ATI Radeon x1950

Danda

Danda

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Good Day all, Danda here

I have been using this card for a month and a half and its a great card (Better han the last one I had). But for some reason, when I play 'Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway' it lags. People tell me that this card should be great for this game. Even when I turn the setting to the lowest It can offer me.

A friend of mine told me that I need to set a Fan Speed, that could be a problem. So enough Shinanagins here is my question;

Is there a program that I can change my Fan Speed into this Card? Much Appreciated all! Thanks!

-Danda
 
The ATI x1950 is really not that great of a card. It is a perfect card for basic computer use but gaming it just won't be able to run the engines that power today's games. According to reviews it is about the same as the Nvidia 7900GT. My daughter's Dell XPS 400 has a 7900GT and it runs Call of Duty 4 just playable. Cards that were awesome 2 or 3 years ago struggle with the complex games of today. The x1950 was released I think about summer of 2006.
 
Yikes, by the sound of it I need a new one. Whats a good Card that is like $80-$100? On a budget ^^;
 
Is your X1950 card an AGP bus or PCI-e? I would also recommend the 9600gt, a very nice card for the price!
 
no it is not true. the 9600 is the best card for the money at that price range. another contender would be the ATI HD3870 but i chose to post this instead.
 
was it the x1950xtx? or x1950gt?

x850xt is a better card than x1950gt.

x1950xtx is an amazing card for fear, stalker, titan quest and even crysis.

x1950xtx with 4gig system ram is splendid. x1950xtx with 1gig system ram will cause stutter.

i am thinking why you have trouble playing your game is your low amount of system ram and 2mb cache hard drive and also less than 9% of free space avalible in your hdd.

i guaranteed you x1950xtx with 8gig system ram vista64bit will play hells highway and bioshock flawlessly on high.. even if you happend to get 17 frame rate but it will be smooth.. super smooth.

dont worry much about cpu. pentium4 3.0ghz, athlon64 3000+ or even sempron64 is no problem as long as you have high amount of system ram and good graphic card.

im not a tech but im saying from my experience, belief and opinion. i know some or many will opose my view but it is ok i am stubborn.
 
Its x1950gt

This is my computer Spec atm. Someone told me that my spec could alo slow down the Performance of the Graphics card;

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-p31-DS3L 45nm and 1066mhz ddr2 support

CPU: 3.4ghz Pentium D 950 with stock cooling

Video: Asus Radeon x1950pro 256mb GDDR3

Ram: 2x 1gb Gskill PC6400 DDR2

HDD: 160gb seagate 7200rpm sata x2

PSU: 550w Coolmax

Windows Vista home premium 64 bit
 
It's possible that the CPU is slowing it down a little bit, but everything else seems to be good. Don't get me wrong, that PentiumD @ 3.4 is a quick processor, but I think it's pretty much your GPU at this time.
 
If I must replace that Processor then I will to get the most out of it. Whats a good Processor then if this one is a bit slow?
 
i would think that your processor is fine. it has enough cache, and i believe a 3.4ghz processor is still a 3.4ghz processor, even though its probably equal to something like my e4500 at stock... so you have 2 gigs of ram, same as me, a processor similar to mine, a good motherboard, the only large difference between our computers is our video cards.
 
Ya, GPU is the issue. I'd recommend the original GPU that lovely linked to above, the 9600gt. As he said, it's a fantastic card for the price..
 
That processor is fine, I ran a 3.2ghz Pentium D 940 in my system for a test before I got my Q9300 and it ran my 9800 GTX just fine...smooth as heck. Of course it didn't score as high on benchmarks and all, but playing a game like CoD 4 I can't even tell a difference between the two processors. I don't think that processor is the issue.

Here is an EVGA 9600 GSO for $99 with a $50 mail in rebate!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130356

Customer feed back on Newegg, not that it means much but:

Pros: Upgraded from an X1950 Pro. Easily doubled my performance.. OCed to 660/1800 with no problem with stock cooler.
 
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