What would you do?

[Torps]

The thing is guys the latest cards are PCI-E X 16 2.0. MY mobo supports 1.0 not 2.0 so no matter what I will need a new mobo for a the better graphics card, if and when I update the processor I will need a new mobo and my current mobo does not support both DDR2 and DDR3 which some do.(Save money on memory and use my DDR2 800)

I will mess with the settings but the thing is the 1950xtx does not produce the halo effect for more then a few seconds once every full moon. I play other demanding games so the card cant handle those.

I know about the AV, anti spy stuff, registry cleaners etc; my system is clean, I run it everyday I even have Diskeeper 2008 pro premier which helps substanitally with performance in and out of games. Diskeeper helped with my frame rates about 10-15 fps+ by optimizing file placement on the HD. My boot time for XP is 20 seconds. I got this thing really tricked out so to speak, I just feel either the card or the drivers are not up to par. Catalyst 7.4 is what I am using, I have tried everything else and my frame rates dropped. I have my "Storage Drive" everything is on there, only thing on my c drive is the OS and programs, thats it.

Thank you guys for the advice. If you have any other ideas please throw them my way.