- Mar 1, 2004
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I just bought a FX 5900XT and am not sure if it is running as well as it should.
I know that this is not a "High Caliber" card, but I just wanted something that could play most games well today.
It appears to play UT2003 well on full highest setting, 1280x1024 2QxAA + 2 Anti with no slow down so this tells me that it must be ok, but I am a little concerned with benchmark scores. My card before was a Ti4200 8x AGP 64Mb etc.. & in 3DMark2001 that gave me a score of around 10,000 but with this card I had a very big suprise when it only gave me a score of around 8,500!
3DMark 2003 gives me a score of 4200 average but having not run this benchmark on my old card I cannot compare.
My Specs: (Nothing Overclocked)
Motherboard - Gigabyte - GA-7VAX-A
CPU - AlthonXP 2400+ (FSB266)
Ram - 2 x 512 PC2700
OS -Windows XP SP1
nVidia Drivers - 53.03
DirectX 9.0b
All latest drivers.
I know benchmark scores do not really equate to playing games, but I have seen much higher scores than what I have got & would just like to understand why?
Also & this maybe the reason for above, I have found that I had to stop using custom cursors (CursorXP) or reduce the Hardware acceleration by one "Notch" or I got graphical problems with corrupted textures, obviously I choose to uninstall CursorXP.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
I know that this is not a "High Caliber" card, but I just wanted something that could play most games well today.
It appears to play UT2003 well on full highest setting, 1280x1024 2QxAA + 2 Anti with no slow down so this tells me that it must be ok, but I am a little concerned with benchmark scores. My card before was a Ti4200 8x AGP 64Mb etc.. & in 3DMark2001 that gave me a score of around 10,000 but with this card I had a very big suprise when it only gave me a score of around 8,500!
3DMark 2003 gives me a score of 4200 average but having not run this benchmark on my old card I cannot compare.
My Specs: (Nothing Overclocked)
Motherboard - Gigabyte - GA-7VAX-A
CPU - AlthonXP 2400+ (FSB266)
Ram - 2 x 512 PC2700
OS -Windows XP SP1
nVidia Drivers - 53.03
DirectX 9.0b
All latest drivers.
I know benchmark scores do not really equate to playing games, but I have seen much higher scores than what I have got & would just like to understand why?
Also & this maybe the reason for above, I have found that I had to stop using custom cursors (CursorXP) or reduce the Hardware acceleration by one "Notch" or I got graphical problems with corrupted textures, obviously I choose to uninstall CursorXP.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.