I bought the Sapphire Radeon X1950PRO 512MB DDR3 (PCI-E) awhile back, it's doing fine, however it should be doing alot better, seeing I get a few FPS (30's - 40's) and goes up to high 90's when there's nothing happening ingame on the Steam Source engine on Med/High. I run BF2 at Low on 64 player servers.
Hardware requirements (As said on box.)
450 Watt - power supply
AMD Athlon 64 / K7
Monitor : Hi- Reso MultiSync of multi-frequency monitor or any other type of VGA monitor
DFP or CRT display monitor.
Details..-
I bought this refurbished computer awhile back.
Sempron 3400 (Processer)
512 + 256 MB Ram (DDR1, 200MHZ because of a bad motherboard)
350 Watt power supply.
No, no viruses, I use NOD32, and CCLean, defrag alot. Yes, the video card is plugged into the power supply, in this order - Power supply -> CD drive -> Video card.
Hardware runs fine, ATI drivers updated to 7.12 (Latest).
I'm thinking I need to build a new computer, save the video card. Or save money by upgrading.
2007-12-30 20:10:23 · 5 answers · asked by Cool Calm Tom 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Additionally, I run games fairly, but It's just I want to know how to run it at its peak performance. Youknow, full extent of the card without spending a penny. Or I can blame my processer and my slow 200mhz ddr1 single channel memory (And the power supply!). I should consider about buying all 3 anew - DDR2's running at 800MHZ sound's awesome, dual cores running loudly, and a power supply strong enough to run every hardware installed. I think it'll be a huge jump, but what would you reccommend?
2007-12-30 20:13:08 · update #1
hey karz can i get in contact with you personally on some more opinions? it'd help alot, im trying to prove my friend wrong about the power supply. he keeps saying, the power supply isnt the problem, if it was, then my computer would shut off if it couldnt handle it. the bet was to a new power supply and for me nothing to lose.
2007-12-31 05:16:55 · update #2
It looks like your processor and RAM are bottlenecking the pretty fast X 1950 Pro. The card is a 66 watter. It could be stressing the +12V rail of your power supply. Some options:
Cheap= upgrade power supply then overclock your processor to 2.4gHz level.
Better= upgrade processor, motherboard and power supply. Even a cheap and overclocked (to 2.6 to 3.0gHz level) Pentium E2160 would do wonders to that graphics card.
2007-12-30 21:04:17 · answer #1 · answered by Karz 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-10 17:07:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The VGA is Bottlenecked by ur weak system..
X1950Pro is a great card, and must be used with a better system...
UPGRADE...
2007-12-31 05:52:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
first of all make sure the fan is working. I had this problem upon installing my geforce 8600GT. The fan was touching my network card and the gfx card was overheating therefore giving me extremely bad fps.
Im not sure about BF2(i own the game but rarely play it) but some games, like Doom3 and Wolfenstein ,that run with openGL, rely more on your processor than your graphics card. By the looks of your system specs your processor (CPU) and your ram could be the reason for your bad fps even though ur gfx card is good.
I wouldn't bother updating each component on ur pc rather build your own gaming computer (most computer stores can do this for you for less than $900) minus the gfx card.
2007-12-30 20:26:55 · answer #4 · answered by xenif 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Has the video card got a place on it to plug power from the power supply directly to it? The video card specivications say that it needs a 450 watt power supply and refurbished computer only has 350 watt power supply. Put a larger power supply in and see what happens would be the first step.
2007-12-30 20:25:26 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋