- Pentium E5200 2.5 Ghz (the non-core 2 duo name is a bit misleading, since this is still a core 2 duo with a reduced L2 cache, based on the 45nm wolfdale core, it's a little bit faster than c2ds based on the 65nm conroe core clock for clock). Stock, I never overclock.

- 2gb of ddr2 800 mem, in single channel mode since I only have one dimm.

- geforce 9500 GT

- here's the cincher: I run PCSX2 on winxp 64 bit. I dual boot between my old 32 bit xp and xp 63 bit(because I was afraid that I have programs that won't run), and it seems that PCSX2's performance is almost halved when run on winxp 32 bit, using the same settings and hardware)

- Also, a lot of tweaking before I found speed hack settings that work fine on all of my games. Some speedhacks in the VU section actually reduce performance.