ATI Radeon 9600XT 128 MB Low Performance

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Sandi1987

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I have Club 3D and i got only 9500 points in 3DMark 2001 with ASUS A7V266, AMD Athlon XP 1600+ and 512 MB RAM. GPU also lagging in games (Low FPS). Bad GPU or what? I got 5500 points with GeForce 4 MX-440 and over 6000 points with ATI Radeon 9250.

http://vganfo.uw.hu/papr9600.html

Intel Pentium 4 2,4@3 GHz, Asus P4P800S/SE - Intel 845
2 x 512 MBSamsung DDR RAM 3D Mark 2001 3D Mark 03
GeCube ATI Radeon 9600 XT-G 128 MB 500/350 default 14672 4571
GeCube ATI Radeon 9600 XT-G 128 MB 585/402 17439 5607
ASUS Radeon 9600XT 594/337 - MKill 14012 4325
Sapphire Radeon 9800SE - 390/325 - Steven 18256 5907
Tyan Tachyon 9800Pro M default 412/365 - Gorneck22 20015 6374
 
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Actually no Sandi. Back in the AGP days, amd dominated nvidia. The 7950GT was nvidia best AGP, but was slower than ATI's best, the HD4670, by a decent margin.
My bad on the 8800GT, I remember a lot of talk about nvidia coming out with an 8 series AGP and just assumed they had, I'd been into pci-express for a while by that time, so wasn't thinking much about it anymore. Teach me to yap before looking.

The HD4670 is your best bet, if you can find one. They were top line cards, so came with the top line price tag at the time and demanded a rather large psu, which is no worries today.

I still think part of the issue is the 512Mb of ram, it's probably overloaded with the more powerful gpus. If your board is the S, it'll only handle 2Gb...
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That pc will handle a nvidia 8800GT 512 (do not get the GS, just the GT 512) which will work wonders over those other cards. Would help if you bumped the ram upto 2-4Gb as windows will suck the life out of 512Mb.

Have to be careful with many of those ATI cards as they were Dell stock and had memory/buss channels chopped, but retained the same name but not the same performance.
 
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I assume the 512MB is for compatibility with Windows 9x. No Socket A chip has SSE2 so they can't run an ever increasing list of modern things like Firefox, Chrome, Flash, or Office 2013. Thus the best use of such a system is for retrogaming esp those old DOS games. Needless to say, 9x is better than XP for such a purpose.
 
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On my rig - i get 11150 3dMarks running:

AMD Athlon XP 1600+ Clocked at 1604Mhz (153Mhz FSB x 10.5)
768mb PC2700 Kingston DDR, running 2-2-5-2 timings, 4way bank interleave,
8QW
MSI KT3 Ultra (non-ARU)
40gb Maxtor D740X 7200rpm
Radeon 9500 non-pro softmodded w/8-pipes, clocked to 325/615

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/134429-33-asus-9600xt-3dmark-2001-scores

Something is wrong with my GPU. I have lag (FPS drop) in all older games. GeForce 4 MX-440 works better in games on the same computer.

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I should get the better result i have on the 1280x1024 not on 1024x768. I have only 9500 on 1024x768, with latest driver for Radeon 9600 i have only around 8500-9000 on 1024x768.
 
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I use this computer for MS-DOS games and older Windows 95/98 games. I have Windows XP and 98.

 
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I think you'll find the OP's motherboard has an AGP slot whereas the 8800GT is a PCI-E card. The fastest AGP GPU is the Powercolor HD3850....
 
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Actually no Sandi. Back in the AGP days, amd dominated nvidia. The 7950GT was nvidia best AGP, but was slower than ATI's best, the HD4670, by a decent margin.
My bad on the 8800GT, I remember a lot of talk about nvidia coming out with an 8 series AGP and just assumed they had, I'd been into pci-express for a while by that time, so wasn't thinking much about it anymore. Teach me to yap before looking.

The HD4670 is your best bet, if you can find one. They were top line cards, so came with the top line price tag at the time and demanded a rather large psu, which is no worries today.

I still think part of the issue is the 512Mb of ram, it's probably overloaded with the more powerful gpus. If your board is the S, it'll only handle 2Gb if it's the SE it'll handle 4Gb (3.5Gb usable by Windows limits)
 
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