X700 low fps

[Sooty]

Hi guys, i would love you to sort out my problem, don't know what to do anymore about this.

Here is my specs:

1.5GB ram
2.53GHZ Pentium 4 Processor
256 mb ati radeon x700

When i play my favourite game, americas army my FPS sometimes drops to as low as 15! It just doesen't make sense.

In ATI tool my core is set to 398.25 and my memory is 249.75. If i over clock it, it doesent seem to like it too much?

Any advice would be appreciated ever so much guys.

Thanks, can't wait for a reply!

Any more details you need just ask.

Sooty

 

[Clocked]

Is it a PCI-E or AGP card? Who makes the card?

That clock is way off... it comes stock at 400/405 or 425/430 if pro... i got mine up to 475/525. I get about 65FPS on Bf2.....

Set it to 450/470 and see what happends if it is a PCI-E card.

 

[Ninja Colt]

I have the same card, but my speeds are 425 Core/432 Memory and that's the default.

 

[Clocked]

Ninja, you have the X700Pro... he only has the X700 i belife.

 

[Ninja Colt]

Oh yeah, you're right.

 

[Ninja Colt]

But still, those speeds are low.

 

[Clocked]

yea i know...

 

[Sooty]

If i try to set it any higher all the screen goes messed up and the computer restarts!

Can you add me to msn at : sickomcshee@hotmail.com and try and help me by any chance clocked?

Sooty

 

[Sooty]

by the way it is an agp card

 

[Sooty]

oh no, wait it is a PCI card i think

I looked in device manager and it says:

location: PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0

 

[Clocked]

I added you talk to you soon.

 

[Boneface]

my x700 is stock 399/266 and an agp

 

[KennyT772]

its agp and if u cut your mem speed in half you get the true speed. 400/266 is normal for x700.

 

[Sooty]

man so i played quite a bit for a crummy card :S

Have to go out and buy a new one and i want go with ATI :S

back to nvidia i think

 

[Thermopylae_480]

oh no, wait it is a PCI card i think

I looked in device manager and it says:

location: PCI bus 1, device 0, function 0

Look under the settings button of ATI tool. That information just tells you which bus it is using.

 

[KennyT772]

yeah ati tool will give ya the true information. use .24 not the betas. let us know what ya get.
your card looks like this card which is actually clocked faster then the pci-e versions. and your card runs at 400/266(532 effective) also at $120 thats not a bad price at all.

 

[Boneface]

does increasing the agp voltage help to overclock?

 

[Sooty]

Look under the settings button of ATI tool. That information just tells you which bus it is using.

Host interface = AGP

Ok, my bad

How would i increase the voltage if you think this will help?

Im a real nooby at this sort of stuff, i havent touched the memory timings or anything.

 

[giorgos th.]

does increasing the agp voltage help to overclock?

not really.changing the cards voltage will help.

 

[trog100]

u need a common measuring stick run 3dmark 2005 and compare your cards score with these..

trog

 

[Clocked]

i got 4000 out of my X70Pro =)

 

[Sooty]

Ok, i believe i have the X700 Pro, therefore my settings are way too low!

Something is holding me back. Someone informed me i have to go into Bios and increase the agp slot on my mother board. They said my motherboard must be set to 4x and the card needs 8x to fully work.

I have looked through my bios and see no option to put it up.

 

[giorgos th.]

dont bother.you wont see any difference between 4x and 8x.

 

[Sooty]

Ok, think i figured the problem. I downloaded a program to look at my mother board as i was planning on updating the drivers.

However, i saw that the maxium transfer rate supported for the motherboard is 4x. Is there anything i can do about this? Or only get a new motherboard?

 

[stordoff]

changing this wont help for a card such as this. Only high end cards fully use the 8x speed