Hi,
First post to the forum and it's for help.
I've been working on a PC based on an EX-38-DS4 with the Gigabyte 8800 GT. Being recently retrenched from IT sales, I've deliberately taken a few months off work, as 'long service leave' after some 25 years. I thought I'd spend more time with the kids etc, but ....I've been running literaly hundreds of benchmarks on this mobo whilst tweaking every BIOS setting and soforth - just to see what could be done....sorry kids.
Great board for easy overclocking wether you just want to use automated settings or manual settings. I'll try to post up a summary of all the variations I've tried a bit later vs all the benchmarking suites.
Back to the point:
The one problem I can't solve is the fact that the Gigabyte 8800 GT seems to be only using 8 lanes of the PCI-e 2.0 port as per GPU-Z & CPU-Z pic.
I know that resolving this probably won't make any performance difference, and the 3DMARK scores are outstanding, and significantly overclocking the factory overclocked 8800 GT is rock stable with either the Gigabyte HUD or RivaTuner - but it's driving me crazy.
I'm hoping you can give me some tips.
Basic info:
- It's the 'B' version of the NX88T512HP with the gold coloured Zalman cooler.
- Currently using the NVIDIA Driver 175.16, The previous driver was a Gigabyte release from the install CD-ROM
- Problem exists on every BIOS setting from Failsafe Defaults through to 3.2GHz fully manual settings and everything in between.
- RGB can be auto to Turbo, PCI Express Frequency can be auto - 103MHz, Init Display can be PCI or PEG, PCI-E OverVoltage can be auto to normal to +.05v over, and so on.
- PCI drivers are all native MS Vista/Intel.
- 8800 GT is located in the 1st PCI-e 16 slot i.e. nearest the northbridge.
- Tried re-seating the 8800GT several times and sussing out the slot to ensure no lanes were simply disconnected taking me back to x8.
I can give you much more info, but I'm hoping you have a better path, so back to you.
The obvious step I've missed is trying the card in the 2nd PCI-e 16 slot, but the internal cabling setup is so careful that it's gonna take me more time trying that than looking for a quick fix - lol.
Cheers.
First post to the forum and it's for help.
I've been working on a PC based on an EX-38-DS4 with the Gigabyte 8800 GT. Being recently retrenched from IT sales, I've deliberately taken a few months off work, as 'long service leave' after some 25 years. I thought I'd spend more time with the kids etc, but ....I've been running literaly hundreds of benchmarks on this mobo whilst tweaking every BIOS setting and soforth - just to see what could be done....sorry kids.
Great board for easy overclocking wether you just want to use automated settings or manual settings. I'll try to post up a summary of all the variations I've tried a bit later vs all the benchmarking suites.
Back to the point:
The one problem I can't solve is the fact that the Gigabyte 8800 GT seems to be only using 8 lanes of the PCI-e 2.0 port as per GPU-Z & CPU-Z pic.
I know that resolving this probably won't make any performance difference, and the 3DMARK scores are outstanding, and significantly overclocking the factory overclocked 8800 GT is rock stable with either the Gigabyte HUD or RivaTuner - but it's driving me crazy.
I'm hoping you can give me some tips.
Basic info:
- It's the 'B' version of the NX88T512HP with the gold coloured Zalman cooler.
- Currently using the NVIDIA Driver 175.16, The previous driver was a Gigabyte release from the install CD-ROM
- Problem exists on every BIOS setting from Failsafe Defaults through to 3.2GHz fully manual settings and everything in between.
- RGB can be auto to Turbo, PCI Express Frequency can be auto - 103MHz, Init Display can be PCI or PEG, PCI-E OverVoltage can be auto to normal to +.05v over, and so on.
- PCI drivers are all native MS Vista/Intel.
- 8800 GT is located in the 1st PCI-e 16 slot i.e. nearest the northbridge.
- Tried re-seating the 8800GT several times and sussing out the slot to ensure no lanes were simply disconnected taking me back to x8.
I can give you much more info, but I'm hoping you have a better path, so back to you.
The obvious step I've missed is trying the card in the 2nd PCI-e 16 slot, but the internal cabling setup is so careful that it's gonna take me more time trying that than looking for a quick fix - lol.
Cheers.
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