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HD4670 - Very Poor Performance

tomw92

tomw92

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Happy New Year All!!

Now down to my problem,

I just bought a Sapphire HD4670 for my system. All went well when installing the drivers and software until I went to play games. When playing Counter Strike Source I get around 20fps on very low settings, the same result also occurs on Call of Duty 4. However playing something like 007 Nightfire or Carom3d gets fps of 65+, even with full AA and Filtering.

My System Specs:

Pentium D @ 2.8Ghz
1.00Gb DDR Ram
350 Watt PSU
XP Pro SP3

Any Ideas why I am getting such poor frame rates??

Thanks in advance,

Tom
 
tomw92 said:
Happy New Year All!!

Now down to my problem,

I just bought a Sapphire HD4670 for my system. All went well when installing the drivers and software until I went to play games. When playing Counter Strike Source I get around 20fps on very low settings, the same result also occurs on Call of Duty 4. However playing something like 007 Nightfire or Carom3d gets fps of 65+, even with full AA and Filtering.

My System Specs:

Pentium D @ 2.8Ghz
1.00Gb DDR Ram
350 Watt PSU
XP Pro SP3

Any Ideas why I am getting such poor frame rates??

Thanks in advance,

Tom
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gonna have a guess here and say these two items are slowing you down and bottle necking your graphics
 
The Pentium D is dual core so I ruled that out??

The Ram is crap and I am looking into an upgrade at the moment.

The card is also PCI-E 2.0 and my slot is only PCI-E - I wonder if that makes a difference - it is running at 16x
 
tomw92 said:
The Pentium D is dual core so I ruled that out??
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It may be a dual core, but the netburst architecture of the P4 is archaic at best.

A dual-core 2.8GHz P4 is only equivalent to a Core2Duo running at about 1.4GHz.

And 1GB of RAM will get used up incredibly quickly.
 
The Mobo is an Abit IP95

Tight is around £75 because I am learning to drive next month
 
But then there is that plus RAM, and possibly a new mobo if there will be much difference in performance between PCIE and PCIE 2
 
Your CPU is by modern standards verrrryyyyy weak, doesn't matter if it's dual core or not, it's based on pretty horrible architecture.

Just save up for a few months then upgrade to a cheap Core2 system (you will need to by a new mobo, CPU and 2GB RAM), the difference in performance will be drastic.
 
I have a P4 3.4GHz lying around - that will fit in my mobo, would I see performance increase with this at all as a tempory solution??
 
Ok, so main upgrade atm is going to be RAM, will a 800Mhz 6400 stick work on my mobo? Assuming that the speeds slow down to match 533mhz mobo? Then eventually new cpu and mobo, correct?
 
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