9600 GT is severly being bottlenecked.

Why have you got the card in a PCIE 8x slot? Also both those games are very demanding. You have a nvidia card so why are you using CCC? Also the rez you are playing at is quite low making the games more cpu dependent.

I severly doubt there is any kind of bottleneck going on at all. I have a 3870 and I can play Crysis @ 1280x1024 everything on high with no AA dx9, and I have a 4800x2 @ 2.4ghz.

Some suggestions are to put the card in a pcie x16 slot. There might be some kind of driver conflict going on like why are you mentioning CCC. It is also possible that because you have Vista x64 that 2gb of ram simply isn't enough. Your best option is to format and reinstall vista and then see what happens.

Sorry CCC also stands for Catalyst control centre used by ATI drivers. Increase the resolution as it puts a greater work load on your graphics card. You should always have the resolution at the native resolution of the monitor. What size monitor do you have?

Well that sucks on the mobo front. Are you certain that it won't run at x16 because there should be the option to change it in the bios. You should have really returned the mobo as that is misrepresentation.

Have you tried playing Crysis without the graphics mod as it could be causeing issues.

I checked WIC benchmarks used with the 9600gt and at you settings you should be getting around 50fps. So it seems as though there is something definately wrong.

Have you got the latest chipset drivers and bios for your mobo?

what chipset is it? maybe the chipset manufacturer has a newer bios than the motherboard manufacturer. Jetway is one of the manufacturers I avoid due to bad experience...

The bios is down to the manufacturer I as it is brand specific. However you are correct on the chipset drivers. They are standard. So use cpuz and check the mobo section to see what chipset you have.

Yha, They have drivers...

From Gigabyte! I don't want to risk installing it, Gigabyte's awesomeness my destroy the mobo.

Yha, thats it. Thanks, though I think I already have that installed..

Edit: How do I install this??!

Dont buy cheap parts to play a badass game.
Mobo junk
CPU junk
PSU is junk if it is a no name brand that came with caes.

You think a 300 dollar system is gonna keep up with a 1000 system? Come on.

To find out if the bios are the same cpuz tells you the version of the bios so make sure its a later version. If its the same version then don't bother. There are tools you can use to update your bios in windows or the safest way is to update through dos.

TBH I have only just noticed that you are on an AM2 board. There are plenty of good cheap am2 boards out there you really might be better off buying a new mobo because the one you currently have sounds like a right ball ache.

The bios is the same, downloading the driver update instead from gigabyte.

Oh, I did that actually...

Got more than 6000 3dmarks...

Was really quite amazed.

Yha, its under performing, your system is about the same as mine...

I like Intel, but...

Well the fact that it is underperforming has nothing to do with the cpu. There is something not working correctly. So instead of making useless comments why don't you try and help out the OP sort out the issue.

Reboot and defrag the HD then reboot again.
Uninstall the driver for the GXF,reboot.
Clean the registry,defrag the -->registry<-- and reboot.
Now install the GFX driver,reboot set the res,reboot and defrag the HD it's self again.

The votages you say your HD have are screwy (perhaps a typo and you ment AMPS rather than VOLTS)...using Vista is never going to be helpful when it comes to drivers even if the said drivers are for Vista.

Vista is not just slower than XP it is a ram hog. The more ram you have the more it will use up to 4GB. At 4GB of ram it uses up almost 25%.
Find a copy of XP insatll it and see how well and much faster your system runs.

I have 2GB of ram...can run all me 3 security programs,leave two web pages open,run six torrents while playing a game and never use more than 59% of my ram according to Asus Probe II.

Thank god, a intel owner is unbiased. Thank you!
Edit: Yha I meant amps.

So many errors...

Who's brilliant idea was it to have a registry on windows in the first place?

Hard to say what your problem is, but your specs should be doing much better. My roommate is using pentium 4 570 (can't remember if it is 3.8 or 3.6ghz) with an 8800GT and he can play Gears of War and Quake Wars with high settings @ 1680x1050 and get smooth frame rates.


Try out some of zoldude's suggestions, especially remove any video drivers you currently have and then reinstall newest forceware drivers. Good luck.

Wow, been about 45 minutes, still finding broken registry entries...

Lol, I know.

ZZZzzz....

Don't forget that your 6800 and 9600 aren't running the same code. The 6800 can't run DX10, it would run in DX9 mode which is faster the last time I looked. If you put your 9600 at the EXACT same settings as the 6800, I would guess it would be faster.

If we are talking about 3DMark 06, something is definitely not right. What are the individual scores?

*sounds* like a power issue... even though the 6800 should use more power if I'm not mistaken. Other suggestion: get a *real* motherboard. Being attached to a piece of technology is irrational.

-mcg

No change!
Absolutely NO change!

So, I'm left with two options:

Bad PSU
or
Bad Video card.

Wouldn't either of them cause a complete failure?

You are aware that both the Mac machine AND the windows machine were hacked in that contest. Only the Linux laptop wasn't penetrated. In the mac they got in using Safari and the Mac firewall wasn't turned on. On the Windows, they used Adobe Flash to provide a door into the Windows box....Windows firewall was on. Looks like both exploits will ultimately be proven to be "cross platform"

Actually, a 6800 doesn't use as much power as you'd expect.

Are there any significant background processes running? How much free ram do you have? Can you possibly do a reinstall of windows?

The antivirus isn't actually doing anything, right? At idle, what is your CPU usage?