I have an MSI K9A Platinum board

I am showing very low scores on 3dmark with my new 8800gts, I have been told its some settings in my bios, I need some advice to get the potential from this card,,, not lookig to oc. here are links to my cpu-z info...
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=fdwzvc&s=3
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=141tfma&s=3
Ive been told I need to change the ht link to 1000mhz or 1gz.. any help from someone who knows this board well?
OS: Win XP Pro SP2 64 Bit
Board: MSI K9A Platinum Crossfire ATI 3200 Chipset Bios ver 1.8
RAM: 4GIG Patriot Extreme DDR2 800MHz
CPU: AMD Athlon 6400+ 64x2 3.2 GHz
Hard drives: (2) WD Caviar 250 GB
Graphics cards: (1) XFX 8800GTS (G92) 512mb
PSU: Antec TruePower Quattro 850 watt
Burners: (2) Sony/Nec 7170A
Chassis  Gigabyte 3D Aurora Tower
Sound Card: Creative labs X-Fi SoundBlaster Xtreme Gamer

Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 31-May-08, 22:07:32
Go to BIOS, "Cell Menu", locate "HT Link Speed" and change it from "Auto" to "1GHz"
hey BOSSKILLER  been awhile, does everything else look in order? ( from the screen shot links I posted)

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    Second important point: I never used RAID. I did use VIA 2.20e SATA/RAID driver disk when installing Windows XP to the old computer.
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    4) to uninstall the Anti-Virus software (Avira Antivir).
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