radeon 2600xt performance problems

[theunknown145]

I bought a his radeon 2600xt and im not getting the results it should get im using ccc versin 7.2, is that the prob?

 

[dagger]

What results did you get? 2600xt is not a powerful card. Barely low-mid level on today's gaming scale. Many people have inflated expections of it.

 

[jitpublisher]

Yeah, if you want to run any modern game at more than 800x600 on low/medium settings you have picked out the wrong card I am afraid.

 

[babybudha]

Yeah, if you want to run any modern game at more than 800x600 on low/medium settings you have picked out the wrong card I am afraid.

But, his powerful "Sempron" should more then make up for the cards lack of power.

 

[godless]

download the latest drivers, or get a new card. i can't imagine any kind of mondern gaming with this card.

 

[godless]

But, his powerful "Sempron" should more then make up for the cards lack of power.

why you being a jackass? no **** he has an old system. your remarks don't do any good.

 

[derek85]

To theunknown 145: can you elaborate what you mean by not getting the results you should get?

The driver seems old too. Never use the boxed driver. Download Catalyst 8.5 from AMD/ATI website and give it a try.

The performance could also be potentially bottlenecked by other components such as CPU or memory.

 

[babybudha]

why you being a jackass? no **** he has an old system. your remarks don't do any good.

You are right. I apologize for my jackass comment. I just get annoyed when people don't do any research at all.

Here is a more useful comment:

To theunknown145: Unfortunately not only is your CPU old compared to todays standards, but it also weak compared to the "Athlons" of that time. When you combine these 2 factors, your 3D gaming will be severely bottlenecked/crippled no matter what videocard you are using.

PS. You should also be more specific whenever you makes statements so people can understand the situation better. (ie. What are you using to measure performance? What performance numbers did you expect? Compared to what is your system under performing compared too?)

 

[theunknown145]

well the graphics on it look horrible compared to my friend's who has the exact same card...

 

[dagger]

well the graphics on it look horrible compared to my friend's who has the exact same card...

Does your friend have the exact same cpu?