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Excuse me if this is the wrong place to post this concern, but I am concerned with my system and its performance running certain games. I do not get the FPS that I "should" be getting with the hardware I have. I just bought a Geforce 9800 GT, ups from my ATI 9800 All in wonder. I was hoping this would solve my bad FPS rate in games like World of Warcraft and Battlefield 2 but it didn't. I have ruled out ram because I currently have 1gig and I can't imagine more would fix this problem. My processor is an Intel 3.0 hyperthreading. I consider my computer to be sufficient enough to display smooth FPS in my games. I have friends who have similar systems as mine and run WoW at 45fps while i run it at 20fps. Also have played around with the in-game settings quiet a bit as well. I feel as if its a problem with either my hardware or Windows itself. If anyone has any suggestions it would be greatly appreciated

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A compact troubleshooting guide that follows up on and : poor FPS on a system that should run games smoothly most often comes from three things — driver leftovers or wrong drivers after a GPU swap, power/connection or BIOS/chipset mismatches, or a thermal/CPU bottleneck. A quick way to tell which is happening is to watch CPU and GPU load and temperatures while running a game: low GPU use with high CPU use points at a CPU/mobo or background-CPU issue; high GPU use with low CPU use points at the GPU/driver side.

Recommended, safe diagnostic steps to follow in order:

  1. Remove old video drivers completely and reinstall the latest official drivers (use a driver-clean tool if available).
  2. Update motherboard chipset drivers and consider a BIOS update only after reading the board vendor notes.
  3. Verify power: confirm all required PCIe power plugs are seated and the PSU can supply the card under load.
  4. Monitor temps and clock speeds during gameplay (thermal throttling will reduce FPS). Clean fans and check heatsink contact if temps are high.
  5. Reseat the card, try another slot if available, and if possible test the GPU in a different PC or try a different GPU in this machine to isolate hardware.

Also check Windows power plan (High Performance), disable unnecessary overlays/antivirus during testing, and ensure DirectX/runtime files are current. BIOS/chipset mismatches — the point raised about the motherboard — are a common root cause, so verify the board’s PCI/PCIe configuration and vendor updates before assuming other faults.

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what kind of mobo do you have?

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