I've just got myself a nice little radeon 9700 (says its a pro on my pc though...). I'm a little...maybe quite abit, dissapointed in the perfomance i have been getting. my system specs are in my sig. i also have a "Asus A7A266-E" motherboard.
3dmark2001 score : 9590
3dmark2003 score : 3896
my friend has a geforce 4 ti 4400, at time of testing, with 512 ddr and a athlon xp 2000+, he managed to score almost 11,000! how does that work eh? he also had a MSI motherboard with 4agp...but i *think* it supports 333fsb.
Anyway, he then later got a new MSI board from ebuyer, 8xagp and 333fsb, along with a xp 2600+ and hes saying how the "8x" agp "utllized" his graphics card. (i get the empression he don't no rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbish, he hardly uses his pc, he says, and he spends all this money on it).
but what i don't understand is, my radeon 9700 pro should be urinating on his test marks, or at least avoiding lag in most games...
Demos i have tested (havent got many games at the moment) all on 1024x768 with 32bit colour and no anti anazling or anything.
quake 3 arena, full details maximo, ran very well indeed. (not sure about the fps, havent got the console command)
vietcong demo : ran very dirty and sluggish at the start, just like my old geforce 2. hardly any graphical difference?
ut2003 : runs between 40-100, very nice only really lags when someone fires a redeemer, on the outside level, it can get prettty low 30 ish, when theres a medium amount of action going on. the scaleable otpions, some of them only have "normal, low, lower, lowest....i'm sure my friends ti system, games looked alot better? he had more scable options on ut2003 thats for sure. (is it his athlon xp?)
MOHAA singple player demo : well, this looked...hardly ANY different to my geforce 2 expirence? maybe its the demo, but my friends 4400 or athlon xp made it sure looked better....and i'm sure its not ment to jerk like that....
I'm making out its running really badly...well...its not...but not what i expected from a 9700 pro to be honest...but i think its down to the rest of my system.
i have a amd athlon, 1.4ghz, the last in the thunderbird range. its got 266fsb, max my motherboard supports. same for the ram, 512 ddr pc2100. Is it that thats causing slow down?
i have a asus 266-e motherboard, without a bios update, its max cpu is the one i have. it supports 2 gb of ddr 266 ram.
its got a 4x agp slot.
i have a soundblaster live soundcard, which has some issues with xp, it said when instlaling its software. is it this that *could* be draining system resources?
I have 2 options...
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=43354
Purchase the above athlon xp, and do a bios flash update or whatever it is...
or
http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/produ...duct_uid=43223
get that motherboard, put my current kit onto it, then when i have the funds, add a 2800xp and a 2x 256 ddr 2700. (i was thinking it would be best to do so once the athlon 64s are out?)
Well, if any of you actually read this, i'll be happy, and any help is much appriciated