Bad performance on a good machine? Why?

Hi,
I think I may be getting bad performance out of my rig.

Here are my system specs;
AMD X2 6000+ 3.0ghz
EVGA Nvidia 9600gt 512mb gDDR3
2 GB Samsung PC2-6400 DDR 800
7200 rpm Samsung 80GB sata HDD
Asus m3n78-vm board
OCZ PC power and cooling 500 watt PSU
-Updated with current drivers, CPU-Z / Memtest86+ / System temperatures all check out fine.

I ran 3dmark06, and got 93328.

I also get low performance when I play games such as COD4, and any Steam-Source games. On avg. I get 31-55FPS in COD4, and in source games 50-80FPS. Core temps for the card never get any higher than idle, other than a few degrees, which is on avg. 55deg.


Thank-you for helping. Any help at all is appreciated.

whats your resolution?

Hi,
I play at 1440x900, which is my native desktop resolution. It's a V7 LCD widescreen monitor, which is supposed to be pretty decent for gaming. Whenever I play any games, I get stuttering or hitching, and usually it's enough to completely ruin the game. My 3dmark score just seemed a bit low, and I know it varies from each individual machine, but shouldn't it be much higher?

er.. I guess i'll just take it to a computer repair shop. Any more suggestions?

looks about right. why not oc to achieve better fps.

Or, it could be that your playing games which are dynamic and not videos which are static. Look, my system chugs sometimes, it happens. Your motherboard is fine, they either work or they don't meaning the damn thing will lock up/freeze or just not start if it is defective. That said you could use more RAM it should help with loading data in the games, I recommend this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820231209

It is at a great price and is one of the fastest kits out there, and takes the crown in many instances for the best DDR2 on the market.

How do you think I feel with my $550 investment? I feel your pain, you just have to make due with what you got. I didn't mean to be condescending, but you did not really give use any information on how it does not perform the way you thought it would.

Spathotan, whats the problem? I have been dealing with fallout 3 problems too and I've got it at a decent state. Also a patch is due at the end of the week.

No issues here with Fallout3. Running Xfired 4850s.

Well I find it weird that you're unsatisfied with your pc...My pc is very similar to yours, except I have a 4850, and I've been extremely satisfied with its performance...and I'm using it on a 24" monitor