AGP Radeon HD 4650 running at 13.5mhz!

vanillachicken · 07-03-2009, 05:27 PM

I just bought this card about a week ago. Mostly it's been alright. I upgraded from a radeon 9600 256MB, the improvement wasn't immense but what can I expect from an AGP card? Although, in certain games, specifically Left 4 Dead, I'll get more or less the same awful framerate whether I have my setting all the way down or all the way up, around 13-18 FPS in normal gameplay. In other games, however, I can play very comfortably. For example, Call of Duty 4, I get around 30 with everything turned all the way up. What's weirder is that in ATI tray tools in the overclocking section, it'll default both core and memory clock speeds to 13.50mhz with absolutely no way of changing them. I've tried a couple other programs to overclock, no luck. I get a bench score of around 4400 in tray tools with a 3GHZ P4 and 1.76GB of ram. My question is, is there something wrong with my new graphics card? Should I return it, or is this just all I can ever expect with an AGP card?

**wrench97** · 07-04-2009, 03:57 AM

Do you have the 6 pin Aux power hooked up to the card?
What power supply are you running?

07-03-2009, 05:27 PM	#1 (permalink)
vanillachicken Registered User Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1 OS: xp sp3	AGP Radeon HD 4650 running at 13.5mhz! I just bought this card about a week ago. Mostly it's been alright. I upgraded from a radeon 9600 256MB, the improvement wasn't immense but what can I expect from an AGP card? Although, in certain games, specifically Left 4 Dead, I'll get more or less the same awful framerate whether I have my setting all the way down or all the way up, around 13-18 FPS in normal gameplay. In other games, however, I can play very comfortably. For example, Call of Duty 4, I get around 30 with everything turned all the way up. What's weirder is that in ATI tray tools in the overclocking section, it'll default both core and memory clock speeds to 13.50mhz with absolutely no way of changing them. I've tried a couple other programs to overclock, no luck. I get a bench score of around 4400 in tray tools with a 3GHZ P4 and 1.76GB of ram. My question is, is there something wrong with my new graphics card? Should I return it, or is this just all I can ever expect with an AGP card?

07-04-2009, 03:57 AM	#2 (permalink)
wrench97 Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2008 Location: S.E. Pennsylvania Posts: 18,444 OS: Win7	Re: AGP Radeon HD 4650 running at 13.5mhz! Do you have the 6 pin Aux power hooked up to the card? What power supply are you running? __________________ Power Supply and Selection