This is what really irritate me about gamespots performance guides, they test it one the latest gear like the core duos CPUs and AMD athlon 64 CPUs. What about the other low lvl like Intel Pentium 4 CPUs. I am running CnC on a Pentium 4 and I compaired it to my friends pc that has core 2 CPU and it looks exactly the same. Not alot of people are going to fork out the money for the core 2 CPU. Same with the graphics cards that they test CnC 3, they dont even have my graphics card listed. Its the ATI radeon x1600 256mb DDR3 PCI exspress. My pc can run any pc game out there so my advice is if you can run the demo then you dont need to spend the money on upgrading.