It doesn't have a GREAT graphics card, but it should do cs3. For $2000 at the base price, it looks overpriced. 2gb's of ram, a 160gb hard drive, and a semi-slow processor. If you get it, I would upgrade the processor, ram, hard drive, and graphics card. If you can't upgrade the graphics card, it will be way overpriced. You can find much better deals, and this just looks like they want to sell something with a large screen and bad specs.