Well, it so happens that I manually increased the performance of my GeForce 8800GTS/320 by more than 100% without relabeling anything, just a little bit of reverse magic. Instead of throwing pixie dust on it I sucked all the dust from its fan and the one of the CPU. Looks good as new now. Almost sparkly. Silent again, too.
It turned out that a GPU temperature of 110° Celcius due to all the dust (mostly in the CPU's fan) was considered critical so it powered itself down to a crawl after 20 seconds of playing, which meant only 1/3 of the usual FPS in games.
Otherwise, nice, almost exactly my system specs. I wonder if it's still doing fine when it's considered "low class" ...
It turned out that a GPU temperature of 110° Celcius due to all the dust (mostly in the CPU's fan) was considered critical so it powered itself down to a crawl after 20 seconds of playing, which meant only 1/3 of the usual FPS in games.
Otherwise, nice, almost exactly my system specs. I wonder if it's still doing fine when it's considered "low class" ...
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