I've just bough a Sapphire Radeon X800XT PE. I've used Aquamark 3 to test the card, and got a score of around 53000. This is compared to the 60000 that a site that reviewed the card claimed it got. I had to turn alot of the cards settings down to get that score (AAx4 AFx2 Trueform, Smartshader, V-Sync all OFF)
In games the performance is alot lower than what I was expecting. I've spoken to other users with the same graphics card and they claim that they can get much higher frame rates than I can.
I've recently updated the graphics card and motherboard drivers to the lastest avaliable, but this has not solved the problem.
Temperatures seem to be OK. CPU never goes much abouve 40-50*C and the graphics card is around 40-45*C.
Any ideas why I'm getting this performance drop? And could a complete wipe of the hard drive (or even a new one - it's a few years old) solve any potential problems.
My system:
Intel P4 3.2 GHz
Gigabyte GA-8IG1000MK Motherboard
Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 XT PE 256MB
1.5 GB DDR RAM
Aerocool Aeropower 2 450W PSU
Win XP Home SP2
Thanks for any help.
-Phil
In games the performance is alot lower than what I was expecting. I've spoken to other users with the same graphics card and they claim that they can get much higher frame rates than I can.
I've recently updated the graphics card and motherboard drivers to the lastest avaliable, but this has not solved the problem.
Temperatures seem to be OK. CPU never goes much abouve 40-50*C and the graphics card is around 40-45*C.
Any ideas why I'm getting this performance drop? And could a complete wipe of the hard drive (or even a new one - it's a few years old) solve any potential problems.
My system:
Intel P4 3.2 GHz
Gigabyte GA-8IG1000MK Motherboard
Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 XT PE 256MB
1.5 GB DDR RAM
Aerocool Aeropower 2 450W PSU
Win XP Home SP2
Thanks for any help.
-Phil