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Aopen FX5900XT poor performance
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? -- Rocky [ICQ UIN 41113560] www.GhostRecon.net | www.AGR-S.com |
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In ,
Rocky typed: 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 Do you have Windows reinstalled? No? What do you waiting for! -- maniac maniac|at|chello.pl |
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Your CPU and RAM are holding you back. A lot.
"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? -- Rocky [ICQ UIN 41113560] www.GhostRecon.net | www.AGR-S.com |
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"Paul Greer" wrote in message ... Your CPU and RAM are holding you back. A lot. Yeh, CPU I reckoned someone would say that - but RAM, 512 not enough? -- Rocky [ICQ UIN 41113560] www.GhostRecon.net | www.AGR-S.com |
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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. 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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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. I have a 5600 Ultra that gets better than what you are getting...(any 5900 series is faster than any 5600). You definitley have some slow memory or wrong settings at driver level in addition to the somewhat slow cpu. In fact I have a GF4 MX440 that gets around 7500 with 3d Mark 2001 SE pushed by a Celeron 900 OC to 1.08 Ghz. "Rocky" wrote in message ... "Paul Greer" wrote in message ... Your CPU and RAM are holding you back. A lot. Yeh, CPU I reckoned someone would say that - but RAM, 512 not enough? -- Rocky [ICQ UIN 41113560] www.GhostRecon.net | www.AGR-S.com |
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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? Your 3DMark score is t ypical of your slow CPU - which is about the same as a PIII-800Mhz~900Mhz - depending on your memory type. Make sure you installed latest drivers and reinstalled DX9 as well. It is possible that the card is trying to do too much and your cpu is holding you back. -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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On Sun, 22 Feb 2004 01:37:05 -0000, "Rocky"
wrote: "Paul Greer" wrote in message ... Your CPU and RAM are holding you back. A lot. Yeh, CPU I reckoned someone would say that - but RAM, 512 not enough? Your RAM maybe SD-RAM, no amount of RAM will help you. I have 512mb... im running quite good. -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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A friends ABIT - RD-RAM - P4 1.6ghz was a hair faster than my P3-866
@900Mhz a few years back... he wasted $700 on that hunk of crap over what I could have built for him. Worse... the P4(core) Celerons... what a joke. In PC stores - HP sells an AMD notebook at a price (was $700 last week with rebates) and an intel version for $750. both are simular (15" LCD / 40gb HD / 256mb DDR / CD-RW-DVDROM / modem/ NIC. - AMD 2500XP Mobile (Its quite fast with the AC - pretty much 100% the same speed as a desktop model! I've run my own tests) - Intel Celeron 2.6Ghz - which I imagine maybe even slower than the desktop Celeron 2.6 - which is about the same as a 1000Mhz P3 CPU! Wow... $50, get a slooooower computer. On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:16:50 -0600, lyon_wonder wrote: 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. 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? -- Remember when real men used Real computers!? When 512K of video RAM was a lot! Death to Palladium & WPA!! |
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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 ... 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? -- Rocky [ICQ UIN 41113560] www.GhostRecon.net | www.AGR-S.com |
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