What Pranzer said. I myself have a Core 2 Duo at 2.93GHZ, it's pretty good, can run games and applications fine. I regularly play Team Fortress 2, Garry's mod, Half Life 2, HL2:DM (Mostly games developed by VALVe) It runs fine with the help of certain settings because I don't have a proper graphics card. Planning to buy a ATI Radeon HD 4670 sometime in the future. :>