well if you get the emachine with the integrated ati xpress 200, those arent so bad, they have pci-e, so thats a plus, and the onboard graphics card is 256 mb, mines not an emachine but its close to it... compaq, and it runs hl2 just fine, don't settle for a lower amd also, lowest i went was the 3500+, but you won't be disappointed.... well, not til later at least... i wasnt disappointed til i got to play with dual 7800 gtx 512 -_-