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.
CodeWhite
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.
CodeWhite