I have to agree with lowcar100 and jflo. I just built a budget Celeron D340 2.93ghz using the same HD, sound and video cards, by tomshardware site this should have been a good setup, my Athlon XP2200 ran Bloodlines smoother than this one, a motherboard drivers upgrade helped a bit.... I fortuneately only have 2 games left to play on the pc, I will never stray away from AMD in the future and if I didn't submit a bunch of rebates for this, it would go back. Applications however, open much faster and multitasking is improved. Big deal. Contact one of the game supports, I was sent a link to drivers I didn't find which is odd since I used MSI's tool to check my drivers. Oh, what you gonna do with your AMD 2 gighz cpu and board? ;-)