Originally posted by: Crescent13
Originally posted by: xalar
Originally posted by: littlewing
I'm using the onboard sound that came with my Chaintech NVF4 Ultra mobo. I think realtek ac97 or something like that. I have 1gb of corsair value select memory. My drivers are posted above. The image setting is set to quality. And I'm sure most people have it set there.
Most set to performance actually. At least the ones posting their results all over forums like these. Set to performance, reboot, and run it again. See if you get any decent gains.
I had mine set to highest performance, I turned off all virus scanners and firewalls, and I went to the control panel and set windows for best performance, and changed from windows XP theme to classic windows theme.
EDIT: this may not be true but look at this
6800: 325mhz * 12 (pipelines) = 3,900 somethings
6600GT: 500mhz * 8 (pipelines) = 4,000 somethings
(just so you know somethings are my rating for speed, the higher the bettter)
as you can see the 6600GT is more powerful than the 6800. The only real difference is memory bandwidth
6800: 600mhz
6600GT: 500mhz
but with my card is perfectly stable at 570/1200, I was using
EXTREME COOLING when I got to 583/1240.