text: thats a hard question to answer. having the dual chip rather then dual core is better BUT! having 1 mb chace is better then 512k and you need the extra cache to get extra performace. in the end i would end up picking the second just because i like nvidia cards much better then ati. if they both nvidia cards on the other hand i would pick the first one.\n\nIn fact i change my answer the first one sense i would be upping the ram and video card anyway. And see if this is one of the modles i could up the cache with