Like I said, this whole thread is epic fail, in my opinion... Everytime the thread starter hits a brick wall on his arguments, he starts calling people trolls.

Talking about low FPS, you can check this very interesting article from many moons ago.

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/$500_gaming_pc_upgrade/page7.asp

The average FPS all looks similar until you see the minimum FPS in the table down the page! I call this real "smoothness" data...