Gaming Performance Issues

[Nick88]

Hi there. I've recently been having some trouble with my pc getting awful framerates and being generally rubbish whilst playing games so i ran the performance test software.

Benchmark Results
Test Name: This Computer
CPU - Integer Math: 57.6
CPU - Floating Point Math: 286.2
CPU - Find Prime Numbers: 161.7
CPU - SSE/3DNow!: 1293.0
CPU - Compression: 1559.1
CPU - Encryption: 8.5
CPU - Image Rotation: 163.1
CPU - String Sorting: 574.9
Graphics 2D - Lines: 87.3
Graphics 2D - Rectangles: 47.6
Graphics 2D - Shapes: 18.2
Graphics 2D - Fonts and Text: 89.7
Graphics 2D - GUI: 121.7
Graphics 3D - Simple: 768.7
Graphics 3D - Medium: 86.8
Graphics 3D - Complex: 9.1
Memory - Allocate Small Block: 460.6
Memory - Read Cached: 713.4
Memory - Read Uncached: 605.4
Memory - Write: 368.1
Memory - Large RAM: 69.1
Disk - Sequential Read: 33.8
Disk - Sequential Write: 44.1
Disk - Random Seek + RW: 1.8
CD - Read: 7.2
CPU Mark: 345.9
2D Graphics Mark: 259.9
Memory Mark: 163.9
Disk Mark: 288.1
CD Mark: 880.1
3D Graphics Mark: 276.7
PassMark Rating: 329.3
System information: This Computer
CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
Number of CPU: 1
CPU Type: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
CPU Speed: 2813.0 MHz
Cache size: 512KB
O/S: Windows XP (WIN32)
Total RAM: 1023.5 MB.
Available RAM: 669.8 MB.
Video settings: 1280x1024x32
Video driver:
DESCRIPTION: Radeon X1950 Pro
MANUFACTURER: Radeon X1950 Pro
BIOS: 113-AAxxxx
DATE: 12/04/06
Drive Letter: C
Total Disk Space: 111.8 GBytes
Cluster Size: 4.0 KBytes
File system: NTFS

Are these results OK for my pc or should it perform better? Its difficult finding a similar baseline to compare with without paying

[David (PassMark)]

The P4 2.8Mhz is now old and slow. So you can't expect much from it.