I have a Radeon 9800SE PowerColor, 128 MB and 256 bus. Its known that ATI puts up a software barrier so that only 4 of the 8 pipelines are used on the lower end, whereas the barrier is removed on higher end 9800's, like Pro and XT. However, I used ATI tool and figured out where my max GPU and Memory speeds were. I'll list them for reference.
DEFAULT CORE SPEED - 378 MHZ
CORE SPEED MAX - 439.29 MHZ
MEMORY SPEED MAX - 354.18 MHZ
DEFAULT MEMORY SPEED - 297.00 MHZ
The MAX represents how fast it went when it started to get minimal errors.
I changed it to default speeds, and unlocked the card to 8 pipelines. The frame rate as displayed in ATI Tool clearly doubled. From 110 to 220. The mere purpose of this was to improve my frame rate on Halo, because it gets as low as 9 to 12 FPS when tehre is action, but in a hallway its over 70 FPS.
I unlocked them and tried out halo, I had visual errors all over the place. All I did was unlock it. I tried lowering the GPU and Memory speeds, thinking maybe the load was too great, but the errors kept coming almost as fast. The card was not hot yet either, although the card runs kinda hot anyway, probably about 140 F.
I have two intake fans (On the same side panel) and one outtake (Powersupply). I dont know the specifics on them, its been a couple years.
Again, I've posted this a hundred times, but here are my system parts
ASUS P4P800 SE (Socket 478, Supports Hyperthreading, supports 8x AGP, and up to 800 mhz FSB, but I can't find an option ANYWHERE to increase the AGP to 8x. I only found an AGP Aperture, which can go up to 256 MB, but that did not help)
Pentium 4, 2.0 GHZ and 400 Front Side Bus (No Longer Made)
Radeon 9800SE PowerColor 128 MB 256 bit bus (Supports AGP 8x)
One Stick of Corsair XMS DDR400 PC3200 512 MB 533 FSB
Hitachi 80 GB SATA Hard Drive (My OS, Windows XP, runs on here)
Western Digital IDE 80 GB Hard Drive (Storage)
I want to know why the FPS in halo is so bad, and if the problem is really my video card? Is there a bottle neck somewhere else? I just replaced the Mobo, Video Card, Memory, and added a new HD to improve performance. I want to squeeze as much performance out of this machine as posibble without excessive overclocking and so the parts dont melt lol. Thanks for any feedback.
DEFAULT CORE SPEED - 378 MHZ
CORE SPEED MAX - 439.29 MHZ
MEMORY SPEED MAX - 354.18 MHZ
DEFAULT MEMORY SPEED - 297.00 MHZ
The MAX represents how fast it went when it started to get minimal errors.
I changed it to default speeds, and unlocked the card to 8 pipelines. The frame rate as displayed in ATI Tool clearly doubled. From 110 to 220. The mere purpose of this was to improve my frame rate on Halo, because it gets as low as 9 to 12 FPS when tehre is action, but in a hallway its over 70 FPS.
I unlocked them and tried out halo, I had visual errors all over the place. All I did was unlock it. I tried lowering the GPU and Memory speeds, thinking maybe the load was too great, but the errors kept coming almost as fast. The card was not hot yet either, although the card runs kinda hot anyway, probably about 140 F.
I have two intake fans (On the same side panel) and one outtake (Powersupply). I dont know the specifics on them, its been a couple years.
Again, I've posted this a hundred times, but here are my system parts
ASUS P4P800 SE (Socket 478, Supports Hyperthreading, supports 8x AGP, and up to 800 mhz FSB, but I can't find an option ANYWHERE to increase the AGP to 8x. I only found an AGP Aperture, which can go up to 256 MB, but that did not help)
Pentium 4, 2.0 GHZ and 400 Front Side Bus (No Longer Made)
Radeon 9800SE PowerColor 128 MB 256 bit bus (Supports AGP 8x)
One Stick of Corsair XMS DDR400 PC3200 512 MB 533 FSB
Hitachi 80 GB SATA Hard Drive (My OS, Windows XP, runs on here)
Western Digital IDE 80 GB Hard Drive (Storage)
I want to know why the FPS in halo is so bad, and if the problem is really my video card? Is there a bottle neck somewhere else? I just replaced the Mobo, Video Card, Memory, and added a new HD to improve performance. I want to squeeze as much performance out of this machine as posibble without excessive overclocking and so the parts dont melt lol. Thanks for any feedback.