CPU SPECS

[Gurlok]

I'll throw my 2 cents waiting for someone with better knowledge than me. Regarding the cpu Squall is right, just keep in mind to look for ghz as high as possible (throw away anything lower than 3.0ghz) BUT, if he is planning to play some heavy games he need to choose a good gpu too, as a matter of tastes I'd go for nvidia. In that attachment, the intel core I5 3.0ghz 3rd gen is the only "decent" thing, the rest is all about crap if you ask me. To put it clearly everything depends on the budget of your friend, but cpu and gpu are the key requirements for playing games in general.