Fraps Seriously Kills my FPS

Hey guys, I have had this problem for a while and decided to upgrade my pc and try and fix it (I was already going to upgrade it). Pretty much, no matter what game I play, fraps always takes my framerate down by about 30 fps. I have made sure that fraps is supposed to lock at 60 frames, but it drops all the way down to around 25-50. I have done multiple things to try and fix this, I pretty much tried everything fraps has to offer, so im pretty much stuck here now and was hoping you guys could help.

Here are my PC specs, it is obviously a great computer.

HD Radeon 6850 Gigabyte in Crossfire.
16 Gigs of ram. Pretty much all unused (just re-installed windows)
Amd Phenom x6 II 1075 T (6 Cpu's) 3.0 GHZ
1200 Watt power supply
Fans. :3

I think that's all I need to list, thanks.

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I took off vsync, didn't help. I also made sure EVERY driver was updated and that all the old ones were deleted.

drops all the way down to 25-50, umm, that's kind of a huge range that it drops down to, big difference between 50 and 25... I think you meant 30 instead of 50?

anyways, you didn't mention anything about your hard drives. if you're running everything with 1 single HDD, I'd recommend you get a second one just for fraps raw storage. Trust me if you're recording at high res, it puts major strain on HDD, if you got programs running from the same drive it's not a pretty story.

Also, your x6 (lol 6 cpu's XD ) is it overclocked? if not, you might want to look into that. Last time I checked fraps runs on 1 core, so the higher clock you can get the better it will run.

fyi you have your cpu as a 6 cpu, its 6 cores not cpu's.

i second the overclock and second hard drive.

I've heard if you record to a different HDD than the one the game/OS is on, it won't be nearly as bad. I'm sure due to it using the CPU there may be some performance decrease, but this way it wont be trying to write to the same HDD the game is running off of.

I haven't tried this out, so let me know if you do. I'm curios as to what the answer is.

Sorry guys I didn't have my PC for a while. I have 2 harddrives with 1TB in each. 1.5 TB is available for me to use. I run at a high resolution (i always forget the exact resolution, but it's the best for a 200 dollar monitor). Yes I run at 6 cores, not 6 cpu's that was my fault for putting that lol. I also used bandicam, works better so it might just be a fact that fraps kind of sucks. Not to mention I am having serious GPU problems, which might be causing it.