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That is a VERY old machine and though it may have been 'ok' up to now, that is because most games until now are console ports made to work on 2005 hardware... this is a PC only game meant to be current.. running it on high everything is BEAUTIFUL and well worth it (if you plan on playing the game for a while) to invest in hardware that'll allow that
Yeah, it's not like the old days when a ONE-year-old computer had to be completely replaced if you wanted acceptable framerates in the latest games, in large part due to ludicrously fast CPU and GPU advancements. Remember when in 1999, 350-400 MHz Pentium IIs and K6-2s were the norm, while by the end of 2000, people were packing 1 GHz Pentium IIIs and Athlons? Everything's slowed down a lot since 2005, and perhaps because of that, a five-year-old computer can still provide mostly acceptable performance.
Here's the thing, though: I can't afford a new computer right now, and when I recently built an i5-2500K/GTX 460 setup for a friend, I didn't immediately notice that much of a performance difference. Thus, I have a feeling that no less than a very heavily overclocked i5-3570K and a GTX 670 will even begin to deliver acceptable framerates, and I'm probably better off waiting until Haswell and whatever the next generation of graphics cards might be.
It's not just PlanetSide 2, for that matter. DCS World has also proven to be ridiculously CPU-intensive, especially at lower altitudes when you can get a good look at the terrain around you.
Whatever the case, a new computer is going to cost at least $1,000 minimum, and for that much, it had better manhandle every game I throw at it, 60 FPS, maxed-out settings. Crysis, Metro 2033, PS2, DCS, whatever you care to name, I'd better be getting my money's worth, because a system like that won't be worth even half the price after a year.
