gforce issue not up to par

[sonicdrive]

i have a geforce 4 fx 5600 with 256 mgs ram now why is it that my card will only bench mark in the 1400 area i mean this card should at least be in the 2600 area shouldnt it if anyone knows or would like to help me with this issue please post

[dicecca112]

have you set all the card options, to best performance, etc?

[sonicdrive]

well that is the thing i really dont know what to tweak on it i mean there is some things that i have done but not much changed but i did unlock the coolbits in it but it made my vidcard act all stupid it would go black then click back on is there another way to set my regedit to make it more stable

[dicecca112]

if you were getting a black screent then it probably means the overclock was too high

[sonicdrive]

that is the thing i never set the overclock to high i never messed with it i just opened up the cool bits and it started my mouse gets jumpy to after i opend up the option ?? im lost lol

[dicecca112]

then it probably doesn't oc well or it's locked like some radeon cards

[MrBozack]

What is it? A Geforce4 or a FX 5600?
There is no such card as the "geforce 4 fx 5600 " is there?

IMO the Geforce 4 Ti4200 beats the 5600 hands down, even though the FX5600 has 256MB.

I used one once... hated it so much.....

[madman22]

yeah, people who have never had a Fx5600 think its rly good. I own one, and it sucks. It was an improvement over a PCI Radeon 7000, but in todays standards, it rly sucks, just save up a little more and buy a Fx5900 or 9600.