I recently purcased a leadtek Geforce 4 4600 MyVivo card. While I believe the card works correctly, I simply cannot get decent FPS's in any games. I upgraded from the original 64 md DDR Radeon and got only a marginal improvement in frames. Current System:
MoBo: DFI AK75-EC (KT133)
CPU: 1 ghz AMD Thunderbird
Ram: 512 Mb PC100 (128, 128, 256)
Video: Leadtek Geforce4 4600 MyVivo
HD: IBM Deskstar 7200 ATA-100
Sound: SB Live 5.1 Value
NIC: Network Everywhere b-100 (Linksys)
OS: Win2000k (no service packs)
I get 15-30 frames in the UT2003 demo (and respectively poor performance in other Direct3d games), frame jumps in Counter-Strike, and a poor 3DMark2001se score considering my card. I've updated all drivers, flashed bios, and gone through CMOS to optimize everything I can (however, my CMOS seems to a fairly barren wasteland, no overclocking, fastwrites, and a slew of other setting people have said 'make sure to set'). I've even reconfigured win2k to not share PCI slots since my videocard was sharing IRQ 11 w/ sound, network, and usb hub. No improvement.
The question is, is my motherboard/ram a serious bottleneck or just not work correctly with the geforce4? If so, what should I upgrade to?
I'm considering either the GIGABYTE GA-7VRX (v2.0) or the ABIT KX7-333. I don't need sound, so in that regard the KX7-333 might be better. But the Gigabyte seems to have a lot of good features (provided I don't get a lemon board). I'm also worried that the KX7-333 may not support chips greater than AMD XP +2200 if I upgradelater on. Can anyone confirm this or reccomend which of these two (or another) board I should buy?.
BTW, I'm getting 512mb DDR 2700 CAS2 ram from corsair and a +1700 with the new board.
MoBo: DFI AK75-EC (KT133)
CPU: 1 ghz AMD Thunderbird
Ram: 512 Mb PC100 (128, 128, 256)
Video: Leadtek Geforce4 4600 MyVivo
HD: IBM Deskstar 7200 ATA-100
Sound: SB Live 5.1 Value
NIC: Network Everywhere b-100 (Linksys)
OS: Win2000k (no service packs)
I get 15-30 frames in the UT2003 demo (and respectively poor performance in other Direct3d games), frame jumps in Counter-Strike, and a poor 3DMark2001se score considering my card. I've updated all drivers, flashed bios, and gone through CMOS to optimize everything I can (however, my CMOS seems to a fairly barren wasteland, no overclocking, fastwrites, and a slew of other setting people have said 'make sure to set'). I've even reconfigured win2k to not share PCI slots since my videocard was sharing IRQ 11 w/ sound, network, and usb hub. No improvement.
The question is, is my motherboard/ram a serious bottleneck or just not work correctly with the geforce4? If so, what should I upgrade to?
I'm considering either the GIGABYTE GA-7VRX (v2.0) or the ABIT KX7-333. I don't need sound, so in that regard the KX7-333 might be better. But the Gigabyte seems to have a lot of good features (provided I don't get a lemon board). I'm also worried that the KX7-333 may not support chips greater than AMD XP +2200 if I upgradelater on. Can anyone confirm this or reccomend which of these two (or another) board I should buy?.
BTW, I'm getting 512mb DDR 2700 CAS2 ram from corsair and a +1700 with the new board.
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