i have a Q8200, 4 gb DDR2, 500 gb, 9800GT 1gb, an it plays everything i want it to, but not at high settings. I'm using a 21'' Sony Trinitron at 1280x960, and everything is flawless!! smooth playback of games, and i mean all games! I play Mass Effect 2 (completed, startd DLC), Just Cause 2, GRID, Ghostbusters*, Shift, Bad Company 2*, Dirt 2, CODMW2*, Prison Break, Bioshock 2, all at 1280x960 an smooth as hell. The only game that slowed my FPS was Just Cause 2 but if youve played that game its DX10 only an its like GTA but on an island thats like 5xs the size of that whole map an it has all the great weather effects an people around, and destructable *** an it doesnt stop to load any of it, you just go thru seamless from place to place. I have to say the only thing i want to do is get another hard drive to play games off of, cause i think mines a little cluttered an rather have a dedicated drive, but i do put the whole game on the hard drive an never use the disks, and i have to say they give an take from each other pretty nicely. Q8200 is the slowest of the Qs but we can get up to a 2.83 Q on that same hard drive so when the price drops ill put a bigger one in but the Q8200 doesnt bottleneck ***. I think there pretty flawless. Like i was saying with all those games listed i had no problems playing them, id say the ghostbusters game played great an its code is pretty hefty an clunky and it got taken to the cleaners but everything else plays smooth, an also Just Cause runs great but when you steal a plane an take to the sky an your flying thru clouds itll slow fps, an also when mad peeople are shooting you at once an your causeing chaos itll slow but the xbox does too. So in final, i describe my cpu to everyone that its xbox 360, its so good. Q8200 an 9800GT 1gb, are perfect in marriage. Also Intel likes nVidia, not to mention i got a *** evga 9800 gt, with a huge fan on it, no casing like some just board with a ice looking cooler an jumbo fan, that never heats or is loud, by far the perfect rig. My cpu setup is a stock Dell 530 Q8200 4 DDR2 500WDAAKS ECS 9800GT 1GB 21" CRT Trinitron 1280x960
* means competed game.