Problem with 6600 gt

[Broha]

Hi, I just upgraded my fx5500 to a 6600 gt, however there are complications. For some reason the fx5500 runs better than the 6600. Things are incredibly slow with the new card. I have and amd sempron 2400 with an asus x series motherboard and 512 ram. I've even exchanged the card because they were convinced it was defective but the results are the same with the newer one. I have the latest forceware and everything. If anyone has any ideas they would be much appreciated. Thank you.
J.

 

[ski]

If you did not uninstall the old card's software from Add/Remove Programs, and also remove the old card from Device Manager before installing the new one, then do the following:
-Start in Safe mode.
-Uninstall the old and new cards' software.
-Remove the old and new cards from Device Mgr.
-Restart, and let Windows recognize the new card, and reload its drivers.

If that does not help, then go to Start/Run, type dxdiag, click OK, click the Display tab, make sure that all acceleration options are enabled, and run the tests.

If still no luck, then try different drivers.

 

[paparazi]

Broha
I have had a few personal experiences with both the AGP and PCIe versions of the 6600GT.

Overall it is an excellent midleweight contender easily beating last years top dogs "ATI's 9800XT and Nvidia's FX5950" but it seems they have had problems mainly with AGP versions:

It seems! that some users are experiencing stutter and locking up especially when used on a SIS based mainboard, personally I had an Aopen that wouldn't run properly (very slow)on an Asus Nforce2.

anandtech reported many 6600GT's having poor GPU contact to heatsink and running hot as a consequence.

I have my own theories (unproven) that the PCIe bridging chip is getting too hot or suffers from hardware incompatibility with some setups (after all, this card was designed primarily for PCIe and the AGP bridge was something of an afterthought)

We are talking about the minority here, most 6600GT owners will be more than happy with their purchases, at the price there is nothing that can touch it, but for the few, I get that age old feeling of an imature product release and being used as a guinea pig, as usual.

To put this into contect and dispite my own experiences, I came down from an AGP 6800GT on an NF3 and currently run 2 6600GT's on an SLI NF4 but as I said, these are the seemingly less troublesome PCIe vatiety of the card.

One last note* first thing I did was to clean and re-apply heatsink paste (in my opinion application is poor off the production line) and both my MSI's are now pasted to a much better standard.

Latest Nvidia drivers are also a must.

Martin

















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[dakota81]

The drivers have fixed the SiS chipset bug, for me I saw artifacts in 3D graphics, where nVidia had beta drivers that solved it within a week of the card's retail release back in November.