[CrimsonRisk]

As far as not needing to upgrade for future use goes, I would be happy if I could still comfortably play games that were released a year from now on decent settings. I've been using the same old 1.9ghz laptop with integrated video card and 32-bit Vista on 2gb RAM on it for 5 years now, and it can't even play Zombie Panic Source or League of Legends on minimum settings without choppy fps. This thing takes me a full fifteen seconds to save a .gif sometimes.

I'd love to have a CPU that could handle me running a ton of different programs at once no sweat, I like having lots of stuff open, including multiple IM services (Skype, Steam). I don't know much about desktop components as I haven't been keeping up with the technology. I feel like I would use Vegas more often if I could run it better! I have great interest in multimedia design type stuff, too bad it takes an hour to render a video.