hi, i duno why ur videos are running slowly, maybe ur graphics card but i used to have that card and it worked fine with videos, maybe u need to format :p i have pentium4 3.2ghz 120gb 1gig ram ati radeon 9800xt 256mb realtek network card soundblaster live 5.1 asus mobo p4p-800 delux oh yehr and everything runs perfectly, i have battlefield 2 which recently came out, i run it on max everything including anti aliasing