Well, yeah I'm sitting pretty with a couple of months old C2D 6600 & x1900gt but I dunno, my hard campaigning radeon9800 kinda spoiled me I guess in being able to run anything from the dx7 oldies up to modern games like BF2 at 1280*1024 with medium-high game settings + 8*AF & 2*AA.
Heck, it was even pretty happy running RTR:PE at 1920*1200 with high-medium game settings (huge units) 8*AF & 2*AA.