Buying a new PC, help plzx

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Well, its kind of late now, but turbocache on a videocard lets the videocard use your system's ram in order to add to it's local memory. Considering you're running 4GB of RAM, and the 8600 has 512 on board, this should actually work in your favor. On the website for your computer it says that the videocard supports a total of 1791 MB, so if the card has 512 MB on board, it is capable of stealing 1279 MB from your ram (should it need it).

[DeathsHand]

Also too late, but the 8800 is actually a more powerful card than the 9600...

The #600's are their low-ends, the #800's are their mid-high level cards...

But if all you're really looking to play is SC2, with the way Blizzard likes to cater their games to the masses, you should be fine with that there 8600...

[thatmariolover]

Originally Posted by DeathsHand

Also too late, but the 8800 is actually a more powerful card than the 9600...

The #600's are their low-ends, the #800's are their mid-high level cards...

But if all you're really looking to play is SC2, with the way Blizzard likes to cater their games to the masses, you should be fine with that there 8600...

No, 9600 is the mid-range. 9300 and 9500 are the low-ends for the GeForce 9 series. Regardless, the 9600 should be cheaper than the 8800 GT, and if it's not get the 8800 GT. As I said, price/performace the 9600 is awesome. Just a bit below the 8800 GT, and in the US at a fair price break.