A program I am looking to buy requires "Processor Speed Intel Pentium: 4 1.3 GHz or AMD Athlon XP 1500+". The processor in my machine has a 2.20 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core. Will my machine be sufficient?

Yes

i was gunna say that too...

Thanks, y'all!

Yeah I agree with them.... more then sufficient to run properly... though I am not overly familiar with the mentioned CPU's... I do have a AMD Turion on mine with similar overall specs... The configuration can improve performance (according to school readings) quite positively (configuration is dual - quad core for multi processing) but another thing to look at is FSB or bus speed. Anything close to 1000 Mhz or over is good..slower FSB's can hinder performance by not delivering data to the ALU's (main processing component) and can make a dual core useless..one reason hardware will not live up to software specs when it should according to it's own specs...what software program is it?? a game??

go to in BIOS, AND INCREASE UR SYS SPEED BUT THIS IS RISKY

You don't go into the bios to increase your system speed. You overclock the processor. It is only dangerous if your motherboard isn't made to do it.

As for the original poster, your processor is fast enough. This doesn't mean the program will run well on your system. What were the program specs for memory?