- Joined
- Oct 27, 2003
- Location
- Buffalo
Hey guys, I just rescently built my new computer. I have an Athlon XP 2500, Asus A7N8X Deluxe, Sapphire Raedon 9800 Pro, Hercules Digifire 7.1. The ram in my system is Geil PC 3200 Ram with a 512 and a 256 in it and they also include heat spreaders. I have all the latest drivers and the latest bios for my motherboard. In the bios the only things I changed were I made the processor at 200 X 10.5 and put the settings at agressive. I left it at stock voltage. I also changed the video card to AGP and turned the onboard sound feature off. Now the problem is my performance in many games is very bad. Max Payne 2 and Rainbow Six 3 do not run very good at all. I put them both on pretty much the highest settings, maybe my expectations are to high but I feel I should be able to put the settings all the way up with no problems on these games. Even the resolution is set at only 1024 X 768. In RS3 the fps drop below 40 often and the slowdown is very noticible. In 3D Mark 2003 I score around like 4700 which seems to be almost 2000 lower then many of you with similar systems. My question is what could I be doing wrong, are there things in the bios I am not setting or other optimizations I am not doing. Keep in mind yes I am overclocking but the performance is pretty much the same when I leave the system clocked where is should be. Could there be something wrong with my video card or anything like that. Also my computer temperatures are very good and never go above 25 C and the CPU temp never goes above 40 C. Thanks any help is appreciated!