Ati Radeon 9000

Mladen · Mar 29, 2008, 05:33 PM

I've just bought ATI AGP RADEON 9000 128 MB 4x graphic card. I have 1GB+ of RAM and 2.40 GHz Intel Celeron Processor. When I try to play videos in WMPlayer or youtube, the movie doesn't correpond with the sound or the whole video is slowing down.

I have another computer with the same processor, 256 MB of Ram and a graphic card with 64 MB ram and the videos are played great.

What's the problem? How can it be solved?

Thank you.

p.s. I have Windows XP

tcman · Mar 30, 2008, 06:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Mladen

I've just bought ATI AGP RADEON 9000 128 MB 4x graphic card. I have 1GB+ of RAM and 2.40 GHz Intel Celeron Processor. When I try to play videos in WMPlayer or youtube, the movie doesn't correpond with the sound or the whole video is slowing down.

I have another computer with the same processor, 256 MB of Ram and a graphic card with 64 MB ram and the videos are played great.

What's the problem? How can it be solved?

Thank you.

p.s. I have Windows XP

What motherboard (chipset) are you using? Do not forget to install the motherboard drivers and AGP drivers otherwise the graphics performance of your pc will be very slow.

Good luck!

Mladen · Mar 31, 2008, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by tcman

What motherboard (chipset) are you using? Do not forget to install the motherboard drivers and AGP drivers otherwise the graphics performance of your pc will be very slow.

Good luck!

My motherboard is Asus P4VP-MX. Sometimes videos are played fine, but the graphic card always gets too hot (cannot hold my finger on it more than 4 secs) few minutes after the PC is turned on. Should I be concerned?

***temeteus82*** · Mar 31, 2008, 06:41 AM

Yeah if the temperatures on the GPU are so hot that it will tricker system shutdown you should be concerned. Fist clean all dust from the case and the gfx cards cooler and make sure that the fan, if it has one, can rotate easily. Just spin the fan to see can it rotate freely.

Mladen · Mar 31, 2008, 03:07 PM

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Originally Posted by temeteus82

Yeah if the temperatures on the GPU are so hot that it will tricker system shutdown you should be concerned. Fist clean all dust from the case and the gfx cards cooler and make sure that the fan, if it has one, can rotate easily. Just spin the fan to see can it rotate freely.

It doesn't have fan nor cooler and there's no dust

***temeteus82*** · Mar 31, 2008, 03:37 PM

does your case have exhaust fans? Since it sounds like your card overheats ...

Mladen · Mar 31, 2008, 05:07 PM

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does your case have exhaust fans? Since it sounds like your card overheats ...

I made a picture. Where are the fans you are talking about? I think the graphic card has no fans ?

***temeteus82*** · Apr 1, 2008, 02:21 AM

from the picture it seems that your case don't have any fan's installed so the hot air generated by CPU and GPU are stuck inside of it. I would recommend you to get some fans to your case. At least I see one place where you can install one in the picture you have taken.

Mladen · Apr 1, 2008, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by temeteus82

from the picture it seems that your case don't have any fan's installed so the hot air generated by CPU and GPU are stuck inside of it. I would recommend you to get some fans to your case. At least I see one place where you can install one in the picture you have taken.

Hmm. Neither the motherboard nor the CPU are hot. It's just the graphic card when touched. Thank you very much

I'll phone the service where I bought the card.

Just one more question : My vacuum cleaner has the reverse function - to blow instaead of vacuuming. Is it a good idea to blow all the case interior?

P.s. Excuse me for my bad english

***temeteus82*** · Apr 1, 2008, 04:19 AM

It is a good idea. But remember that using too high air pressure may cause damage to your PC ..

tcman · Apr 1, 2008, 07:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Mladen

Hmm. Neither the motherboard nor the CPU are hot. It's just the graphic card when touched. Thank you very much

I'll phone the service where I bought the card.

Just one more question : My vacuum cleaner has the reverse function - to blow instaead of vacuuming. Is it a good idea to blow all the case interior?

P.s. Excuse me for my bad english

I wouldn't try with a vacuumcleaner, static energy/electricity may be created by blowing or sucking (because the dry air), which can cause damages to pc hardware.

Just buy a cheap chipset fan (for north/southbridge or older cpu, but works fine for videocards like the radeon 9000) which you can attach on the fanless vga heatsink which is already installed on your radeon 9000 (simply use several screw to do that). Also look how big that heatsink on your radeon 9000 is and buy a chipset-fan that match the size of the heatsink on the videocard. Or look whether you have a small size fan somewhere (for north/southbridge or older cpu), so you don't even have to spend any money.

Good luck!

Mladen · Apr 1, 2008, 04:52 PM

I phoned the service/shop where I bought the graphic card and I've been told that the heat was normal since the graphic card hasn't a fan/cooler and that there would be no complications. Will installing a fan improve my graphics?

***temeteus82*** · Apr 1, 2008, 04:53 PM

it won't improve your graphics but it would make the card run cooler ...

Judas · Apr 2, 2008, 10:21 AM

no ATI radeon 9000 series card that i've had with no fan EVER fealt hot let alone barely warm to the touch running some extensive stuff...

Fahim · Apr 2, 2008, 05:57 PM

ATI RADEON 9000 was fabricated in 0.15-micron process, but since this is not a RADEON 9000 PRO, vanilla 9000 should be fine with just a heatsink. Did you try checking the hardware acceleration on your computer? Also you can re-install the drivers again to make sure everything works.