[Solved] Q9650 + gtx 295 + p45 = bottleneck????

I'm running Windows 7. Playing NBA 2k10 and Modern Warfare 2 for now.

MW2
Res 1920x1080 on 37'
AA 16
Getting FPS in the 40s

Just felt like it should be higher. I may be expecting too much.

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would I see any gain by throwing a GTX 260 in the case as well to do physix or would that be overkill alongside the gtx 295. I already own the 260 so wouldn't cost anything...

would that make a difference?? gaming at 1080p is gaming at 1080p regardless isn't it?? And I'm not being smart@ss bout it.. asking for real...

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One thing you can do is turn the eye candy off and see if your FPS goes up and drop the resolution to see if that brings the FPS up. If neither does then the GPU is definitely not slowing things down.

Hi, i know this says "SOLVED" already but here is the deal. Your expectation is a bit reaching. When games say high or maximum settings, that does not include settings for AA and AF. Playing MW2 (not much more taxing than COD4) at 1920 is going to look great and play great with your setup at maximum in-game graphics settings. Turning on AF shouldn't cause barely a hit, you should still get over 60 fps.

However, when turning on high level AA the 295 simply cannot handle this, and many other high end games. Remember, the 295 is simply 2x 275's and while Nvidia does decent AA, they've always had performance problems beyond 4x.

If you drop down to 4x or 2x AA, you will get the performance you are expecting. Are you losing much by doing this? Not really because you are already playing at a high resolution which mitigates aliasing to a degree on its own. Simply put, there is no reason for you to be running 16x AA, and certainly no reason to expect that 16x AA would not cause a horrific performance drop. I'm surprised that you get 40fps with that on.

Well turned off all of my eye candy and just let the in-game setup do the 4x. I was getting into the 140fps and such in different scenes. Also I ran the PCmark Vantage and getting 19924 as my score. After comparing to other benchmarks with same setup I seem to be getting what I should. Thanks to everyone for suggestions and time on this thread. I'm going to quit maximizing and ENJOY!!