Is my card underperforming?

[satanlives]

Well as the topic says i feel like my Club 3d 9800pro is really underperforming
i only got a score of 4891 3dmarks in 2003 i mean thats pathetically low for a 9800 pro right even in aquamarks i only got a score of 26687.
4560gfx and 3218 cpu.
The other day i was playing need for speed underground 2 and i used fraps and all i got was 19 fps while racing even thought the game didnt stutter much it looked like it was running slow.
My Config
Amd 1700+ 512mb septek sd ram 40gb hdd zebronics 380watts psu. gigabyte mobo. & the Club 3d 9800 pro
Before the 9800 i used to have a 9600 plain and i seriously havent notice much differnce in fps in games btw the 2 only like 5-8% increase in fps doom 3 still stutter on all high
So what do u guyz think is there something wrong with the card or is just cause of my cpu? cause u know i should atleast notice some difference btw the puny 9600 and the massive 9800pro
Ive baught the card from rockymee so i wanted to know if theres anything wrong with the card so that i can get it cleared immediately
Thank you

 

[icecoolz]

performance benchmarkers take a lot of factors into consideration such as CPU, HDD, Memory and the graphics card. So the benchmarks may not really be indicative of your cards performance. Your CPU does seem to be a bottleneck tho. I think you should consider an upgrade of it and the sempron range should give you better scores and they are a cheap solution as well.

 

[satanlives]

so u SURE its the cpu fault cause i need to know since i buaght the card second hand ....thats why am so desperate to know it for a fact

 

[icecoolz]

Can't say for sure. Benchmarking tools are just one way of finding out. What you can do if possible is to try the graphics card on another machine and vice versa and see if that yields any better results. That should isolate the issue if any.

 

[satanlives]

hey and 3dmarks is suppose to test the cpu and gfx card separetly right then why is that score so loww tooo????????

 

[abhinav]

Try The new version of benchmark!

 

[chinmay]

i think ur scores r pretty good with the cpu u have

 

[teknoPhobia]

With the config u have, just a change to DDR RAM will give you over 40 to 60% boost in FPS, its a major bottleneck. I kno... I changed my setup frm a 1.53 GHZ athlon xp with SDRAM to a 1.5 GHZ sempron with DDR and got a massive increase even for a FX 5700

 

[anishcool]

With the config u have, just a change to DDR RAM will give you over 40 to 60% boost in FPS, its a major bottleneck.

Dude, if he changes to DDR RAM he will have to change the processor and motherboard

Better buy a new system.

Consider the AMD Sempron 2500+ with a decent motherboard and 512 MB DDR RAM. It will cost about Rs. 8500. Will enhance your gaming experience to the next level as you already own a high-end card.

Cheers !

 

[teknoPhobia]

a change to a sempron 2200 based system with 512 mb ddr RAM will be a lot more cost effective and it will cost about 7K