So you only have PCI slots and want to game?

I got all of the stuff today, halo works awesome! Everything is set to high with all features turned and antialiasing x8 on at 1024x768 and can play almost 90fps! with my intel extreme graphics 2, i set everything to low and ant aliasing off at 640x480 and could only get 30fps. That difference is uge. My Emachines is now a gaming rig. Thank God there are some good pci cards. Thanks for all your help. :bounce:
 
nice nice this makes me want to buy that card too
pleasedo some benchmarks for us
3dmark 2001 3d mark 2003 3d mark 2005 aquamark
please please
 
I dont think he needed the PSU, I ran a X1300 on my 300W lol, and the X1550 uses LESS power, but better safe than sorry. Wow, I think that your emachines is better than my Rig, but my video card is **** lol, im looking for one, and a X1900GT at 130$ no rebate at newegg is so tempting, thats what i payed foer my former 7600gt :(
 
The 7600GT is still a stellar performer IMO and if you keep the resolution at 1280x1024 or 1024x768, it plays most games on high settings pretty easily.
 
that are scores for the pci express version
well i think it will run doom 3 like the x1300..
well if u want to know how to run 3dmark, its simple
first you have to download the software,
3d mark 2001 http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmark2001/
3d mark 2003 http://www.futuremark.com/download/3dmark03/
and so on
then install it and once you run the aplication, you will be able to start the benchmark just clicking on run test or something like that, it will show some game scenes and it will count the fps and finally it will give u a score.
We have some past reviews about the x1300, aprox 7400 points on 3dmark2001, and 1500 on 3dmark 2003 i think, i cant remember well.
It will be interesting if u can tell us how this x1550 perform.
Good luck
 
Doom 3 and Far Cry should run fine with the X1550. No idea about Crysis, you'll have to wait until it comes out to find out.
 
I think you hit one to many numbers when you posted your score. I honestly think there is no way that you could get 2973 with a pci x1550 and a celeron d. 973 would be more like it. An athlon fx-62 system with 2gb ram and a pci-e x1550 got slightly over 3000 pts in 3dmark05, and that is much faster system. Pics or ban! lol :D
 
Problem... dell dimension 3000

Hi everyone, I have a little problem.
I buy the ati radeon 9250 pci yesterday and I want to install myself but... I'm not able to open the box of my computer. please! if someone know how, tell me!
My computer is a dell dimension 3000.
 
run 3d mark 01 and 03 please
and also u can copy ur results (picture) by pressing imp pant button on your key board and then paste it
 
radeon 9250

Hi, I have finally installed my radeon 9250 256 mb pci on my dell dimension 3000 and I have some questions:

First: How do I deactivate the integrate card of my computer? It's an intel extreme 2.

Second and last question: It's said that my radeon 9250 256 mb has only pixel shaders 1.4 and vertex shaders 1.1 but I was sure that it has pixel shaders 2.0!!! Is there a driver to have the 2.0 or I've been misinformed for the shaders?
 
To disable the integrated video, go into the BIOS and disable it from there.
As for the pixel shader support, the 9250 has only PS 1.4 support so I believe you've been misinformed.
 
Its working

Right then for the integrated card it works perfectly thank you.
And for the pixel shaders, 1.4 is not so bad finally.
Thank you very much.
 
Dell Dimension 2350 alternative?

I have read through this thread since it was the only thing I googled that matched my situation. It has been very helpful. My son has a 4 year old Dimension 2350 that we want to upgrade for better gaming but has only PCI slots. We installed an Nvidia FX5500 board last fall which was a big improvement, but still well below current standards. We recently began exploring upgrading his system, but could not find the motherboard form factor on the Dell site or in documentation. I was glad to find from these posts that it appears to be a standard MATX rather than some Dell proprietary form.

However, we are also considering doing a complete homebrew which brings me to my question. I have a 13 year-old Micron (remember them) in a huge tower case which I upgraded many times over 6-7 years, but finally consigned to the basement. Unlike the cramped 2350 case, it has ample physical space to install whatever we want. However, I am again stumped by the motherboard form factor. The paperwork from the original purchase lists it as a "standard AT". Is this the same as ATX, or will we need to make some modifications to get an ATX to fit? The stand-off's in the case are in slots rather than holes so we have some flexibility. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks for maintaining this very useful thread.
 
An mATX mobo will fit into an AT case but the problem is making the ports line up properly. Not worth the trouble IMO. ATX cases are really cheap and you can get a standard one for around $15-20. Like this one for example.
 
AT standard vx. ATX motherboard in an old Micron case

Thanks for the response. I may not have been clear enough in my original post. The issue does not involve an mATC board. The question is whether a current ATX form factor board would fit in a case that holds a 13-year old "AT standard" board.
 
Well that would fit too but as I said before, you would have trouble aligning the slots, even with ATX since the AT standard doesn't involve the snazzy I/O plates of ATX. Get a new, cheap ATX one instead of fiddling around with the old one.
 
Dimension 2400 Memory upgrade problem

I have

Dimension 2400
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz
Processor Speed 2.34 GHz
Memory (RAM) 256 MB
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Operating System Version 5.1.2600

To upgrade RAM, I bought

Capacity 2GB (1 GB STICK X 2)
Model: PC3200 SAMSUNG
Type DDR
Frequency: 400 FSB

having researched that the Dimension 2400 can take 2x1GB
http://www.crucial.com/uk/store/listparts.aspx?model=Dimension+2400+Series

When I install the 2 x 1Gb, & power up, the PC freezes at the initial Dell power up screen, 1/4 way along the horizontal power up measurement bar.

When I reinstall my original 256mb RAM, it fires up perfectly.

Help pls ?
 
@banchang, please create another thread for ur problem instead of hijacking this thread. This thread is for the use of tmshoemaker only.
 
So I got the diamond x1550 pci just the othe day and have installed it. I also installed a new 500w psu to go along with it. I will provide 3dMark 03 benchmarks soon; however, I have a slight problem I thought someone on this thread might help me with. I installed the card with the ati catalyst control center and drivers that were on the cd that came with the card, but the catalyst control center really blows. I uninstalled all the drivers, ran driver cleaner, then installed just the new ati catalyst display drivers from the ati website. Everything is running nice and zippy now. Games are MUCH better than my fx5200. The problem I'm running into is that after I exit out of any game, my windows ui slows downs considerably. Menus take longer to display, web pages render slower, everything just gets sluggish. This continues long after windows has exited the game. A restart makes everything quick again, but as soon as I play then exit a game, windows slows down. Could this be an issue with the new display drivers? It's a subtle change, but I definitely notice it.
Any ideas?

p.s. you can completely avoid the catalyst control center by downloading ATI tray tools. That lets you acceses all the features of CCC w/out its crappy resource hogging.

Hmmm, ATI has posted new catalyst drivers as of yesterday. I will give them a shot.
 
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