Name a good but not so expensive graphics card for handing 1680x1050 res?

Question

i want it to play games such as COD4 on at least medium settings smooth, and WoW on high settings. At the moment i have:

2gb RAM

3.00ghz dual core processor

8600gts Graphics card (SUCKS i get about 20-40fps on medium-low settings on WoW, yes WoW) -.-

i was thinking 9600gt may be good ?

Answer 1

Get an 8800 series one if you can find one in your price range, some of the 8800GT ones have come down in price quite a bit recently and can easily handle most things on high settings, I have similar setup - 3.0ghz dual core, 2gb RAM and an 8800GS 384mb and that can handle most of the games I play on the highest settings (HL2, TF2, GTA:SA, Call of  juarez, 2 worlds etc etc) and is pretty cheap, may struggle with some more recent games  but will be way better than a 8600 ( My processor is a pentium D and is the main bottleneck there but doesn't stop me playing any of these with all settings on full, so the 8600 is probably the bottleneck in your system)

Answer 2

Well, the 9600GT is decent. But for WoW I think that overkill.

Besides, saying 3Ghz dual core isn't actually helpful. If that processor is a Pentium D. Then an Athlon64 X2 4600 would be faster than that. And is actually the cause of slow games on WoW.