Bottlenecked GPU?

I play at 1280x1024 and I don't really play many other games. I play MW2 and it seems to run smooth but it doesn't look all that fantastic even with everything maxed...

WOW, HD5870 at 1280x1024 is too overkill. You can maxed out everything with only a single GTS250...

Well, low resolution is more CPU demanding than GPU.
How many sticks are installed on your system? just one? or two?
If you only use 1 stick of RAM then add another 1 stick so they will work on dual channel mode, make your system faster...

Something else I noticed but I'm not to sure of is that only 2 of my CPU's cores are running? Looking at this PC Wizard thing it says only 2 of the cores are running and the other 4 are at a constant 0%

Yeah I just purchased this CPU today so it's still on warranty.

What exactly do you mean post a screenshot of my cpuz?

download CPUID and it will give details of your hardware installed. Tjis will give us a better understanding of the installed hardware

But I still believe that:

1 - Too low of a resolution to get anything better than the FPS yoru getting now
2 - The Ram is struggling with your CPU and GPU, this needs to be upgraded to 2x2GB Sticks of DDR 800mhz

CPU-Z version 1.55.2

Processors
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Number of processors 1
Number of threads 2

APICs
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Processor 0
-- Core 0
-- Thread 0 0
-- Core 1
-- Thread 0 1

Processors Information
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Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 2 (max 6)
Number of threads 2 (max 6)
Name AMD Phenom II X6 1055T
Codename Thuban
Specification AMD Phenom(tm) II X6 1055T Processor
Package Socket AM3 (938)
CPUID F.A.0
Extended CPUID 10.A
Core Stepping PH-E0
Technology 45 nm
Core Speed 2800.2 MHz
Multiplier x FSB 14.0 x 200.0 MHz
HT Link speed 1000.1 MHz
Stock frequency 2800 MHz
Instructions sets MMX (+), 3DNow! (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, x86-64, AMD-V
L1 Data cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 2 x 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 2 x 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L3 cache 6 MBytes, 48-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
FID range 4.0x - 16.5x
Max VID 1.475 V
P-State FID 0x11 - VID 0x06 - IDD 16 (16.5x - 1.475 V)
P-State FID 0xC - VID 0x0E - IDD 15 (14.0x - 1.375 V)
P-State FID 0x6 - VID 0x12 - IDD 12 (11.0x - 1.325 V)
P-State FID 0x10E - VID 0x16 - IDD 9 (7.5x - 1.275 V)
P-State FID 0x100 - VID 0x1A - IDD 6 (4.0x - 1.225 V)



In Task Manager there is only 2 Cores showing.. MY BIOS is up to date. I just remembered I have Crysis so I'm about to start that up and I'll tell you the fps in that.

I've checked there and it's 2 and there's no option to select 6, it stops at 2

http://img684.imageshack.us/i/20347310.jpg/

Did you reset the CMOS when you changed the CPU?

I will try these things now. Thanks guys

No, but for the ones that do removing the battery may not clear the CMOS just reset the time and date.

Either your motherboard is not as backward compatible as it's supposed to be or it's broken or the CPU is faulty or it's all three, take your pick.

The only thing to do is RMA your CPU for another one to make sure the CPU is working fine. If you get a new CPU and it still produces the same details as above, then i think your motherboard is faulty/cannot reconigse the 6 Cores the CPU can allow.

Teh thing is alos, you will have to eventually upgrade your RAM and Mobo. I would start with Mobo, if you have a budget of 50-70$ you would get a half decent Mobo which is defo support by your chip.

Your RAM is old, but would still be supported by a AM2+ Mobo with DDR2 Slots. So effectively you upgrade one thing at a time.

I have another computer I can try it in. I'll chuck it in there as soon as I can and see how that goes. *fingers crossed*