What does 173 mean???

Your system's overall grade is: 173 Your system does not need any hardware upgrades yet.
The component with the lowest rating is: Processor Speed -- 128
If you're upgrading your system, you should upgrade this component first. NOTE: If this component is 3D Video Speed, you will need to upgrade either the processor or the video card, based on the bottleneck information given later in this report.

TestResults

Processor SpeedThis PC: 3200.75 DacriMarks
Memory SpeedThis PC: 992.00 MB/sHard
Disk SpeedThis PC: 21.66 MB/s

Bottleneck Information

Your memory is a little too fast for your processor. You may wish to upgrade your processor for better performance.
Your hard disk is a little too slow for your processor. You may wish to upgrade your hard disk for better performance.

System Information

Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz 1993 MHz
Number of Processors: 1
Processor Supports: MMX, SSE, SSE2
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
Free Physical Memory: 456 MB
Total Physical Memory: 767 MB
Total Disk Space: 37.0 GB
Free Disk Space: 20.0 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6200
DirectX Version: 9.x
Bits Per Pixel: 32
Printer: Auto HP OfficeJet G85 on GATEWAY_SYSTEM
Network Card: Wireless USB Card

can anyone explain this to me? can i upgrade my processor without getting another mother motherboard? if so, name of processor. ijust got the 6200 not knowing i had a 478 socket motherboard. i only knew that it was agp

"Your memory is a little too fast for your processor. You may wish to upgrade your processor for better performance."

lol at this.

What are you trying to do? Play a certain game?

You should be thinking in buying a new pc because upgrading that one would be meaningless.

You can upgrade your video card into a better one, but the processor will bottleneck the new card and you wont see a big difference.

You should be thinking in buying a new pc because upgrading that one would be meaningless.

You can upgrade your video card into a better one, but the processor will bottleneck the new card and you wont see a big difference.

wklzip

strategy type games
but i can just start from scratch and keep the hard-drive, cd rom, and floppy disk?

but i can just start from scratch and keep the hard-drive, cd rom, and floppy disk?Arthuriusx6

Yep, you can keep those devices. I'd look at getting a bigger hard-drive though, they're as cheap as chips nowdays

That Pentium 4 won't cut it for strategy games like Command and Conquer, Supreme Commander and Starcraft II.

Start from scratch and build a new PC (keep the operating system disc, KB/M, DVD-RW, floppy and monitor).