Hi, This is my first post here on techspot.com I've searched the whole forum regarding the video card I am posting about. Here's the story. I had a radeon 9700 128MB card which I had for about 6 years. Anyway Futureshop in Canada and a labour day sale. I found the BFG Geforce FX 5500 OC 256MB AGP for about 50$ with a mail in rebate. So I got home uninstalled my drivers for my old card made sure everything was whiped out. I took out the card slap the new one in, installed the drivers and updated them on http://www.bfgtech.com. Anyway I tried counterstrike: source and Warcraft: Frozen Throne only be to be disappointed. it only seems it made my game less smooth and heavier. Lower fps on counterstrike running at what i use to run with my other card. anyway I'm not sure exactly what it is. I've read reviews or other forums posts by some guys who bench marked the card and got awesome results. I'm wondering if it could be my hardware that could be messing this up or something else. Perhaps other drivers they use or what not?
My Rig is at:
p4@2.4GHZ
768MB DDR RAM
ASUS P4S533-E
Maxtor 200GB 8mb cache 7200RPM
Running the BFG Geforce FX 5500 256MB AGP 8X/4X O/C
Isn't it suppose to make my game alot better in terms of FPS, smoothness and visually look outstanding? Anyway I hope someone here can help me out, show me a few pointers or give me some advice on what to do. Thanks alot! Cheers Guys & Gals
My Rig is at:
p4@2.4GHZ
768MB DDR RAM
ASUS P4S533-E
Maxtor 200GB 8mb cache 7200RPM
Running the BFG Geforce FX 5500 256MB AGP 8X/4X O/C
Isn't it suppose to make my game alot better in terms of FPS, smoothness and visually look outstanding? Anyway I hope someone here can help me out, show me a few pointers or give me some advice on what to do. Thanks alot! Cheers Guys & Gals