by deadnight » Thu Jan 29, 2004 5:49 pm
Oh, I didn't notice it. It's slightly better than mine so you should be getting a better score.
Is your RAM 2 seperate chips? I'm guessing it is.
To run in dual channel the ram has to be in the correct slots. Either put both chips in the blue slots or both chips in the black slots. Not one in blue and one in black.
That should run it in dual channel. It mentions this somewhere in the manual too.
I'm not familiar with ATI cards so I can't comment much on that. That IS one of their most newest ones isn't it? If so then it's definatly better than my Nividia card. The nvidia FX cards choke on the dx9 test. Actually I'm going to end up having to get a new video card once dx9 games become more widly used. It's not exactly Nvidia's fault though, ATI and Nvidia both made their own gpu structure but ATI finished first.. so Microsoft created dx9 around the newer ATI cards. Both cards process dx9 information differently but because of this the nvidia fx cards have to do alot of different things to make the code compatible with their cards. That slows the cards down for dx9 stuff. It really sucks.
Well, good luck. I can't really give much help since I hardly know what I'm doing. hehe. I just went through websites that had system tweaks and used the tweaks that sounded good. Guru3d.com and anandtech.com are good places to look at.
ASUS P4C800 Deluxe
Geforce FX5900 Ultra(256 MB)
1 gig DDR PC3200 RAM
Pentium 4, 3.0 GHZ, 800 mhz FSB
Coolermaster 550 watt power supply
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