Loudoun County, Virginia (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group) Loudoun County, Virginia (Source: Wayback Machine) Loudoun County, Virginia Genealogy (Source: USGenWeb)
The Intel Core i7 Processor is a top of the line quad-core processor. The games you're referring to are probably referring to dual-core processors. A 1.73 ghz i7 is significantly faster than a 2.4 ghz i3. Don't worry, you're good to go.
The Intel Core i7-4770K, based on Intel's Haswell microarchitecture, is a great chip if you need an upgrade, but performance gains are modest. The quad-core Intel Core i7-4770K is the company's new top-end chip based on its Haswell microarchitecture and its second processor built on the 22nm process node.