What games can run

you would have to play at low rez and turn down some of the detail

Can it run? Yes... Those are higher end games though and I would not be happy with how they ran...

You will be able to play older games like Half Life 2, Counter Strike, Halo, Oblivion, Battlefield 2, Doom 3, Far Cry 1, Age of Empires, and others from that era at fairly high settings; however, you should not bother trying to get games like assassins creed, far cry 2, and Crysis to run.

If you want to get serious in gaming, i would save for a new system. Or buy a cheap Gateway or Dell (saw a Phenom X4 2.2, 3 gigs of ram, 500 gig hard drive, 780g (i think) for $350 and add a PCI-E video card)

Hey Xhibitman –

From looking at your specs, I agree with Ares and Jaguarxks ...I think you ought to consider an upgrade if you’re serious about playing games. With the specs you listed, you’d barely be able run games even at the very lowest settings (and frame rate would be horrible). Truthfully, you probably won’t be able to run Crysis.

There’s an aircooled Blackbird 002 config for $1,999 if you’re interested – you can check it out here: http://h20435.www2.hp.com/#/HOME And a review you might find helpful: http://reviews.cnet.com/desktops/h [...] 92299.html

If you’ve got more questions about the system or other specs needed for gaming let me know.

--VoodooDan