I didn't even realize that computer may be having issues until I ran 3dmark06 the other day. In fact, I was playing around with slight overclocking to see if I could get a bit better performance in Bad Company 2, so I got 3dmark to see if the tweaks I was making were helping. Turns out that un-overclocked, I'm getting results that are HALF of what's expected for the hardware. Some slight overclocking helps a little.. but I'm still so far off. My computer has always ran very stable, but look at these results:
I even tried other cpu/gpu benchmarking software and got similarly low-for-my-hardware scores. I've spent the last couple days scouring forums and checking various settings to no avail. Here's what I can tell you:
my gpu and other drivers are up to date
bios is flashed with the newest version and no bios settings look amiss
gpu-z looks right (clock speeds and pci 16x)
power settings are all max-performance (in windows and nvidia control panel)
temperatures are fine (55C or so under full load)
i don't have any other programs running and i've whittled my start-up programs to the bare minimum
Seriously, none of the basic "fixes" have helped, and I'm getting tired of seeing things like: buy better hardware, try a 64-bit OS, etc. Does anybody have other ideas? Is there a way to check to see if my PSU is under-powering my hardware?
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