I've also read about the image quality thing, though I think the MSI would be a great choice to go, also looking at your system, you should not have any problems, running games in full detail with good frame rates. I dont tend to concentrate on the benchmarks, image quality, cuz not all games take games take advantage of the features that graphic cards have to offer. It should last you last you a long time...

Note: thx, harrack52 we do have a small forum, and it seems to attract the beginners alot more than experts...every one has to start somewhere, we do have a nice response time here (mostly thanks to Big B), though as we get more members and mods, should get even faster