I've been using a PC with C2D till it died. And I'm still having thoughts of checking whether it's solvable with a bit of soldering, perhaps replacing power.

It's enough for music, text editing, a little bit of web browsing and old games. Old games here includes a lot of goodness, but even World of Tanks worked under Wine on it back when I used it. Slow, but playable (when you have friends and it's a social event, alone kinda sad).