ThC 129 0 Posted March 5, 2003 Im trying to figure out if i have a bottle neck with my bus system. I have a Radeon 9500 Pro, running @ AGP 4x, a Maxtor 7200RPM 120gb HD with 8mb cache and a T-bird running @ 1.33x10.5, all on a Abit Kt7a. The problem is that with the card running @ 290 core and 300 memory I am not getting good framerates. Like around 30 or more, this is in Tribes 2, In SoF2 I get around the same maybe 35-40 outdoors and around 50-100+ inside. Im trying to figure out where the bottleneck is, in the southside bus, the AGP bus or the northside bus. My system posts around 8390points in 3dmark 2001 SE. Is this normal or do i have a bottle neck someplace?? Share this post Link to post
adamvjackson 0 Posted March 5, 2003 Check to see if you have AA/AF enabled, they look nice, but are framerate killers. I don't see any obvious bottlenecks, other than the storage subsystem, but that's everyone's bottleneck. Your system specs seem to be about on par with the 3dmark score. Also, check your latest drivers, BIOS, 4-in-1's, etc, etc. Share this post Link to post
Mr.Guvernment 0 Posted March 5, 2003 what is your exact mhz for your cpu? could be a cpu issue.... Also, what memory are you using? pc ?????? is it config'd right in the bios? Correct CAS settings..... FSB right.... 133 or 266 are you over clocking you 9500 ? have you considered the mod to make your 9500 a 9700 ?????? Share this post Link to post
ThC 129 0 Posted March 5, 2003 my CPU is a AMD T-bird 1.33 @ 133x10.5 (1.4), I have 768mb of PC133 SDRAM. Ansio and AntiAliasing are on app preference. Everything is right CAS timings all the BIOS settings i just optimized them yesterday. I did the mod to the 9700 using Soft9700, which is probably the reason the card is detected as a ATi 9700 series. The card is overclocked to 290 core and 300 memory. Ive dumbed down all the settings in the games and i still seem to get shite FPS. Im leaning toward this POS VIA Chipset in this thing. I dunno its fine for the time being, i will be getting a new mobo,processor, ram and case soon here anyway so i will just bear it until i get those. Just seems like i should be getting better benchmarks after seeing all the reviews and everything else. Share this post Link to post
CyberGenX 0 Posted March 5, 2003 I would say that your ram is the bottleneck, PC-133. You should really go DDR if you have the means and money. Share this post Link to post
jdulmage 0 Posted March 16, 2003 agreed, DDR works very well to interact with the video card and motherboard subsystems. And remember when buying DDR, go straight for the max. So if 333 Mhz is the highest you can get, then do it. Share this post Link to post
