Well, you guys are my last resort. I've contacted Asus and Seagate and they can't/won't help me out. I just put $1100 into a new machine, built it from the ground up. It's an AMD Athlon 3500+ on an Asus A8R32MVP Deluxe, with an ATI x1900xt, Seagate SATA II 3 g/s HDD, and two 1gb sticks of G.Skill ram with heatspreaders.
First problem (from whence I think all others are stemming...) is that my HDD is only showing up with an Ultra ATA 133 transfer rate, now isn't that about a third what it should be!? Secondly, I'm getting about 20-25 fps in FEAR and Oblivion. What makes me think that it is related to the HDD thing is because initial loading makes fps drop to the single digits. I'll walk outside in Oblivion, and until I shake the mouse around a few times I get about 5 fps.
I've updated my bios, which helped a bit and I have the lastest Catalyst drivers, but the only way I could tell was my 3dmark06 score went up about 400 points...to a whopping 4400...everyone else's tests I've seen on a very similar system have been at least 6500, what did I do wrong?? It was even with no anti-aliasing! And the reviews from anand of my board with a 4000+ put it at a score of 9000!!! Any and all help/advice is greatly appreciated, I've been tearing my hair out over this for about 3 weeks now, and I'd just like to get the most from my investment!!
First problem (from whence I think all others are stemming...) is that my HDD is only showing up with an Ultra ATA 133 transfer rate, now isn't that about a third what it should be!? Secondly, I'm getting about 20-25 fps in FEAR and Oblivion. What makes me think that it is related to the HDD thing is because initial loading makes fps drop to the single digits. I'll walk outside in Oblivion, and until I shake the mouse around a few times I get about 5 fps.
I've updated my bios, which helped a bit and I have the lastest Catalyst drivers, but the only way I could tell was my 3dmark06 score went up about 400 points...to a whopping 4400...everyone else's tests I've seen on a very similar system have been at least 6500, what did I do wrong?? It was even with no anti-aliasing! And the reviews from anand of my board with a 4000+ put it at a score of 9000!!! Any and all help/advice is greatly appreciated, I've been tearing my hair out over this for about 3 weeks now, and I'd just like to get the most from my investment!!