[marsay001]

im dave im new to the forum, so hey people :)
anyway i planning a huge upgradw with my pc and the other day i bought a radeon x1650 pro 512 mb agp card, fitted it and it works fine, but very disapointingly its really not much faster than my previous card a 256 mb radeon 9550 ( god it served me well lol), i am wondering, well more hoping that it is performing poorly because i am only using a 250 watt power supply and ATI reccomend a 400 watt, so is it running slower than it should be because of this?, i have bought a 500 watt psu it just hasnt arrived yet, but in the reviews i read this card was playing games like oblivion at around 50 fps with hi settings and AA and AF

[serverguy]

Hmmm I doubt the PSU would be slowing it down. It would either run it or not. But it may help.

Have you got all the latest drivers for it?

What OS do you have?

[alex]

On another note, Oblivion is massively gpu intensive. Unless you're going for a very low resolution you're going to have to compromise on the AA/AF considering the gpu you have to achieve even playable framerates, let alone 50+.

The X1650 was not manufactured and designed during ATI's finest hour.

The extra 256mb ram over a stock 1650 won't help with AA either as the card simply doesn't have the grunt to use it.

[cheesewheels99]

ya it wouldnt run if it was ur psu i personlly would have got nvidia

[alex]

Originally Posted by cheesewheels99 ya it wouldnt run if it was ur psu i personlly would have got nvidia

Bit of an open statement there CW.

Nivia also produce low end and mid range gpu's. So even with one of these he'd probably have the same issue's I mentioned.

[marsay001]

ah ok well fair enough then lol, although i know my cpu will be limiting it (amd xp 1900) but getting one tomorow XD, but that should help it right?

[alex]

It will certainly help but the limiting factor is going to be the gpu.

[marsay001]

http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/ind...1&limitstart=4 here read this review on this card, the syste, bare bones they use to test this card is amd 64 3500+, 1 gig ram and my card the x1650 pro and the 7600gs, it not a bad card for price, but it even struggles with world of warcraft at times??, i really think it something else , i ltell you if the psu does make a dif when it comes tomorow, and then il tell you what its liek when the new setup arrives as well, thanks for help guys

[alex]

Yeah, keep us informed. I'd be interested.

[Fatpigeon]

more ram would help too, depending on what ur running at the moment. a top of the range graphics card on a shit computer don't complement each other

[marsay001]

well the psu has arrived and , well looks lie you guys were right lol, the new setup should hopefully arrive tomorow im getting AMD athlon 64 3200+ clawhammer and an ABIT NF8-V Socket 754 Motherboard , i have discoverd un fortunatley that for some reason the memory is only clocked at 300 mhz when it shoud be 700 ? i think i may have a dodgy card, could it be the drivers?

[cheesewheels99]

it may be the drivers try to update or wait for your ur cpu and see