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Help with a 5900 XT not performing...

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donkey33

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Is there anything I can do to improve my 5900 XT?

I upgraded from an MX 440 and I thought I'd notice heaps of difference.

Granted the games look better but they're not that smooth. It's like the frame rates are low.

In 3DMark01, the MX 440 gave me like 5500. The 5900 gives arounf 9500. Am I expecting too much because I was thinking like 10000+.

I've altered no settings or done anything to the card so it's at default. Is there anything I can do to fix this problem or improve the card without overclocking it.

Thanks
 
What drivers, and are chipset drivers installed?
 
a lot of games, when making a jump like that, will still think theyre on the old card and play slow. thats because they configured themselves for that particular card. reinstall the games, see how they work.
 
I would say if you gave your full system specs people could help you better.

I also about a month ago switched from a gf4 440 8x to a FX 5900XT and I noticed a big jump in most things. And with a little tweaking and overclcoking even a bigger jump.

But if the rest of your system is on par with the 440 then it will be holding the 5900XT back some. Could also be a driver problem as I have tried 3 different ones and see a difference in each one.

Anyway try giving people a little more to work with and I am sure they can help you better.
 
Yeah, sorry guys. Forgot about all the details.

I was running the MX on an XP 1800, 512 DDR RAM, Asus K7 MB. I'm running the 5900 XT on an XP 2800, 768 DDR RAM, Asus A7N8X E-Del.

The drivers that came with the card are the 53.03's and I reinstalled some games but they're just the same.

Here's an example that made me think the card wasn't performing really.

I reinstalled NBA Live 2003 over the original. I set AA and AF to run at what the application chooses which I'm assuming is not full.

Anyway, ran the game at 1280x1024x32 with all options on and max details. The game looks fine but it looks like the frame rate suffers when I was expecting a smooth game.

I set AA to 8x and AF to 8x and went back in with the same settings. The players looked better and the frame rate stayed the same as before.

With AA and AF on I was expecting a slowdown but it didn't happen because it was already slow before if that makes sense.

Is that good info? Any help thanks.
 
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