My Specs And FFXIV

i only scored a 600 with my specs so i was wondering if people could tell me what i need to upgrade thank you :).
here are my specs:

Computer: Compaq Presario CQ3240AN Desktop

Processor Processor Brand: AMD
Processor QTY: 1
Processor Type: Athlon II x4 Quad Core
Processor Speed (Ghz): 2.60

Memory Installed RAM (GB): 4
RAM Expandable To (GB): 4

Graphics Card Brand: ATI
Graphics Card Memory (MB): 512
Graphics Card Type: Radeon HD 4350

I think thats all the info i need let me know if u need anything else? Im guesing i need a new graphics card?

My guess is your graphics card is choking you right now. You have a better processor than I, yet I score around the 2k mark, the rest, except the card, is virtually identical.

So you think i should buy a new graphics card?

Well i was checking the graphics card on FFXIV official site and they say u need minimum ATI Radeon HD 2900 so it makes no sense to me. I do know that my HD 4350 is still a lower end graphics card but it still passes the requirements they are recommending its weird.

Well if you know you are willing to upgrade anyway if need be, you can just wait until the game comes out and buy it. Test it on your computer for sure if you truly need to upgrade or not. Plus a new videocard you may be considering might be cheaper in the future since computer hardware gets better.

I think the benchmark program was just to test out if they can trick people into thinking they need to buy better hardware, rather than actually testing their current setup lol.

lol yeah its probably best to wait guess we will see what happens. The way i see it is if my graphics card is better then the min requirements it will work. Screw the stupid benchmark heh.

I ran it in high resolution and got a score of 1696. Is that even a good score? 3080 in normal mode.

Thats a good score.

Im using Win7 64-bit
Intel Core2 Quad @2.83GHz
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS

Low - 2101
High - 1168

Would be better if i had enabled SLI mode but currently FFXIV wont play using SLI on many Nvidia cards (crashes). Hopefully this will be fixed before the general release. If not gogo new graphics card/cards just to make it look extra pretty~

That graphics card is killing you I think.. Upgrading to a ATI Radeon HD 5770 or 5780 should push you around 2500 on low I think

cool fizzy thank you for the info guess ill have to get a new graphics card. I thought the graphics card was killing me but just wasn't 100% sure.

I know what the min specs are on FF14 but my question is my curent computer has.
windows xp home w/ sp3
intel core2 duo 6600 @ 2.40ghz
2 gig of ram and Nvidia geforce 8800gt

My question is whats difference between 8800gt and 9600gt and should i just but a computer with ss harddrive with better mb and processor also I have been with intel for 2 computers now since intel took over the speed not sure how amd is.