Recently, my friend and I both downloaded the final fantasy XI benchmark program to see how our computers would score. My friend has a Pentium 4 1.7ghz computer with 256mb of ram and a 64mb agp geforce 2 card. He scored a 3000. He let me borrow his card, because my card is junk and I tested mine. I have an Athlon 2700 and 512mb of ram. I only scored a 1900 and the video on the test looked terrible. What would be causing my computer to run so bad? I have all of the latest drivers for the card.

I ran that thing on mine (AMD xp2600 2.09gig with a gig of ram and an asus v9180 64meg gforce4 video card). If I run it low res, I get over 3000, but at hi res, only 2150. Wonder what res your buddy ran it at?

have you installed the AGP drivers for your mobo? If not that would slow things down a bit.

When I run that benchmark on my system at high res I get 3300 and at low rest I get 4133 :-) and I was running 58 processes at the time of benchmark My System Specs MSI KT3-V Motherboard ( LAN Version ) Windows XP Professional Edition ( Completely Updated ) Jeantech 400wat PSU ( Power Supply Unit ) Athlon XP 2400+ Thoroughbred B @ 2.03GHZ 45C idle, 48c full load, Average 46C Cool Master Aero 7+ ( Full Speed @ 3500rpm ) 1,536MB ( 1.50GB ) DDR PC2100 Soundblaster Audigy Player 2x Floppy Drives 1x Lite-On CD-RW Drive 52x24x52x 1x LG CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo Drive Excalibur Radeon 9600 Pro 128mb 1x 80mm On top of case Blowing air out 1x 80mm on back of case blowing air in 1x 80mm in front bottom of PC ( inside ) blowing air in 1x fan blower on a PCI slot 80GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache 16GB 5500RPM 512KB Cache NTL 600K Broadband Connection 3DMark 2001 SE 10,617 Points 3DMark 2003 2,465 Points

Thanks for the replies, I actually think it's my motherboard...I have a Biostar m7vit pro. When I bought the motherboard and everything I had a Radeon 9700 3d card and it wouldn't work because it said I didn't have enough resources even after I took literally everything out of it except for the HD and the card. Could anyone recommend a good motherboard for an athlon 2700 processor and the Radeon? I've already got a network and sound card so I don't need them built into the motherboard. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Price isn't really an issue, I just want something that'll work hehe.

I'm running an MSI 6590 KT4 Ultra with 2800 Barton and Geforce 5900 Ultra. Had the mobo for a year now with no problems. There are probably dozens of mobos equally good for the price but I've been very pleased with it. Overclocking is dead easy, and it supports AGP8x, 5.1 sound, bluetooth (wireless), USB 2.0, firewire and 400Mhz RAM. It does have onboard sound but I'm not sure you can buy a mobo without that these days. I think it retails for about £80 in the UK now. And it looks cool in red :o) Like I said though, there are loads of similar boards. My friend bought an Asus A7N8X (virtually identical spec) at the same time, and that has been faultless as well. I guess it just comes down to whether you have any brand allegiance....