Enhance game performance

Hello,
I'm not sure where is the correct place to post this topic. I think I'm in the correct place.
First, my system specifications:
- MSI K9N4 SLI
- MSI R4850 512 (A little oced)
- AMD Athlon 64 x2 3600+ @2.5 (oced to 4800+)
- Seagate 160 GB 8 MB cache
- 2 GB RAM DDR2 667 @511
- Windows Vista x64 Ultimate
The "problem" is the following: I'm playing Medal of Honor Airborne and Jericho, both in highest quality. The games performance in general terms is very quickly, the protagonist "walk" normal, no slowdowns, but when the game loaded for the first time I note a frame rate drop that some seconds later disappears and works as should. However when for example, I'm entering in new areas, a new frame per seconds drop is noted again.
Running FRAPS in MOH Airborne show a average FPS of 25 and I think it's low!
So, two questions:
1) This motherboard supports only x8 speed PCIE ports. Is this the reason for the FPS drop? Or this affect only a little?
2) I'm going to buy more memory, two modules of 1 GB each one. The system will be equiped with 4 GB in total. Maybe the games performance are being affected by the memory because Vista needs to read hard disk paging file?
Thanks!

Thanks for the replies.
What do you mean with sounds problems? The sound works well.
The PSU is CoolerMaster Real Power Pro 550 Watts.
I'm using Catalyst 8.7 final version. Unfortunately 8.8 doesn't work in my system even with my old card (x1550). When I load Windows CCC.exe close due to problems. Formating doesn't solve the problem so it's a bug from ATI. Maybe 8.9 will fix the issue as others users are having the same problem as me.
What can I do to enhance game performance?
I installed Alone in the Dark and it's playable, but when fire or explosions appear, a frame drop is noted
I'm playing this game in high quality too.

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