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David & Caroline
Ok - so I recently purchased and installed a Radeon 9600 in my 'puter - the
computer is a little on the old side (it's a P3-933, 256mb rdram, running
w98se), and I was replacing a visiontek nvidia gf3 ti-200 board - and I
have a couple of quick questions
first - 2d performance seems off a bit - is this normal (I get a little more
tearing in the images as I move around, and page refreshes seem a little
slower - could be my imagination, though)?
second - the package says the card only works with XP/2000/ME, but I have
98SE (which, from what I understand, is effectively the same thing as ME,
where ME had a bunch of crap you could download from microsoft included in
it (new version of media player, etc.) - all of the ATI drivers for ME list
as both 98 and ME, and there are other radeon 9600 based boards which state
that 98se is indeed supported (though I don't know if they use the ATI
reference drivers or roll their own - I can't imagine they would do that...)
Third - my MB has an AGP 4x slot - should I have fast-writes enabled or not
(I thought I had read that could cause problems in some machines - maybe
that explains the 2d issue) - there are no settings in the bios to enable or
disable (just to set the aperture size, which I have at 64mb right now -
though I should probably increase that)
Benchmarking, I get 5970 in 3dmark2001se, and 2234 in 3dmark2003 (build
340) - clearly not "top of the line" but appear to be reasonable for my
setup.
Is there anything I should be worried about/pay attention to when it comes
to configuring the board?
Thanks!
David
computer is a little on the old side (it's a P3-933, 256mb rdram, running
w98se), and I was replacing a visiontek nvidia gf3 ti-200 board - and I
have a couple of quick questions
first - 2d performance seems off a bit - is this normal (I get a little more
tearing in the images as I move around, and page refreshes seem a little
slower - could be my imagination, though)?
second - the package says the card only works with XP/2000/ME, but I have
98SE (which, from what I understand, is effectively the same thing as ME,
where ME had a bunch of crap you could download from microsoft included in
it (new version of media player, etc.) - all of the ATI drivers for ME list
as both 98 and ME, and there are other radeon 9600 based boards which state
that 98se is indeed supported (though I don't know if they use the ATI
reference drivers or roll their own - I can't imagine they would do that...)
Third - my MB has an AGP 4x slot - should I have fast-writes enabled or not
(I thought I had read that could cause problems in some machines - maybe
that explains the 2d issue) - there are no settings in the bios to enable or
disable (just to set the aperture size, which I have at 64mb right now -
though I should probably increase that)
Benchmarking, I get 5970 in 3dmark2001se, and 2234 in 3dmark2003 (build
340) - clearly not "top of the line" but appear to be reasonable for my
setup.
Is there anything I should be worried about/pay attention to when it comes
to configuring the board?
Thanks!
David
, and 7200 rpm