5600xt bad performance

[billy00973]

Ok. I have a geforce fx 5600xt, athlon xp 2200, ecs l7s7a2 mobo (with latest bios), 256mb ddr400, all latest drivers, and am getting very poor perfoance. i get around 14,000 for my aquamark score (1683 gpu, 4907 cpu). I get around 6303 in 3dmark 2001, which seems low. Most games run horribly slow, and i have no idea why I have tired many different agp and detonator drivers, and nothing has helped. AA is off, and os is win2k. Any help would be appreciated.

[ArcticFox]

Well you *are* running Win2k as your OS, and even though it's superior to XP I still use XP Pro because of the gaming support. 2k sucks for gaming. (I've tried it)

I gotta make this quick, but did you have a previous card and didn't uninstall/reinstall the drivers before placing in your 5600XT? I'll post more later.

[billy00973]

i have reformatted several times trying to fix this

[VERT]

Win2K does not suck for gamming, I have never had any problems, though you might gain a couple of fps with XP, but hey I would rather go for stability.
And the 5600xt is a cut down version of the 5600 which aren't very fast either. Are you running the lastest drivers?

[Starfury_2260]

So annoying that nvidia is using ATI's high end card thing for their low end cards.

[Turnip12]

I'm wondering if anything is wrong with your system at all. The XT runs at almost half the speed of the Ultras, something like 235mhz compared to 400mhz. It's not really a good gaming card.

[extreme_gamer]

man if a 5600xt is at 235Mhz then my 5200 128Meg non-ultra card works better than that, at 250Mhz!

[slinky]

The 5600 architecture has its advantages over the 5200.. such as the many compression features that enable it to perform better. If your 5600 XT has the 64-bit memory bus, that may be part of the reason why performance isn't what you expected (but you can't expect that much out of such a low-priced video card). Try uninstalling your drivers and reinstalling with the recent Forcewares from Nvidia, also run a spyware cleaner such as spybot or adaware and clean out all the nasties, and check for viruses with updated definitions.

[phil_monk]

I have just sold my 5600xt on Ebay ............... i have just brought a 9600xt fir around the same price. the 5600 in one word sucks..... and is a discrase to gaming. ...... in some cases the 5200 beats it. sell on ebay and by a ATI card.