not true, I just installed my GTX480 and now have 6GBs of ram. Do you want to know how much of an improvement on the benchmark I gained? 40 points. My system scores a 2248 now. The benchmark is trash. Plain and simple. It tests nothing but CPU preformance with threading and does ia piss poor job at it since my CPU gets a P18990 running 3dMark Vantage which is a pretty good score.

As for the specs of my mom's laptop. 3GBs of ram, HD3xxx mobile (its mid-grade, just forget exact model), and an Athlon II CPU running at 2.1GHz. It can run FFXI easily and actually run Crysis on low (at like 25fps but still it runs it). I havent tested the system with 3dmark or anything else but if I was to guess what it would score CPU wise I'd place it maybe around P14000 which is 1000 points above my Athlon X2 4600 .

Again, no offense, but I just doubt you were one of the best.

1) Everyone thinks "they're one of the best ____" or "they're in the best xLS", they're not.

2) I believe you truly think you and your tank were one of the best, I just don't think it's true.  If you've never experienced better simply because you haven't played with better for whatever reason, it's easy to think you're the best.

3) Covering a single tank isn't really a hard job and in that case, macros aren't hugely important (though macros are always better than no macros).  One more time, absolutely no offense here, but if I knew you didn't use macros, I would probably tell you to concentrate on a single person too.  Not because you're awesome, but because I would seriously doubt your ability to do anything else.  A good clue covering only the tank isn't hard and doesn't require as good of a healer?  This job was usually defauled to me when I went and did at with my LS when I was only a 60SMN and they were all 75.

4) You may be the best WHM around that doesn't use macros, but you're still probably not as good as a mediocre WHM that does use macros.  It's actually fairly funny that you consider yourself awesome but don't use macros.  Just because you're playing it the harder way, or old school, and being stubborn doesn't make your better.

I made almost my entire career as a mage and my mains were SMN, WHM, BRD, and SCH so I know healing.  I had every mage class leveled to at least 37 and many of the melee classes decently leveled too.  If you're not using macros, you're doing it wrong.  Lets just hope you never played RDM.

Honestly I don't think using macros on a mage job makes you better. It is there for convienence But I prefer a challenge. a challenge of which I always overcame.

FF11 is kind of a slow game so that logic can apply fine without crazy macros which would never work with a game like WoW, and from what I've seen, they are speeding up the combat to close to WoW speed, so.....

FFXI is slow in that you can't get max level in a week or two like WoW but the actually combat and all that is pretty quick and involved (even in long battles).

If you're doing healing or support, you constantly have to be on your toes to keep up with healing, debuffs, buffs, status ailments, and so on. 

If you're playing something like SMN, you have several timers to deal with along with deciding what BP to use when and probably keeping the party alive all at the same time.

If you're playing RDM and you don't have a headache, you're doing it wrong.

If you're playing any kind of other class, you're constantly monitoring hate and TP so the healer doesn't hate you and you can take part in SC's.

If you're playing a traditional tank, you constantly have to be on top of your game and keeping track of timers.  If you're playing /NIN, you have even more to keep track of. 

FFXI may not be the quickest game, but if you don't think it's not involved you must have no got very far into the game.

And as for the challenge comment, you might be able to handle it but again, you're probably about as good as any mediocre or passable WHM.  If you want to work twice as hard and be worse than me, it's your game, have fun!  Just don't try to pass yourself off as an incredible WHM and tell people macros aren't important because they really are.

FFXI is slow in that you can't get max level in a week or two like WoW but the actually combat and all that is pretty quick and involved (even in long battles).

If you're doing healing or support, you constantly have to be on your toes to keep up with healing, debuffs, buffs, status ailments, and so on. 

If you're playing something like SMN, you have several timers to deal with along with deciding what BP to use when and probably keeping the party alive all at the same time.

If you're playing RDM and you don't have a headache, you're doing it wrong.

If you're playing any kind of other class, you're constantly monitoring hate and TP so the healer doesn't hate you and you can take part in SC's.

If you're playing a traditional tank, you constantly have to be on top of your game and keeping track of timers.  If you're playing /NIN, you have even more to keep track of. 

FFXI may not be the quickest game, but if you don't think it's not involved you must have no got very far into the game.

And as for the challenge comment, you might be able to handle it but again, you're probably about as good as any mediocre or passable WHM.  If you want to work twice as hard and be worse than me, it's your game, have fun!  Just don't try to pass yourself off as an incredible WHM and tell people macros aren't important because they really are.

my friend, my CPU never went above 30% during those tests..... that thing is pretty video card heavy.....Wagram has almost the same setup that I do besides the video card and I kicked his ass by 700 points because I have a 5870 and he has a 5850, I think it's just that your CPU is too old at this point, I'll try running that benchmark on my 4400 MPC with a 3870 and update on the score when I get home so we can compare results.

My CPU is only a year and a hlaf old. Athlon X2 7750BE oced to 3.03GHz. My Athlon X2 isnt the old K8 processors. Its based of AMD's K10 series.