Is this the performance I should be expecting?

[diggƒreak]

I thought I could suck a bit more life out of this build with some recent upgrades.
Here are my specs.

Athlon 64 3500+ Venice @ stock 2.2Ghz
2GB DDR RAM @ 2T Dual Channel (A GeiL and a Corsair Value Kit)
2 7200RPM SATA one (I think) hard drives
eVGA 512mb 9800GT stock
ABIT KN8 Nforce-4
Onboard Sound

In TF2 at max settings 16xAA 16xAF at 1440x900 I get 10-20 FPS in heavy firefights. Even when I turn of AA and AF that only goes up to 20 something. Is this expected? I'm building a new system in 8 months. Any suggestions?

 

[Stardusted]

Your cpu is really holding you back. I mean really.

 

[covertash]

If you can, try to overclock it. Source based games are generally more CPU intensive so any bump in frequency generally yields better results. Good luck!