Recent content by Ain ._.

Just to verify for my own sanity before I format and do a fresh Vista install again: My situationally low FPS problem is definitely caused by the PCIe x1 issue?

Apparently I thought it was a given that I isntalled my Chipset drivers, but upon further look it appears that Asus doesn't have a Windows 7 x64 chipset driver for my motherboard. They have one for every other revision of the M3A78, just not this one. Would a format and fresh run of Vista...

No options like that in my BIOS.

Through an accomodation at work I can get an i7 960(i think) and some random sli capable gfx card from intel for about 200$, I may just have to bite the bullet in a check or two and do that...

Was in my original post, my bad :(

MOBO is fairly old, ill have to upgrade, which means a CPU upgrade too. :(

Tried my 4850, same issue. I tried OEM driver disc for both cards and I tried latest driver revision. CMOS has been reset, not really as a troubleshooting means but more of an oops i broke the bios kinda means. Power is plugged in on the GPU, to both 6 pin plugs. I even tried changing...

CPU-Z and ATI Hardware Information all show the same thing. I can almost assuredly tell you that my FPS in Crysis (1) on medium should not be exceeding 80 to 100 when nothing is going on then dropping to under 10 fps when it has to load some lush foliage or character models. I have also...

750W Antec PSU. I'll try airing out the slot in a second here.

Asus boards and their options are somewhat foreign to me. I flashed the BIOS to the newest release, and that didn't do the trick. I tried upping the PCIe from 100 to 115, to no avail. Here's where im a little stumped, as voltage and such is sort of a blank area for me. My board only has...

A little background: CPU: AMD Phenom 9600 @ 2.3ghz RAM: 4GB Kingston? 1066 memory. GPU: ATI HD5870 Motherboard: Asus M3A78-CM. Previously I had the same setup with an ATI HD 4850, and I was ALWAYS disappointed with my performance when gaming. When I was playing Crysis(for example) I...