FX5900XT = Pants?

Hi all.

Got my new build stable and happy, sorted out the temps
and got the MB drivers, graphics drivers & OS drivers (XP Pro)
bang up to date.

Biostar M7NCD
Athlon XP2600+
1 Gb pc2700 RAM
XfX FX5900XT 128 Mb Graphics Board.

Having now run 3DMark03, Halo and RTCW, I am disgusted
with the frame rates and quality.

Is the FX5900XT really so poor?

3D Mark came in around 4990, Halo was struggling to keep
30FPS going @ 1024x768x32bit, and even an old game like RTCW
was maxing out at about 90FPS @ 1024x768x32bit.

This doesn't bode well for Doom 3 & HL2!

Am I really going to have to shell out for a 6800 or a X800 if I want
to get decent performance with the long-awaited Valve & ID titles?
(Assuming they don't both turn out to be Duke Nukem Forever's)

Best,

Vic.

"Vic." wrote in message
...

" Is the FX5900XT really so poor? "


See the comparison: http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/20031229/index.html

There are some things that the game HALO recommends you turn off. Did
you know that?


This is what Tom's Hardware said about HALO:

Since Gearbox, the developer of this game, strongly discourages the
use of FSAA and anisotropic filtering in its game, we only tested Halo
using the standard quality settings.


This benchmark may help:

http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/...i-x800-29.html



Hi all.

Got my new build stable and happy, sorted out the temps
and got the MB drivers, graphics drivers & OS drivers (XP Pro)
bang up to date.

Biostar M7NCD
Athlon XP2600+
1 Gb pc2700 RAM
XfX FX5900XT 128 Mb Graphics Board.

Having now run 3DMark03, Halo and RTCW, I am disgusted
with the frame rates and quality.

Is the FX5900XT really so poor?

3D Mark came in around 4990, Halo was struggling to keep
30FPS going @ 1024x768x32bit, and even an old game like RTCW
was maxing out at about 90FPS @ 1024x768x32bit.

This doesn't bode well for Doom 3 & HL2!

Am I really going to have to shell out for a 6800 or a X800 if I want
to get decent performance with the long-awaited Valve & ID titles?
(Assuming they don't both turn out to be Duke Nukem Forever's)

Best,

Vic.