Not impressed with the ATI Radeon x800xt!!

I have been using the ati radeon x800xt for about two months now. I do motion graphics and 3d and I am not impressed. Barely saw an increase in AE 6.5 or Maya and Motion is painfully slow.
I have a G-Raid 300gb that runs at 7200rpm through FW800.
With 3.5 gb of ram I would assume I would see a major increase.
Is it because I only have 2.0Ghz
I am using all the high performance settings in the preferences and still no luck.
I am dying here. please help!!!
2.0 GHz G5 Mac OS X (10.4.4) 3.5 GB RAM, G-Raid 300 GB, ATI Radeonx800xt

It doesn't sound like the Radeon's fault, sounds like the G-Raid isn't keeping up with your demanding tasks. You might need a faster solution for piping the data through. Hmm, what's your G-Raid's transfer rate right now? Mine gives a solid 80Mb/sec read rate (500Gb G-Raid) FW800. I don't think it's because you only have a 2GHz machine, that's still a really solid performer...
You might need to stripe 4HD's in RAID 0 or just get a pair of Raptor 150's in an eSATA enclosure and then you'll see some serious motion.

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