ATI X1900 G5 - who has this card? Help me please!

Hello,
I would like to know if anybody has this card installed in his PowerMac G5?
Has anybody noticed some problems?
I have it from about a week and I notice few problems.
Can somebody tell me about his experiences with this card, because I don't know if I should exchange it in OWC or the problem is because the ATI (AMD) didn't test it enough with G5.
PowerMac G5 2.0 DualCore, 4.5GB RAM   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

Hi,
I have big problem with my ATI X1900 G5 card. 2 weeks ago I received from Macsales this card for my PowerMac G5 2.0 DualCore PCIe.
Before this, I used NVIDIA 6600 LE 128MB. Few weeks ago I changed for a few days to NVIDIA 6600 256MB VRAM for doing rendering tests in Motion. After this change I noticed 2 times better performance - as I expected. So I decided to buy the newest product of ATI.
But after change from NVIDIA 6600 256MB to ATI X1900 I don't see any improvement! Even worse! The Motion 2.1.2, now rendering my projects a little bit longer - about 10 percent longer. And the most strange is very long time needed to open Motion's projects!!
For example:
when I double clicked on ones of my projects - Motion 2 started and opened this project during 50 sec. (with NVIDIA 6600LE card). Now, with ATI X1900, when I do the same, with the same project - Motion starts and open this project in 2min 20sec! Why so long?
And other strange thing:
In system profiler I see:
Chipset Model: ATY,RadeonX1900
Type: Display
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
What happened with the rest Video Memory? It should be 256MB.
However, in System Preferences/ATI Displays/Profile I see:
FCode Version: 2.00
NDRV Version: 1.1f39
VRAM Size: 256 MB
I expected this card will be much faster than NVIDIA 6600 isn't it? Am I wrong?
Why the system doesn't recognize all video memory? Should I suppose that my Mac use and work with only a half of Video Memory ATI's card? And because of that, is this card so slowly?
I also noticed that there is a problem with wakeing up the computer after sleep, but I have read about this in some posts here.
Can somebody help me what is going wrong with this card, please?
I found in some posts and some web sites that this card is really fast, but at this moment I am really disappointed.
Look here for some tests:
http://www.barefeats.com/quad15.html
In my computer this card is worst than NVIDIA 6600!

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