Quote: "I run a 8600GTS OC with 256 MB GDDR3 and can run this and Crysis at full speed with no problem."
Either you have it on low quality(very), or your just plain simple lying, unless you call 5fps at full speed. I have a geforce BFG 8800 640Mb overclocked version, and it only runs at 25fps, on full quality at res 1024x1280
Quote: "Remember that the graphics card isn't the only thang in you're PC. "
Well for graphicly demanding games, yes its the main thing. I can prove this, as if i run crysis on absolubed lowest quality, i get about 70-80fps, so obvisouly the processor make less diffrence than the gfx card. In dx9 times you could argue that the particle effects and shadwos, which are now disabled, are being calculated on the processor, but the main advantage of dx10, is that is all calcualted on the graphics card - thus the 128 stream proccessors
CPU: AMD X2 6000+ 3.0ghz GFX: NVIDIA BFG Geforce 8800GTS 640MB OC-550mhz core RAM: 2048mb