instead on 169.32 I get around 16000 in vista regularly @ 3.1ghz still getting 17432-17532 in XP (friggin vista i swear) well if anyone has heard of nvlddmkm is the error and the message says Display Driver stopped responding and has recovered.

[Mecher]

Originally Posted by OCnoob

Ok well after much messageboard searching and what not it seems that the driver error I get in vista is related to the 8800 series of graphics cards TONS of people on nvidia forums trying to find a fix for it. proformance has gone up a bit returning to the previous drivers version 169.25 instead on 169.32 I get around 16000 in vista regularly @ 3.1ghz still getting 17432-17532 in XP (friggin vista i swear) well if anyone has heard of nvlddmkm is the error and the message says Display Driver stopped responding and has recovered.

I get that error when I turn the clocks up above 725 on my xfx 8800gt Alpha dog, runs fine in vista if I stay below 725...?

[yycraven]

Originally Posted by Mecher

I get that error when I turn the clocks up above 725 on my xfx 8800gt Alpha dog, runs fine in vista if I stay below 725...?

I do not get any errors like that until I get to 810 on my clock speed.
running vista ultimate

[Mecher]

Hmm. I didn't think it had anything to do with Vista per say, just the GPU becoming unstable with the overclock.. never gave it much thought, I think it was around 725.. didnt' really spend too much time tweaking, now the GPU is running stock.. actually now that I think of it, it's running at 702 MHZ with rivatuner. No problems and temps under 60 playing COD4.
-vista home premium if that makes a difference?

[OCnoob]

I have my Dual XFX Geforce 8800 GT xxx AD Edition (my god that is a long product name) both running on stock clocks. So OC on them isn't the problem. I was wondering if it is a power issue as I am only running an Antec NeoPower 500w PSU(ordered an exchange for the 650wSLI certified one), but it all runs fine in XP(dual boot) I meet the min requirements for the cards and everything else, but I can't figure out what the hell the issue is. Loaded the drivers from Nvidia 169.25. maybe I should trry OCing them to 720ish LOL seems to work for others

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by OCnoob

I have my Dual XFX Geforce 8800 GT xxx AD Edition (my god that is a long product name) both running on stock clocks. So OC on them isn't the problem. I was wondering if it is a power issue as I am only running an Antec NeoPower 500w PSU(ordered an exchange for the 650wSLI certified one), but it all runs fine in XP(dual boot) I meet the min requirements for the cards and everything else, but I can't figure out what the hell the issue is. Loaded the drivers from Nvidia 169.25. maybe I should trry OCing them to 720ish LOL seems to work for others

Myself I wouldn't be trusting that setup to that power supply. For SLI I wouldn't have anything less than a good 600w or even 700w power supply in my system.

[stoanee]

Mine....still playing

[Eldonko]

Originally Posted by Mecher

Hmm. I didn't think it had anything to do with Vista per say, just the GPU becoming unstable with the overclock..

Exactly, just means the OC is not stable.

[CraigHf]

This is what I get ( not done with my overclocking though ) :