poor framerate on decent machine

[Vynda]

Ive got a amd FX 4100 3.6 GHZ OC'd to 4.4
8gb ram ddr3 133mhz
his 7770.
Im getting unplayable frams for shadow of the colosus 15-24 max
Tales of the abyss will go up and down from 60- to 28ish
even dark cloud will run at 60 fps but randomly will drop down to 30ish for minutes at a time then it will go back up

any sugguestions to improve proformance.

[ItsGreat]

Get a better CPU, bulldozer architecture is very poor at single threaded applications like PCSX2

[Vynda]

What would you suggest me getting then that runs a am3 socket type?

[jesalvein]

piledriver or vishera is considerably better (even if it's not as good as intel's sandy/Ivy/haswell)
apart from that, enable recommened speedhacks, set ee cycle rate to 2, vu cycle stealing to 1 for tales of the abyss or dark cloud.
decrease ee cycle rate & increase vu cycle stealing for SotC

[Vynda]

muuuuchhh better for tales thank you very much