FPS issue.

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Drolith

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Start with what essential hardware I am currently running:

Foxconn K8S755A-6ELRS Socket 754 SiS 755 Motherboard
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Socket 754
ZALMAN 600W Power Supply (Modular)
Western Digital Caviar 160GB 7200 RPM SATA
Western Digital Raptor 74GB 10,000 RPM SATA
2x 512mb + 1gb of Corsair Value Select DDR400
HIS Radeon X1950PRO 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X
O/S = XP 32bit SP2 updated.


Problem: My frames per second are not at all what they should be. Examples. Hitman Blood Money (unplayable) Counter-Strike : source (40fps average...drops below 30 when anything happens) and these are with ABSOLUTE LOW settings. Weird thing is I can crank them up to higher resolution and medium/high settings (kind of settings I should run normally) and it stays about the same...its like my FPS is being capped (or bottlenecked) to a point.

Solutions Tried:
Ok I have tried reformatting
Latest Drivers/Updates
Disabled Vsync

The only thing I can think of is the motherboard cause it is the only real new hardware I've installed. It needs updated...the bios on this thing hasn't had a revision sense 2005. I've ran all kinds of benchmarking software and everything seems fine...I can't narrow down the problem.
 
Crank the settings up to max, and throw in a level of AA or two... Hows your performance?

I'm thinking you've got a CPU bottleneck goin on.
 
ok I put it to max with 4xAA and ran CSS video stress test and got : average FPS 43
then I put everything as low as they can go no aa no nothing and ran it: average FPS 44
???
 
Seems like a CPU bottleneck then. If MAXXING the settings only degrade performance by 1fps, then you're clearly limited elsewhere.

I thought the 754 chips performed slightly better than this...
 
Weird thing is 40FPS is really low for CS:S and it's not even that CPU intensive. Anyhow check your memory speed and verify that it's running at DDR400 is my first suggestion.

My second suggestion to check task manager to make sure nothing is eatting up cpu resources. How's cpu temps for your machine? Everything within norm?
 
Yah the memory thing did seem odd cause it seems I remember it being set to 200...So I went and checked and the memory settings is at 200mhz and my benchmark software is saying its PC3200 at DDR-200...so how do I change this without overclocking things? I tried to up the memory itself but 200 was its max. I know nothing about overclocking so I'm not sure where to start on getthing this back to ddr400 speed.

btw nothing is eating up resources and temps are normal.
 
Drolith said:
Yah the memory thing did seem odd cause it seems I remember it being set to 200...So I went and checked and the memory settings is at 200mhz and my benchmark software is saying its PC3200 at DDR-200...so how do I change this without overclocking things? I tried to up the memory itself but 200 was its max. I know nothing about overclocking so I'm not sure where to start on getthing this back to ddr400 speed.

btw nothing is eating up resources and temps are normal.
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Try running CPU-Z to check the memory:
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

The memory tab should read 200MHz (remember that DDR400 actually runs at 200MHz but due to technical reasons we won't go through here the memory is 'effectively' running at 400MHz)

The only other suggestion I have for you is to download 3dmark2006 and see if your CPU and GPU scores are comparable to the norm. Otherwise I think we're pretty much stumped as to what your problem is unfortunately...
 
yah I use CPUz just wasn't sure what to look for. Under Memory, type: DDR size is correct, Channels is correct, Frequency is 100mhz? FSB: DRAM cpu/22, timings are good. IT also calls my memory DDR200 on bootup...

Downloading the 3dmark06 will get back to ya on that.
 
Your RAM is being run at half speed it seems... Go into the BIOS and make sure your FSB is set to 200, your RAM divider is set to 2:1 or whatever setting takes it closer to 400mhz.
 
Well I know the FSB is at 200, as for any dividers/multipliers...I can't find any in bios so I think I'm screwed.
 
Drolith said:
Well I know the FSB is at 200, as for any dividers/multipliers...I can't find any in bios so I think I'm screwed.
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Can you take some digital pictures of your bios CPU/FSB pages for us?
 
appears to be a discontinued product pictures would be handy as stated in other post.cpu not helping matters either
 
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