poor performance with ATI's X600

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Eric

I've got a 3.4 Ghz P4, 2 Gig DDR2 ram, D915PBL mobo, an ATI X600 card with
ATI's latest driver, WinXP Pro SP_2, Two 120 Gig SATA Drives configured as
RAID 0 (Striping for performance) and plenty of free disk space, my display
is set at 1280x1024 32BPP.
I downloaded and ran 3DMark05 (which switches to 1024x768 when run) and the
performance is horrible, 2 to 8 FPS.
I surely must have something badly mis-configured.
Any ideas on what to check?
Thanks
Eric
 
Hi, if you talking about one particular test, the dragon and ship, my X800XT
only gives 2-3fps.....
ChrisC
 
ChrisC said:
Hi, if you talking about one particular test, the dragon and ship, my
X800XT only gives 2-3fps.....
ChrisC
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So then, the FPS i am seeing are near normal for this test?
I'd like to see how my system stacks up, can you recommend a good benchmark?
Thanks
Eric
 
ChrisC said:
Hi, if you talking about one particular test, the dragon and ship, my
X800XT only gives 2-3fps.....
ChrisC
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My overall score was a dismal 1680
There must be something i have mis-configured here.
Thanks,
Eric
 
You didnt mention intel,on 1st opening of a new copy of xp,you should install
chipset installation utility,then drivers for RAID,then also after
reboot,update
controllers in device mgr for RAID.The 915 can use 3.5 RAID application
accel-
lerator,or matrix 4.5 RAID,try 3.5 first.Thiers also another utility listed
specificaly
for 915.Video is fine but you need to process it also...
 
You be the judge:

Running against at 5950 Ultra on a 3500+ 64b socket 939 setup.

3dMark03 shows around 100FPS. Halo shows around 20 @1240x1024. 3dMark05
shows 4-6.

That's just a casual test with a couple of infected VMs running in the
background.

First rule of running a benchmark: the numbers are meaningless in and of
themselves.
Second rule: most benchmarks are designed to favor certain hardware
configurations. You're not running an Alienware setup are you? ;-)
 
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