i desided again to put tech above need. so instead of save for a card i dipped into my savings to buy new hardware gear for my pc. however like normal im haven issues. at first the issues was that the old harddrive wasn't reading the new hardware. im upgrading from a intel to a amd and from a radeon card to a Nvidia. ill post the specs later in the post. so after changen the drivers for the harddrive i reinstalled windows but didn't format. well right now things are.. well were running fine but i have a feeling something isn't right. im not seeing the big changes i should be. the new card isn't running far cry at max settings. instead it's forcen me to run at low setting. bull.

and while playing battlefield with in a 2 week of using my new hardware, the game would stop and boot me to the desktop.

total trash. here are the specs

ASUS A8N5X Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 ATX AMD Motherboard

 Supported CPU CPU Socket Type Socket 939 CPU Type Athlon 64 FX/Athlon 64/Athlon X2 FSB 1000MHz Hyper Transport (2000 MT/s) Chipsets North Bridge NVIDIA nForce4 Memory Number of DDR Slots 4x 184pin DDR DDR Standard DDR 400 (PC 3200) Maximum Memory Supported 4GB Dual Channel Supported Yes Expansion Slots PCI Express x16 1 PCI Express x1 2 PCI Slots 3 Other Slots 1x PCI Express x4 slot Storage Devices PATA 2 x ATA100 up to 4 Devices PATA RAID NV RAID 0/1/0+1 JBOD SATA 1.5 Gb/s 4 SATA RAID NV RAID 0/1/0+1 JBOD Onboard Video Onboard Video No Onboard Audio Audio Chipset Realtek ALC850 Audio Channels 8 Channels Onboard LAN Max LAN Speed 10/100/1000Mbps Rear Panel Ports PS/2 2 LPT 1 USB 4x USB 2.0 S/PDIF Out 1x Optical and 1x Coaxial Audio Ports 5 Ports Onboard USB Onboard USB 6x USB 2.0 Physical Spec Form Factor ATX Dimensions 12.0" x 9.6" Features Power Pin 24 Pin

 new card

 eVGA 256-P2-N391-AX Geforce 6800GS 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card -

 AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 1GHz HT 512KB L2 Cache Socket 939 Processor