Athlon works. Get at least a 2200 if you go with an AMD. Celeron and pentium work to, get at least a 2.0 Ghz. get min 512 mg RAM (DDR not SDRAM), 40 gig 7200 rpm hard drive. USB2. audio on the motherboard isn't to bad but do not get the video on the motherboar... Login to read more.