PM 7500 with ATI radeon 7000 PCI mac edition - slow running OS 9.1

Hello to all,
Well now have a PM 7500 with a G3 500 MHz, USB 1.1 and just installed a PCI ATI radeon 7000 mac edition video card from OWC.com. Installed the card, put in the ATI drivers that owc.com says I need and bummer, the card (32 meg of VRAM) is actually slower than my system video (doing tests with norton system info).
With this system, cannot upgrade to 9.2.1, most managed to go the "legit" way is 9.1. Any help again on this one would be appreciated.
Thanks
Eric McCann

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