The cheapest graphics card you can play it on is an Intel HD 2000. The minimum memory requirement for Pipes! is 512 MB of RAM installed in your computer. If possible, make sure your have 2 GB of RAM in order to run Pipes! to its full potential. An Intel Pentium 4 2.00GHz CPU is required at a minimum to run Pipes!. You will need at least 200 MB of free disk space to install Pipes!. By contrast, the game developers recommend somewhere around 300 MB of free disk space on your system drive.
Pipes! will run on PC system with Windows XP and upwards. Additionally it has Mac and Linux versions.