Hello out there!
I have recently purchased a Gigabyte K8T800Pro Board, 2 x 512Mb RAM on dual channel, AMD 3000+ and a 256Mb Saphire Radeon 9550 Graphics.
I have downloaded the latest Catalyst drivers and ATItool 0.24.
My Problem is:
1. I want to overclock my Graphics card but am unsure whether or not I should download the 9600 Bios and if I do, should it be the powercolor 9600 256 Pro BIOS or the Saphire 9600 256 non pro one?
And when I use the ATItool should I crank the core and the memory to what I want and then do a scan for artifacts or do I sit there for 3 hours and find the max mem and core?
I feel this card is just cr@p. I had expected it to run games a lot better than it does. For example in games like NFS Most Wanted the game runs like a dogs breakfast at 800 X 600.
Doom 3 it runs at this res ok on high but with need for speed it sucks as with other games.
PC has just been rebuilt and spring cleaned so to speak (defrag) etc and want to pump this peice of cr@p up a bit.
p.s. Does anyone now of a decent cpu overclocking program as I have been using the gigabyte Easytune software?
Thanks all for your time.
I have recently purchased a Gigabyte K8T800Pro Board, 2 x 512Mb RAM on dual channel, AMD 3000+ and a 256Mb Saphire Radeon 9550 Graphics.
I have downloaded the latest Catalyst drivers and ATItool 0.24.
My Problem is:
1. I want to overclock my Graphics card but am unsure whether or not I should download the 9600 Bios and if I do, should it be the powercolor 9600 256 Pro BIOS or the Saphire 9600 256 non pro one?
And when I use the ATItool should I crank the core and the memory to what I want and then do a scan for artifacts or do I sit there for 3 hours and find the max mem and core?
I feel this card is just cr@p. I had expected it to run games a lot better than it does. For example in games like NFS Most Wanted the game runs like a dogs breakfast at 800 X 600.
Doom 3 it runs at this res ok on high but with need for speed it sucks as with other games.
PC has just been rebuilt and spring cleaned so to speak (defrag) etc and want to pump this peice of cr@p up a bit.
p.s. Does anyone now of a decent cpu overclocking program as I have been using the gigabyte Easytune software?
Thanks all for your time.
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