Bottlenecked?

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DarthCat

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I recently upgraded from an X1900XTX to a Sapphire 3870... but was sorely disappointed to find I was getting only a very minor performance increase. Furthermore, I notice some stuttering and general lack of smoothness while playing games (Call of Duty 4- @ 1600x1200 and max settings- and Crysis - @ 1280x1024 and medium/high settings- in particular).

I had to wonder, all told, if it was possible the the rest of my computer, whose parts are really beginning to show their age, could be responsible for the rather lackluster performance. The specs are as follows:

Athlon X2 3800+ (Socket 939)
BFGTech Nvidia nForce 4 Ultra motherboard
2gb DDR (400?) Ram - Kingston & A-Data
Corsair HX520 PSU
Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer
Various and sundry HDs (1.1TB)

So. Upgrade? Try a clean install of Windows? Other suggestions? Thanks in advance!
 
is your CPU overclocked? Try OC'ing it, if its not already.

Also, the card is new, so I'm guessing it needs a few driver revisions still.
 
I know there are going to be more driver revisions, yes, but others are already reporting much better frame rates than I'm seeing. (Oh, for what it's worth, I'm using the most recent drivers from ATI's website, NOT the ones that came on the disc.)

Also, overclocking seems like a reasonable thing to try - I know that overclocking usually involves tinkering with your RAM timings as well, but I don't know what all that entails. Could anyone enlighten me on that (is there a guide that I'm missing? I saw the one for C2D/Q in the overclocking forum, but...)? Thanks!
 
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