Could My Lack Of Performance Be A bios Issue?

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eggyhustles

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ECS AMD690GM-M2 AM2 AMD 690G Micro ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ Brisbane 2.1GHz Socket AM2 65W Dual-Core Processor Model ADO4000IAA5DD

2 Kingston HyperX 1GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Desktop Memory Model KHX6400D2/1G

Antec True Power Trio TP3-430 430W ATX12V Power Supply with Three 12V Rails

Western Digital Caviar SE WD1200AAJS 120GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive (main drive)

EVGA 512-P3-N861-AR GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Supported Video Card

Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive(soon to be purchased)

200gb ide hd..(slave)

Heres how the bios is set up..

Standard CMOS features
IDE channel 0 Master ->Maxtor 200gb ide drive(slave drive)
channel 2 Master -> western digital 120gb sata drive(main drive)

Advanced Bios Features
Hard disk boot priorities
Ch2 -> western digital(main drive)
Ch0 -> maxtor(slave)

CPU Internal Cache -> enabled
CPU external cache -> enabled
First boot device -> harddisk/ 2nd -> CD-rom

OS Select For D-ram>64 [OS2]

Advanced Chipset Features

1. D-Ram Config
timing mode -> auto
SPD checksum restart-> ignore
DQS training control-> skip
CKE basepower down mode-> disabled
CKE base power down-> per channel
MeM clock Tri-stating-> disabled
Memory hole remapping-> enabled
Auto optimize bottom IO-> enabled
Bottom Of UMA D-RAM [31:24] [FC]

2. LDT and PCI bus control
LDT bus width-> auto
LDT bus frequency-> auto

HT drive strengh ->auto
HT reciever comp. ctril -> auto
HTT PLL Control -> high speed

3. IGX config
UMA frame buffer size -> auto
IGX engine Clock -> 400
System bios Cacheable -> disabled

Intergraded peripherals

1. South Onchip IDE
IDE Dma transfer access -> enabled
Onchip IDE channel 10 -> enabled
Primary Master p10 -> auto
Primary slave -> auto
Primary UDMA master -> auto
Primary UDMA slave -> auto
ATi sata controller -> enabled
Ati sata type -> native IDE
IDE HDD block mode -> enabled

2. Soth Onchip Pci
Ati azalia audio -> disabled (think it's because i have a creative soundcard?)
SB600 spread spectrum -> enabled
usb 2.0 controller -> enabled
usb controller -> enabled
usb legacy -> enabled
usb mouse -> enabled
usb storage -> enabled
Onbaord LAN -> enabled
Lan Boot ROM -> disabled

3. super Io Device
onboard FDC controller -> enabled
onboard serial port 1 [3f8/irq4]
onboard parallel port [3f8/irq7]
onboard port mode [spp]
INIT display first [pciex]

Power management
ACPI suspend type [s3(str)]
HDD power down -> disabled
video off [suspend -> off]
video off method [v/h sync + blank]
soft-off [instant off]
ACPI TSDT -> disabled
HPET support -> enabled

PNP/PCI config
Resources controlled by -> [auto(escd)]
pci/vga palette snoop -> disabled

Frequency voltage control

NTP fid control -> auto
NTP vid control -> auto
AMD K8 cool/quiet control -> auto
DIMM voltage adjust [+.10v]
auto detect pci clk -> enabled
Spread sectrum -> disabled
CPU clock-> 200mhz(shouldn't this be higher?)
 
judging by your specs, i'd say it could be your power supply. a 430 watt is nowhere enough to run that hardware. my power supply will only just powerful enough and it s a 580w. id say get a 580-650 watt and see how things go. i wouldn't have said your BIOS will have anything to do with your lack of performance, your BIOS only tells hardware to start up and tell them what speed to run at.
 
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That powersupply is powerful enough to power that system (which isn't too power hungry). What type of performance are we speaking of here? Looking at the specs its by no means a very powerful gaming rig. The CPU for one is pretty slow. What's your 3dmarks score?
 
mine is only a x2 4400 @ 2.53GHz and it pretty fast, only thing i cant do is play crysis on max with sli enabled.
 
the pc is slow..infact it's slower than my old p3 system..and yes its clean..no viruses or spyware..defragged weekly..heres the 3dmark score
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