Dissapointing Results On 3dmark05 with x800 pro

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I just upgraded to a Radeon x800 pro video card from a Radeon 9800 pro. My motherboard is an ASUS P4C800 Deluxe running with an Intel Pentium 4 3.0ghz and 1gb ram running in duel channel mode. I reformatted my hardrive, did a fresh install of windows xp and downloaded/ installed the latest Catalyst drivers.
Everything was fine and dandy until I ran 3d Mark 05. I managed just a measely 2822 marks on the test! I compared my results to other people with the same config and I noticed I was way low for what I am running. One thing I did notice was that my agp slot was currently running in 0x mode when it can support 8x. I checked my motherboard's users guide and all it states is that it is an AGP pro slot that supports 8x on AGP cards with +0.8V. It does not mention anything about having to do anything special to get it to run at 8x. I checked my bios and found nada there either. My question is does anybody know how to fix this problem or am I doomed to below average performance with good hardware? I have no idea if the voltage of my new x800 pro is +0.8v I could not find anything in the documentation.
Any help would be appreciated.

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I have the same mobo and it gives me the option of chosing the agp slot speed, it was preset to 8x.

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Are u sure one of your RAM modules is alive ? If they are <b>duel</b>ing each other, surely one must be dead. :lol:

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Check your BIOS and make sure that AGP 8x is set. Also, make sure you have your motherboard AGP drivers installed.

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You're SUPPOSED to install the Intel INF Update BEFORE you install the video card drivers. Did you? It's on your motherboard CD. I'm EXTREMELY familiar with that board.

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Crash just out of curiosity how would you rate the p4c800 deluxe in the world of motherboards?? How long do you think it will hold out (if any longer) as a decent motherboard?

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I liked the boards. There is that problem with voltage instability when overclocking and overvolting on many (most?) boards, but otherwise a fine board. I'm extremely disappointed in Asus for NOT correcting the problem when they made minor design changes on the -E version, it's almost a slap in the face.

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