Piney wrote:
vertical refresh to the highest setting? what?

If you meant this, vertical refresh is only really needed if you have some tearing while gaming, otherwise it does use up a bit of cpu power, though I have a fairly similar build to yours and I can hardly see what kind of game would make you lag...
sorry i meant on, heres the problem:
this quote came from a different forum i posted wrote:
if i go to catalyst Control center there is an option called 3D: there are 5 options on that 3D menu option
1-Standard 2-AA 3-AAmode 4-AF 5-All
now if i put everything on the highes of 1-2-3-4, it runs good, if i click All there are 6 options,
1-Anti-Aliasing
2-Anistropic Filtering
3-Catalyst A.I. "texture filtering"
4-vertical refresh
5-Anti Aliasing Mode
6-OpenGL Settings "Triple buffering"
now if i set those 6 options set high in the All options, it runs slow, but not the first 4 options i mentioned above,
the guy i bought my computer from said that the video card is a bit overclocked, could that be the problem? i hope not,
here are my index scores:
-Processor: 7.6
-Memroy(RAM): 7.6
-Graphics: 7.8
-Gaming Graphics:7.8
-Primary Hard disk: 7.4
the games that made me lagg was warsow "with the highest seting on" even ET made me lagg a bit "with the highest setting on"
could this be might graphic card?