I keep it locked at 30. I only unlocked it to test out performance.

Shot in the dark here...Could it be that the coolnquiet feature is playing games on you? Try disabling it from the BIOS just in case.Regards

I have CQ disasbled in the bios. Does this game not scale well on Athlon's? Would an X850XT PE scale better than my 6800 Ultra with my Athlon?

Based on yours and some other similar posts in the past one has to re-examine this CPU-dependancy theory. As someone stated before FS needs a well balanced system and CPU clock alone is not enough. On the other hand to test how FS9 scales with the clock speed you have to set up a test that minimizes influence of the video card - run FS9 in lower resolution, no clouds, etc.Michael J.WinXP-Home SP2,AMD64 3500+,Abit AV8,Radeon X800Pro,36GB Raptor,1GB PC3200,Audigy 2http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/forum/747400.jpg