With all the hardware I have in my system (see my sig) I get 5.9 on every item. Before that I had a dual core X24400+ AMD and it scored around 4.8 (ish). There is a hack to make the Score over 5.9 for even the slowest hardware but why anyone would want to do that is beyond me. If it runs all the stuff you have fine (games, Apps etc) and you dont feel it being sluggish then you should be all set really. TBH I dont even pay attention to the Vista Score. Real benchmarks run by several apps (3d mark, HD Tach, HD Tune, etc etc etc) more than subsitutes a synthetic score that Vista knocks together in about 2 mins... Yeah thats a real benchmark.....