Huge problem. Please help me out guysz.

[Broly]

So. i recently purchased an x1800xt, with a DFI Lanparty UT motherboard.
Both are great, but in performance, I cannot see how I"m only getting no more than 70 frames per second at 8x anti aliasing, and 8x aniso filtering. Plus HDR and Vsync ON OR OFF(doesnt make a diff)
I'm thinking of 2 things now:
1. Getting 2 512mb 7800 gtx's. And an A8N SLI Deluxe.
2. Buying one more x1800 xt.

I think the reason I'm getting such low frames is due to my 30 " apple screen that I have. maybe playing source in 2560 x 1600 is really demanding I'm not really sure, but please guys, throw out some suggestions.
I'm after premier performance, and thus far, ATI has NOT Delivered.

I will be selling the x1800 to board members, the ones with great heatware will receive the card first.
ANyways

Suggestions?

 

[Pathogen03]

70 fps is bad.. ?

For dual card solution, go with Nvidia

but yeah, thats pretty damn good for that resolution... Thats actually awesome.

 

[cmdrdredd]

at that rez 70fps is really damn good

Maybe what you need is to give me that PC and go buy a Xbox360

If you complain about 70fps there is something wrong

 

[atybimf]

I wouldn't call this a "huge problem." In fact, I wouldn't call it a "problem" at all..

 

[Matthias99]

Both are great, but in performance, I cannot see how I"m only getting no more than 70 frames per second at 8x anti aliasing, and 8x aniso filtering. Plus HDR and Vsync ON OR OFF(doesnt make a diff)
I'm thinking of 2 things now:
1. Getting 2 512mb 7800 gtx's. And an A8N SLI Deluxe.
2. Buying one more x1800 xt.

I think the reason I'm getting such low frames is due to my 30 " apple screen that I have. maybe playing source in 2560 x 1600 is really demanding I'm not really sure, but please guys, throw out some suggestions.

Um, yes, 2560x1600 with AA is *incredibly* demanding (note that ATI cards do not support 8xAA; use 6x on ATI cards). Although 70FPS is hardly "bad" performance; the only things that are going to be faster are multi-card setups.

 

[Ricemarine]

OMG WTH?

I would love that fps! at 2560X1600.

Try 4XAA 8XAF Vsync off, Quality, truform and everything except stuff like trilinear optimizations (I don't know if they have it, don't remember) off.