Hi
I recently purchased an x1800xt from a website called overclockers.uk, a well known website that sells all sorts of pc stuff, when it came me and my dad install it into my computer and i decided to reformat ( i think this is the prob)

my spec is AMD Athlon 64 Proccessor 3000+ 1.81 GHz and 1 GIg RAM

and of course the x1800xt

i downloaded the latest drivers off ati.com, but the card seems to be under achieving greatly , when i start up my computer the motherboard picture is all crazy i have a nvidia lan party mobo and it also literally takes about 2-3 times for it to load windows, i currently am on windows XP pro and i have service pack 2 running,

im a big cod 2 fan and even when i run it at low gfx i get frame lag, and i taught that when i spent over 500 euro on a card that i might be able to at least play it at medium graphics but it seems to be under achieving, i have checked its not overheating.. i no my proccessar is bottlenecking it but it should still be doing better than it is, the monitor also flickers when i turn it on and stuff and i really feel that im not getting my value for money here, any ideas would be really helpful .. i was thinking it might be down to the drivers for the mobo ? or the fact that when i got the card i put it into the mobo which wasnt used for a while stuck in my ram and ran windows on it straight away, any suggestions would be really helpful thanks

Vinny