Bottleneck GPU?

Itronix said:
Ok, well I tried that and it did make a difference. It doesn't glitch up nearly as much, so it's pretty smooth (running 1024X768 medium with 8x aa). Do you have texture draw distance problems? I mean, some times rocks and plants don't show up until I'm pretty close to them. The others that are there don't look very good until I get fairly close. I'll be driving in Crysis and think I'm going one way, but a rock will pop up in that path all of the sudden.

Instinct5 says that he runs it all very high....... He has a 5200+. Would I run better with around that speed processor? Thanks.
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I don't get that problem but you did say you were running the demo didn't you? Perhaps it was a bug in the demo?
 
_simon_ said:
I don't get that problem but you did say you were running the demo didn't you? Perhaps it was a bug in the demo?
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That did cross my mind. It could be just a bug.

Just out of curiosity-

Doesn't the temperature of the card usually indicate how hard it's working? When I play Hitman Blood Money, it gets up to 67-68c fast, but on Crysis it will stay a lot cooler, but eventually get up to 69c or maybe 70c after playing for a while. I figured that Hitman would be fairly easy to play, compared to Crysis (Hitman is on full everything), if temperatures have to do with anything. Thanks for your help, everyone. I can't figure it out!
 
to be honest, i rahter think your problem is the motherboard rather than the CPU.

it only has a Nforce 410 chipset. I recon thats nowhere near enough to get the data fast enough to the grafic's card, ram and CPU, if you get my point.
 
Archangel said:
to be honest, i rahter think your problem is the motherboard rather than the CPU.

it only has a Nforce 410 chipset. I recon thats nowhere near enough to get the data fast enough to the grafic's card, ram and CPU, if you get my point.
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Really? It could be the board? That's another thing that crossed my mind *hits head on desk*. If I had a better chipset, I might notice a difference, rather than replacing the cpu right off the bat? Do you have any recommendations on a motherboard/chipset? Thanks for you help.
 
I recon you will notice quite a difference there. (I had a nforce 4 series motherboard.. well, when I had my 3000+ venice, that was with using a geforce 6800GT, so I think you can immagine the capabillities of the chipset then :o (ofc, this one could be slightly faster.. but the name "nForce 410" doesnt predict much of an improvement over the "nForce 4 SLI" chipset I had :) )

then again, I'm not realy into the nvidia chipsets lately, so i don't know exacly what the performance of those is exacly. would be nice if someone could confirm my suspicion?
 
Something I didn't mention-

My motherboard has a x16 slot, but it only runs it in x8 mode. Could that make a difference on a single 8800GT?

It's also 1.1 or something, not 2.0, but I've heard that it won't make a difference in a single card setup. Thanks!
 
Edit: Thank you everyone for your help. I have a few motherboard questions about my motherboard, so I think I should be asking there. Thanks again!
 
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