Gaming on my iMac

I am looking into gaming on my iMac, and just want some knowladge on what to do. I have 3 questions:
The first one is, i have the late 2009 iMac (21.5 inch screen, 2.66 processor, NVIDA 9400 graphics, 2GB of RAM). So i have some conceres about this. I am a very woried kind of person, i worry about everything going wrong. So first i am going to play intense games like maybe CoD, or Dead Space and i don't want my processor to be working at 100% why i am playing those games, but at the same time don't want to have the graphics turned to like the very minimum, i don't really care how they look as long as they look 'decent'. So my first questoin is will it run the processor down at 100?% becuase i don't want to wear/fry the processor over playing games and have to buy a new computer.
THe second this is it's not really a question but just putting it out there but i don't care about FPS. Like some people obesess over FPS. i don't as long as the games doesn't lag/lag so bad that the games is unplayable, then i am fine.
My final question is thatthere are only a few games for the mac naticaly, like CoD 4 or Portal 2. But pretty much all of the games that are major titieles are also releaesd for the PC. so what should i do, should i download like SUnbos and virtualize windows? anor boot camp, i prefer to vitulize becuase i dont''t want to partitoin my dirive at all. Will Sunbox with Windose Xp run intesnse games with my hardware? And if i just use windows to games and disable the internet for windows tso there is no chance for viruse, i should be okay to not aget a viruse, right? I don't want to pay for anti-virus, becuse that is what the mac is basically for.
Also what do people think about steam? the only two concers that i have about it are that how long it will take to download that games and putting the credit card in. Besides that i love the convcept of it being lke Xbox live with voice, and chat and i think it ''s awesome, or should i buy the disk version so i don't have to download it? Thanks for you help

ohh also i have a extra HardDrive next to my iMac that has like about 50GB of 250GB used, so i don't overpack my mainharrdrive, will i be okay to run windows/games from it? Will it lag even more (like i said i would like to run it from here but don'w want it to lag a lot. Thanks for your help in advance (BTW it is connected by Firewire 800)

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