Yet another fps problem...

Hi all, I know you probably get this a lot but I keep having fps problems and I was just wondering if anyone could help out.

I've been to and tried any/all links I could find to fix it but I can't seem to figure out what the problem is

System
OP: Windows XP Home Edition (5.1, Build 2600)
Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz (2 CPUs)
Memory 1536MB RAM

Display
Device
Name: Radeon x700 Series
Current Display Mode: 1440 x 900 (32 bit) (60Hz)

Um, I guess that's all you should need for specs really, as far as more detail on the problems...

In CS (1.6) I seem to get a very unsteady 98 and below, 98 being a peak from when I'm in a game with a low amount of people and not doing anything. In W.o.W. I can only get around 40fps and under just standing around with everything set to performance (draw distant/object both seem to really lower it to under 20).

Also, one other thing, this happened after the fact, those both have been problems for a while, but I installyed another hard drive but whenever I try to access stuff on my F: drive it will work for a little bit but then lag my computer completely. Also, it disappears a lot.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

Due to the gnarliness of the color you chose to type with, I couldn't read more than about 5 words before my head started pounding, then I threw up. Please post using a legible typeface.

 

its probably your GPU its not very fast to start with never mind that most games are optimized for nVida