Horrible Performance - Help !

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Here's my system specs

AMD 3800+ X2
Asrock 939 Dual Sata 2 Motherboard bios 1.2 (official)
2 GB (2x1024) OCZ dual channel pc-3200 DDR 400 Platinum ram (2-3-2-5)
BFG Nvidia 6800 GT OC (84.20 forceware drivers)
300GB Maxtor Sata 2 HDD
Windows XP MCE 2005
No overclocking

I am having absolutly terrible performance in bench mark tests.
In 3dmark 2006 for example im getting no more then 10 fps in all of the game tests and in the CPU tests im literally getting less then 1 fps

Something is seriously wrong, and im not sure where to look first to fix my problem

Anyone have any ideas? (short of reinstalling the whole OS)

Thanks
 
What kind of scores are you getting in 3Dmark06? If i remember correctly, 05 and 06 really test your rig, and even SLI rigs get low FPS.
 
that sounds about right. Futuremark's compare datebase seems to be down though. When 06 first came out, a lot of people were wondering why they were getting 5-15 FPS on the CPU tests.

edit: actually, i think drivers make a difference here also. Some drivers would give better futuremark scores, but not necessarily better "real world" performance.
 
It seems that as soon as i put AA even to 2x, my frames drop considerably in all my games... maybe ill just bite the bullet and reinstall the OS, it has been a long time.

That always seems to fix things
 
Turning AA to 2x will generally really crush performance.

You should expect single digit FPS in 3dmark06 aswell.
 
2xAA means that your video card will render each frame 2 times before moving on to the next, which means better quality, but far less performance. Depending on what game you are playing 2xAA can really strain your video card. I also have a 6800gt. what resolutions are you playing on? and if yours is agp make sure its running at 8x.
 
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