9800xt help needed!!

Hi guys, i just bought a ati radeon 9800xt 128mb vram yesterday. However, it has not been performing well during benchmarking tests fo 3d mark and aqua mark. Here are my system stats:

2.8ghz p4 ht tech
512mb 333 ram
the radeon
80gb sata hd
sound blaster audigy 2zs

i did badly for the 3dmark03 test, got a score of 3.6k even my previous 96xt did better with a score of 4.2k. according to the results, another system with the following specs got a 6k score.

his specs are
2.8ghz p4 ht
1024md ram
98xt 128mb
sigtma audio

can someone tell me wad's wrong with my system or card, or does it just need some seasoning...

desperate gamer
many thx

 

the other specification on the other pc has double the ram also may have a better motherboard.

 

Have you tried playing with some different drivers?

 

No, i've been using catalyst. . This card is getting been all fed up, i thought its performance would be excellent, but it appears not on my system, but on others, i see them roaring away...

 

There's definitely something wrong.

To uninstall your drivers, you can use drivercleaner, which is better than to just uninstall them from the control panel. The instructions on how to use it are in a readme file.

Also, make sure your chipset drivers are installed. Lastly, try different drivers, including omega drivers to see which perform better.

 

ok i'll try them out and post the results here. Please come back and take a look and give me you comments. Thanks guys. Your help is greatly appreciated.

 

By the way guys, just to show you what i mean.

Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows XP
DirectX Version 9.0c 9.0c
Mobo Manufacturer ASUSTeK Computer INC. ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Mobo Model Yale P5P800
AGP Rates (Current/Available) 8x / 4x, 8x 8x / 4x, 8x
CPU Intel Pentium 4 2800 MHz Intel Pentium 4 4501 MHz
FSB 200 MHz 250 MHz
Memory 512 MB 512 MB

Display Information
Graphics Chipset ATI RADEON 9800 XT ATI RADEON 9800 XT
Driver Name RADEON 9800 XT RADEON 9800 XT
Driver Version 6.14.10.6497 6.14.10.6490
Driver Status WHQL - FM Approved WHQL - FM Approved
Video Memory 128 MB 128 MB
Core Clock 432 MHz 501 MHz
Memory Clock 378 MHz 401 MHz

Only his processor and clock speeds are better than mine.

Being that his specifications are better than me by a little(ok not that little say resonable amount) he can't possibly score twice of me. He got 9000 3d mark score while i got 4000 only.

And 9800xts have a overdrive feature. I'm sure you guys know about it. However, should i use it and disable my manual overclocking or should i use both, or use manual overclocking and disable it.

Many thanks.

 

Another question guys, what is Catalyst A.I. and what does it do? Thanks...

 

One thing that I'm thinking is that your CPU is overclocked. I know the P4 will automatically throttle itself down if it gets too hot. I'm wondering if that's what's happening here.

 

Well, actually, it is not overclocked. Here's how it goes, this computer, was actually one that was bought from HP. However my hard disk crashed and they did not give me recovery disks, instead there was a recovery partition (which i lost too in the crash). So i bought a new hard disk and OS. Somewhat, my PC became a D.I.Y. computer but with certain limitations. The BIOS and CPU are locked. So i can't overclock anything.

 

Have you tried the driver that came with the card?

 

Well, going by the info you posted, it looked like that, or something is being mis-reported.

 

What do you mean by something is being mis-reported?

 

Anyway guys, my new 3DMark03 score is now up to 6.7k not 3.6k anymore!! I'm not sure what happened, but i used AtiTool instead of rivatuner, and when I ran the test I got a better score. However, I still do not know what Catalyst A.I. is and its uses! Can someone fill me in on this?

Happy gamer
Thanks

 

You can find out about Catalyst A.I here