Quote Originally Posted by Delphi
i'm a bigtime pc gamer...

Now your pc is more than good enough except for one thing, your onboard vid card. Basically that vid card is either a 64mb or 32mb and than it uses hard drive space to get the rest of the 256mb. In an essance its not a real 256mb vid card because hard disk memory is slower than a 100 year old t-32, lol.
Absolute bunk. The GPU is using dedicated physical RAM, not virtual memory being cached on disk. Study up on UMA-Unified Memory Architecture.

Atrain, it would still be helpful to have the make/model of your system. There are different Northbridge and Southbridge chipset combinations that will dictate the performance of your specific system. The nVidia 6100 is limited to only 2 pixel pipelines, which isn't going to give you high-end gaming performance. The 6100 series does support DirectX 9.0 and Shader Model 3.