Aopen FX5900XT poor performance

Just Tested again. Results below

3DMark Score 8489 3D marks



Game 1 Car Chase - Low Detail 107.1 FPS

Game 1 Car Chase - High Detail 34.3 FPS

Game 2 Dragothic - Low Detail 168.5 FPS

Game 2 Dragothic - High Detail 89.4 FPS

Game 3 Lobby - Low Detail 96.9 FPS

Game 3 Lobby - High Detail 41.7 FPS

Game 4 Nature 72.9 FPS



Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 1422.1 MTexels/s

Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 2828.6 MTexels/s



High Polygon Count (1 light) 77.1 MTriangels/s

High Polygon Count (8 lights) 21.5 MTriangels/s



Environment Bump Mapping 157.1 FPS

DOT3 Bump Mapping 207.7 FPS



Vertex Shader 111.4 FPS

Pixel Shader 151.1 FPS

Advanced Pixel Shader 119.6 FPS



Point Sprite 32.0 MSprites/s



"Mike" wrote in message
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If it helps I have exactly the same card. I have an athlon xp1600+ with
512mb pc2100 ram.

My 3dmark 2001 score was 7921
2003 score was 4500
aquamark 18000

I think my CPU is holding me back but the highest I can go is to a 2100+
without doing any mods and don't think its worth it. Will prob go for new
mobo and CPU at some point. Overall though this card is an improvement
over
my Geforce 2 Ti especialy with battlefield 1942.


"Rocky" wrote in message
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I just upgraded from a GF2 to the FX5900XT and it's running very poorly.
I
noticed this right away in NFS:UG which actually ran better on the old
GF2
because the new card is making it totally freeze up for 1 or 2 seconds
frequently during the first lap of each race. Frame rates on some other
games are very similar to the the old card too.

I ran 3dmark 2001SE and the 7859 score seems low to me, but I am no
techy.
I
have a P41.5Mhz and 512 RAM and AGPx4, I pasted the full results of the
test
at http://www.ghostrecon.net/html/3dmark-scores.htm

Any advice?


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"Helion" wrote in message
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Not so much the 512 MB MEM but what type is it?? SDRAM, PC 100, PC 133,
or
is it DDR IE: PC2100, PC2700, etc,? When you benchmark, the driver
settings
should be set to "Application Controlled" for AA and AF. .... You
definitley have some slow memory or wrong
settings at driver level in addition to the somewhat slow cpu.

Hi

It is SDRAM, and Application Control is on for AA and AF.


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"lyon_wonder" wrote in message
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Your CPU, ( a 1.5GHz p4 is barely faster than a 1GHz P3 in real-world
performance), is holding back your FX video card's performance. Also
your RAM, if it's only SDRAM and not RDRAM or DDR, would be a limiting
factor too.

Okay, thanks for the tips. How do I figure out if my mobo supports DDR? It's
a Gigabyte 81DXH...


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On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:49:10 -0000, "Rocky"
wrote:

I just upgraded from a GF2 to the FX5900XT and it's running very poorly. I
noticed this right away in NFS:UG which actually ran better on the old GF2
because the new card is making it totally freeze up for 1 or 2 seconds
frequently during the first lap of each race. Frame rates on some other
games are very similar to the the old card too.

I ran 3dmark 2001SE and the 7859 score seems low to me, but I am no techy. I
have a P41.5Mhz and 512 RAM and AGPx4, I pasted the full results of the test
at http://www.ghostrecon.net/html/3dmark-scores.htm

Any advice?

Firts could you tell us whats the spec of your video card frecency of
the gpu, mem if it's a 256bits mem's anything

in my point of view your system runs on a 4x agp slot... so by this
reducing the bandwith (i would say: video information) between the
video card and motherboard by 2.

upgrade your motherboard to get a agp 8x and it should do the tric...
plus i would refer you to a mother board that possed the nf2 ultra
400.
This is the perfect combination...

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 11:08:22 -0000, "Mike" wrote:

Just Tested again. Results below

3DMark Score 8489 3D marks




Ho, i do get 7000 point in 3dmark01 se
with my asus fx5200 td

"DreamMaker" wrote in message
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On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 23:49:10 -0000, "Rocky"
wrote:

I just upgraded from a GF2 to the FX5900XT and it's running very poorly.
I
noticed this right away in NFS:UG which actually ran better on the old
GF2
because the new card is making it totally freeze up for 1 or 2 seconds
frequently during the first lap of each race. Frame rates on some other
games are very similar to the the old card too.

I ran 3dmark 2001SE and the 7859 score seems low to me, but I am no
techy. I
have a P41.5Mhz and 512 RAM and AGPx4, I pasted the full results of the
test
at http://www.ghostrecon.net/html/3dmark-scores.htm

Any advice?

Firts could you tell us whats the spec of your video card frecency of
the gpu, mem if it's a 256bits mem's anything

in my point of view your system runs on a 4x agp slot... so by this
reducing the bandwith (i would say: video information) between the
video card and motherboard by 2.

upgrade your motherboard to get a agp 8x and it should do the tric...
plus i would refer you to a mother board that possed the nf2 ultra
400.
This is the perfect combination...

On a test I've seen, the difference from a tb 1333 (maybe faster than a p4
1.8) to a barton 2500+ with a XT was 85% more fps in most tests at 1024 no
AA,AF! So your cpu is really holding you.

"Rocky" wrote in message
...
I just upgraded from a GF2 to the FX5900XT and it's running very poorly. I
noticed this right away in NFS:UG which actually ran better on the old GF2
because the new card is making it totally freeze up for 1 or 2 seconds
frequently during the first lap of each race. Frame rates on some other
games are very similar to the the old card too.

I ran 3dmark 2001SE and the 7859 score seems low to me, but I am no techy.
I
have a P41.5Mhz and 512 RAM and AGPx4, I pasted the full results of the
test
at http://www.ghostrecon.net/html/3dmark-scores.htm

Any advice?


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Dabs.com are doing the Aopen FX5900 for £140. That is cheaper than the Aopen
FX5900XT they also sell. The standard one overclocks very well.

"Rocky" wrote in message
...
I just upgraded from a GF2 to the FX5900XT and it's running very poorly. I
noticed this right away in NFS:UG which actually ran better on the old GF2
because the new card is making it totally freeze up for 1 or 2 seconds
frequently during the first lap of each race. Frame rates on some other
games are very similar to the the old card too.

I ran 3dmark 2001SE and the 7859 score seems low to me, but I am no techy.
I
have a P41.5Mhz and 512 RAM and AGPx4, I pasted the full results of the
test
at http://www.ghostrecon.net/html/3dmark-scores.htm

Any advice?

Try downloading the 53.03 intl drivers that nvidia have on their website.
The disk that my Aopen Fx5900 came with only had the WHQL 44.04's on it!

Have you tried going to gigabyte's website and updating your chipset
drivers, maybe your bios even if you feel that confident? Chipset drivers
can meke a big difference to agp performance (for instance the nvidia 3.13
nf7-s drivers made a very noticable difference to my sys over the 2.45's).

http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard...r_GA-8IDXH.htm

hth

chris

"chris" wrote in message
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Try downloading the 53.03 intl drivers that nvidia have on their website.
The disk that my Aopen Fx5900 came with only had the WHQL 44.04's on it!

Even funnier, if you use the bundled VGA Live Update software, it will tell
you that the bundled drivers are the latest! But yeh I did install the 53.03
and they did give a few FPS improvement, nothing to wrte home about though.

Have you tried going to gigabyte's website and updating your chipset
drivers, maybe your bios even if you feel that confident? Chipset drivers
can meke a big difference to agp performance (for instance the nvidia 3.13
nf7-s drivers made a very noticable difference to my sys over the 2.45's).

http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard...r_GA-8IDXH.htm

I do need to do that - I'll check it out, thanks.


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