Yeah 175.19 (nintendog, those are latest and I have SP1 and all other hotfixes and updates)

Comodo Firewall (tried disabling it as well)

See the things that make this odd for me are:

- All other games work ok

- TF2 worked fine with the 7800 on XP

- I get the SAME framerate in TF2 on both LOW and HIGH settings

I had XP with a 7800GTX, could get TF2 up to constant 60FPS
Now have Vista with a 8800GT.

COD4 can get over 100FPS on low and stays at around 90FPS (again, on low)
TF2 stays around 15-40FPS on both very very low and very very high settings

Every other game seems to play smooth as butter except TF2 (haven't tried other
souce games tho) (Tried COD4, Devil May Cry, Mass Effect, Eve Online, UT3)

Is there a problem with Source and Vista?

(edit: v-sync off, all app controlled settings in drivers)

Well I doubt it capped it but recently I formated my HD, installed a 8800GT OC from a 7800GTX OC
I went from XPSP2 to VistaSP1

All non-needed services and programs are off, usually run at about 600MB used RAM @ startup

Before the upgrade on my 7800GTX I could get COD4 and TF2 to and over 100 FPS (on low and med
settings respectively)

Now even at a low resolution with everything off on TF2 and seemingly ever other game I can GET up
to like 60FPS but am usually around the 30FPS zone.. no matter what.. was fine before upgrade

Benchmarks good, temps good everything SEEMS fine

Athlon X2 x64 2.0GHz
Vista x86 SP1
2GB DDR2 400 (PC3200)
3GB Pagefile (non-sys partition)
Defraged with PerfectDisk
200GB SATA
8800GT 512MB factory overclock
Latest drivers (set to app controlled)

The only things I know for sure is I wanna upgrade my RAM, and the MoBo is PCIe 1.0, card is 2.0

Any thoughts on what to try?

Alright so,
Currently in my 4 year old computer I have a 7800GTX OC, Athlon X2 64 2.0GHz and a 650W PSU 120mm fan for back exhaust, 80mm fan for intake and a stock heatsink/fan for the CPU. Cool N Quiet disabled.

As of now, everything runs a bit hot.. but with no noticible side effects (no crashes or artifacts)
While writing this:
CPU: 35c,
Core1: 50c,
Core2: 44c,
GPU: 54c,
Mobo: 35c

During a test of running COD4 my GPU got up to 100c one time.. don't remember what caused it but that caused my now wanting to manage the heat better in my case (ASUS Vento (big red steel thing))
At load the GPU tops around 80c.

Right now I have a 8800GT and a PCI Slot cooler en route to my house via UPS ground.
I believe that the 7800GTX is overheating due to it's age and could just benefit from me taking off the heatsink, dusting and reapplying some after market thermal paste.

I'm hoping to see a noticable decrease in my tempreature overall by exchanging the GPU and adding a PCI cooler.

Now..
With my AMD X2 64 Socket 939 2.0GHz and 400MHz DDR2 kind of showing it's age I'm wanting to start overclocking everything. Various sites have shown my Manchester chip and Foxconn motherboard as both yielding very good OC results but with my heat level where they are now I'm reluctant to begin the process.

So finally the point of all of this long explainations:

Would a PCI Slot cooler a few slots below my 8800GT as well as an additional PCI Slot cooler ABOVE the GPU in a PCIe x1 slot to help dissipate the CPUs temp.. along with a new layer of AC5 Thermal Paste on a new AC Heatsink (alluminum, not copper) or would that just be overkill.

Would the two PCI coolers be helpful? Should I just say no to the PCIe x1 slot cooler and get new thermal paste and heatsink?

What temps should I try to strive to before beginning the overclock process?

Any input on my thoughts are appreciated.

Items referenced:
case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811173003
pci cooler: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835888309
paste: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835100007
heatsink: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186010

Currently have 4 sticks of DDR2 400 - PC3200
512MB Each resulting in 2GB

I want to swap 2 of the 512's with 2 sticks of 1024 resulting in 3072MB

It's Dual Channel, my MoBo supports up to 8GB

Will that work?
(before why, it's the only test I fail for yougamers.com recc specs for AoC)

EDIT:
Would using a 4GB flash drive w/ ReadyBoost be equivilant?

Graphics card imo.

Why would you be getting a 8800gt? Why not something else.

Also, what are you gonn do with your 7800 gtx?
rik666

I wonder how you would put an Intel CPU on a socket AM2 motherboard.charrr1234

Also, just so you know, there still are not very many games out there that work with DX10 or are just DX10 only...I play under Windows XP and I think the performance I see in my games (visually) is pretty damn good, especially since I went from a 17" flat screen to a 22" with 97% true color gamut - my games look awsome in DX9.

I'll eventually change over to Vista when it becomes main stream/required, but I don't see that happening for quite a long time...neatfeatguy

EDIT:

But honestly DDR2 400 (dual channel) is fine for now? it won't hurt my framerate?