FX 5500 - Which Drivers?
Here's the scoop... I was having random BSOD's, and after a LOT of
annoying troubleshooting, I decided that my ti4200 was faulty (2 years of service and the cooling fan dies at some point in the past few months...). So, I drove over to Best Buy, and got what I thought was a roughly equivant video card, the BFG FX5500 overclocked... apparantly I was mistaken! After installing the 5500, I ran 3DMark01, and got a score of roughly ~7500. (I'm running on a GA-7N400-L with and AMD 3200+). This is insane, I thought, my ti4200 gave me ~11500 when it was able to complete the benchmark without BSOD'ing. So, I tweaked some settings, ran it again, and got a BSOD. Ick. Rebooted, tweaked the settings BACK to where they were, ran 3DMark01 again, and it crashed. Grrrr... SO, I downloaded the 61.77 drivers to replace the trust 44.03's, and now I can run 3DMark01 forever... BUT, I am now getting a score of ~5500... Two questions... 1) Is there a set of drivers that are faster than the 61.77's, and 2) Did I get hosed with this card thinking that it should be roughly equivalant to the ti4200? I mean really, the average frame rate dropped from ~120 to ~40! Any advice, admonishings, pleas to return the Beast to Best Buy (with suggestions as to a better card for under $200US) would be greatly appreciated! Ryan |
"Ryan J. Paque" wrote in message ... Here's the scoop... I was having random BSOD's, and after a LOT of annoying troubleshooting, I decided that my ti4200 was faulty (2 years of service and the cooling fan dies at some point in the past few months...). So, I drove over to Best Buy, and got what I thought was a roughly equivant video card, the BFG FX5500 overclocked... apparantly I was mistaken! After installing the 5500, I ran 3DMark01, and got a score of roughly ~7500. (I'm running on a GA-7N400-L with and AMD 3200+). This is insane, I thought, my ti4200 gave me ~11500 when it was able to complete the benchmark without BSOD'ing. So, I tweaked some settings, ran it again, and got a BSOD. Ick. Rebooted, tweaked the settings BACK to where they were, ran 3DMark01 again, and it crashed. Grrrr... SO, I downloaded the 61.77 drivers to replace the trust 44.03's, and now I can run 3DMark01 forever... BUT, I am now getting a score of ~5500... Two questions... 1) Is there a set of drivers that are faster than the 61.77's, and 2) Did I get hosed with this card thinking that it should be roughly equivalant to the ti4200? I mean really, the average frame rate dropped from ~120 to ~40! Any advice, admonishings, pleas to return the Beast to Best Buy (with suggestions as to a better card for under $200US) would be greatly appreciated! Ryan Take it back! I should imagine something along the lines of the "ATI RADEON 9600 XT 128MB" would be a better replacement for under $200 (as long as you have nothing against ATi). I must admit I prefer NVIDIA cards, but with the selection on the Best Buy website that looks like your best bet. |
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