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Thanks for the reply Messer. I am afraid the 9600GT is not an option, it is too expensive. I could get the "XFX Nvidia Geforce 9600GSO 384MB", or "Nvidia Geforce 8600GT 1Gb or 256Mb" or "Nvidia Geforce 8800GS 384Mb". Bear in mind, it must support Open GL. Ultimately I would like to play IL2 on perfect settings. The 1Gb might be too much for the 9500GT but maybe it would still do the job, because it is the cheapest of all the cards I mentioned above. Thanks again.

my opinion its better to save money so u can afford to buy a good card instead to buy a cheep chard that u will regret lather, and remember that gfx card is one of the impotent thing on a pc, after the cpu.

my self bogth a ASUS EN9800GT HYBRIDPOWER/HTDI/1G GeForce 9800GT 1024MB DDR3 / PCI-E / 2xDVI / TV-OUT, and that one does the jobb, and worth every cent.

but that is my opinion.

Now that's good advice! Don't settle for less than what you really need or you will be sorry. I have a factory overclocked 8800GT (Zotac) with 512MB memory on a system that uses 2GB of DDR2 RAM and a Core2Duo E6850. It seems to be a great combination and fairly well matched. At this time there just aren't many applications or games that need 1GB of video memory, so 512MB is enough, but I would not consider cards with less than 512MB. With your system you need to look at the 9800GT or 8800GT, the 9600GT is ok, but not as fast as the 9800 or 8800 (fewer stream processes).