Processor performance depends not only on the clock frequency of the processor, but also on the number of processor cores and the size of the processor cache. The following are the processor requirements. Minimum: 1.4 GHz 64-bit processor Compatible with x64 instruction set Support for NX and DEP Support for CMPXCHG16b, LAHF/SAHF, and PrefetchW instructions Support for Second Level Address Translation (EPT or NPT) Support for the SSE4.2 (Streaming SIMD Extensions 4.2) instruction set Support for the POPCNT instruction You can utilize Coreinfo, which is a tool included in Windows Sysinternals, to verify the capabilities of your CPU.