A short story years ago with a older athlon system ran perfect for me but I wanted to upgrade All I did with this system was surf the web and read alot and learn alot and play mild games. I mean mild nothing like todays or the last 5 years ago we are talking about before the ghz cpu.. Well A new chip came out think it was like 1 ghz or maybe 1.2 well I sold that system to my bro in law and he had all kinds of problems could never figure it out replace board, ram ,sound card hard drive and so on so forth what it bolied down to he try would to play diablo and star craft for hours on end like 8 plus hours in the end after the few bucks I spent trying to figure out why the system would crashed and reboot we figured out the power supply was just fine for doing simple tasks as web email ect but when taxed.... Like games and such it would go crazy long story short it worked fine for me not him and still works today with a good power supply.... Something to think about and say hmmmm???