All,
What can I say - so many responses.
Averygpfan - BIOS settings are 1.67mhz
Morbid - Have added two internal fans a while back to no avail.
Beardless2 - Very interested if you've any more info on the reg edit
I've moved the soundcard acceleration down one notch but without success.
The one thing I've found frustrating is that even though the MSI Ti4200 states it has fast writes with these switched on the intro movie & sound is flawless whereas with it switched off it is very stuttered.
As one of those annoying (non experienced) people who plays with the BIOS settings I was wondering if anyone knows of an excellent site to give the settings recommended required for both motherboards and Video cards. (Other than the manufacturers ones as these prove fruitless)
Thanks again all - I've just gone back to 30.82 from NVidia as this is their last WHQL release but still no luck. Looks like (yet another) rebuild...<sigh>
AMD Athlon XP2000+
512MB DDR
GeForce Ti4200 64mb
Creative Audigy soundcard
DirectX 9.0
NVidia 40.xx drivers (latest from www.guru3d.com)