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single core would do you the best for gaming, games (with few exceptions) only run on one core, this does leave the other core open for the OS and everything else, but the single core, even with out the rest of the overhead will not outperform a similarly priced single core. Dual core is useful when you need (or want to) run several, intensive applications at the same time, such as a game, and encoding a movie. If you plan to just play a game, and not do anything else, a single core would be best.
As for the video card, you probably want to go with something a bit more powerful, I have not shopped for a video card in a while, hopefully some one who has done some research lately can help you out. Other wise I’ll take a look for you in the next few days.
As for the video cards I have bought and there makers
LeadTek geforce 3 ti200, good performance, crappy design, the heat sink does not actually touch the chip, they slop 3 mm of thermal grease to bridge the gap. I hope they have learned from there mistakes and make better products by now.
Sapphire Radeon 9800 pro, great card, well made, slight issue with one of the heat sinks on the memory, but it was a manufacturing defect, not anyone’s fault, great card.
eVGA 6800 ultra, good design, great performance, but the cooling was very noisy, I replaced the heat sinks and it’s virtually silent now.
I am very happy with my eVGA card, they make solid products, if anyone else can recommend brands that they have used and had great results please do.
Also if you have the money, go with 2 gigs of RAM, at 2 gigs, you have enough to rid your self of the page file, which will increase your speeds for just about everything.
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