Well.. Your memory is indecipherable. Your motherboard has 4 DIMM sockets but your components list rambles off more memory than could be in your system, so it's not informing accurately as for all I know you have 512MBs of memory (And this could be your serious problem) or you have 2GBs or memory. Your CPU should survive, it'd be slow but it shouldn't be lagging, but that depends on how you define those two terms. A distinct lack of -dedicated-graphics processing will greatly setback your graphical applications which're oftentimes tuned to make use of specialized capabilities of GPUs and their architecture. You do have the NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE chipset though, or something very similar, which is why you're able to run League of Legends. This is an integrated graphics solution built into your motherboard. It has lots of extra features compared to a typical integrated graphics processor, but it's still an IGPU, and while it may be multiple times better than an Intel graphics solution, it's several times worse than any old graphics card, and that was when you got the system. Nowadays we're talking about a performance margin exponential of something like 20 times worse than any ole current video card. You do have a PCI Express slot though, so it's possible you can add a basic semi-modern graphics card which you could pickup second have for ~$50. Just make sure you have enough power delivery headroom from your PSU, along with the connections needed (if any) to support that video card. Again, don't forget to check the memory, if it's at 512MB's, that's entirely insufficient for anything modern. 2 gigabytes is the minimum to operate in this century if you do anything worthwhile and want it done the same day you started it.

Other than all that, if you're already planning on a new system build/purchase, don't sink more than about $10-20 per month, for every month you plan on continuing to use this system. If you're forced to live on it for another half year, for example, $20 in memory, and $40 in a video card would serve you well and keep you from pulling your hair out.

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