Ill keep this short, Ive fiddled with my HW lately and discovered its actually vastly underperforming.

I tested a friends computer with specs seen below, it yielded 500+ fps in Grizzly Hills on lowest gfx settings and 100+ fps with graphics set close to the highest values. This was with a low-end graphics card.
i7-920
4gb value ram, dual channel
Geforce GTS240 (costs 150$ or so)
traditional platter hard drive

Compare this to my computer (with specs seen below), I get 119 fps at the same location with every setting at its absolute minimum. I forgot to turn off antialiasing in the screenshot below and it has 4 fps less. All addons and even sound was disabled.
i7-980x
6gb 1600mhz cl7 ram (triple channel)
Radeon 5970 gpu
raid-0 intel ssd's

Pretty much to conclude, my performance is trumphed by a computer at 1/3 of the cost bought over a year ago. The difference is pretty large as the older computer is several times faster


My performance: