I'm back again,I bought the X1650 PRO from OC UK.And i got 1048MB of RAM off of ebay.I got the G' card the day after I got it,I got the RAM to work with the old 512MB RAM so I now have 1560MB of RAM.We got a free game as well Dungeon Siege.No problems at all with the Card or the RAM.However the performance is not what I had hoped for. Flight Simulator 2004/X was not any better before th RAM arrived.I assumed that the card was putting too much pressure on the hard drive.The RAM eventually did arrive and did help, at least a bit! It doesn't make any sense why the computer appears to be worse than with the Radeon 9600XT.I've spent £144 to get the computer to this stage.I can't put the old card back in because the 9600XT has been given away and the other 9600 is just as bad.(I've had the RAM and G' Card for two weeks now).Tonight I had a problem with the Motherboard.I thought that there was a problem with the M'board.I footerd with the BIOS and i've done everything do i need a new M'board?
2007-01-19 06:56:43 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Not enough information. What kind of motherboard... what kind of memory (speed of old and new, are they matched) Operating system (i am assuming xp) what CPU is installed?
2007-01-19 07:06:43 · answer #1 · answered by Fremen 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would suggest pulling the old 512MB stick and see if the performance improves. It's most likely that the old stick is forcing the new memory to run at slower speeds. This would be the primary cause of lackluster performance. Also, messing around in the BIOS is not recommended unless you REALLY know what you're doing. Chances are that you made things worse by changing random settings in the BIOS. If you built this computer yourself, or can get your hands on a motherboard manual, try to reset the CMOS (instructions will be included with any motherboard literature).
Good luck!
@Venom: The 9600 is an AGP card, which leads me to believe that the motherboard has an AGP slot. This means that a 7900/7950 is incompatible. I believe the best AGP card NVidia is selling is the 7600.
2007-01-19 07:10:15 · answer #2 · answered by canada3332 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After reading your prior questions here's what I would do at this point.
Remove video drivers (look it up to do this correctly)
Remove the 512MB stick of RAM and install the new RAM in the primary slot(s)
Reset BIOS
Restart and install newest drivers from ATI
In the future, before shelling out $$$ find a good computer forum. Not Yahoo! Answers and do some research/post questions there.
2007-01-19 07:19:16 · answer #3 · answered by Wurm™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No keep your motherboard and get rid of the X1650Pro, that is not a great card.
For ATi get an X1900/X1950 series card
For Nvidia get a GeForce 7900/7950 series card.
Then you will be in business.
I have an ATI X1900 GT and I get only 30FPS in Flight Simulator 2004, and my card is a lot better than the X1650 pro, especially after overclocking it.
2007-01-19 07:09:47 · answer #4 · answered by Venom 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try taking the 512 out. If it is slower than your 1048, all of the RAM will run at the same speed. If it is significantly slower, you will definitely notice the bottleneck when playing. Make sure you have all updated drivers installed for your video card, and make sure there isn't any process draining your resources by Ctrl+Shift+Esc and checking the Task manager.
2007-01-19 07:07:36 · answer #5 · answered by merlinn31 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Try reflashing the bios. With the little cmos jumper ont he m'board.
2007-01-19 07:03:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋