Frames Per Second issue...

Start with what essential hardware I am currently running:

Foxconn K8S755A-6ELRS Socket 754 SiS 755 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 754
ZALMAN 600W Power Supply (Modular)
Western Digital Caviar 160GB 7200 RPM SATA
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM SATA
2x 512mb + 1gb of Corsair Value Select DDR400
HIS Radeon X1950PRO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X
O/S = XP 32bit SP2 updated.


Problem: My frames per second are not at all what they should be. Examples. Hitman Blood Money (unplayable) Counter-Strike : source (30fps average...) and these are with ABSOLUTE LOW settings. Weird thing is I can crank them up to higher resolution and medium/high settings (kind of settings I should run normally) and it stays about the same...its like my FPS is being capped (or bottlenecked) to a point.

Solutions Tried:
Ok I have tried reformatting
Latest Drivers/Updates

The only thing I can think of is the motherboard cause it is the only real new thing I've installed...and I already have problems with the harddrive controler.(most the time when I reboot it wont even see any my harddrives, I have to do a warm boot)This motherboard was just a replacement, it needs updated...the bios on this thing hasn't had a revision sense 2005.

I have a similar issue, but I don't think its that bad. I am pretty sure it's my motherboard too

I doubt vsync would take him down to 30fps with the absolute lowest settings in CSS, unless he runs at 30Hz
But check anyway, just in case.

Maybe the PCI-E is capped.

V Sync was always disabled with ATI catalyst and Ingame. Yes This is an AGP graphics card, hence the AGP next to the graphics card name....READ MY POST BEFORE REPLYING...

I was trying to be nice to Marvelous, because he mentioned that the PCI-e was capped.

ok so should I go ahead and replace the motherboard or does anyone have any useful information?

Download CPUz and make sure everything is running at the speeds they are supposed to. I'm not sure what the problem would be, I'm thinking either heat throttling, or some other improper setting. The 3200+ and x1950pro should be good enough to handle the games your talking about, unless you are trying to push the resolution up to high. (might want to mention what res you are playing at.)

Nah it can't be that bad. I did have an amd 3000+ with a 6800OC and I got 60+ frames on med/high settings in CS.

Try the bios update, I can't think of any other problem other than defective units.