I have this:
http://www.newegg.com/product/prod [...] 6814133214

I’m running dual monitors at 1680x1050 with Vista Ultimate.

My friend said that I should upgrade my video card. Will I get any added benefit from a new video card?

I just occasionally play games and even tried Crysis with 1 monitor at low settings. I finished the game on Delta (which I assume means most monsters) and it seemed fine through all the episodes. So what will a better graphics card do for me besides allowing me to up the settings on a game like Crysis (which I’m never playing again)?

yes definately, any other video card lol the 8600 GTS, they were never good.

your next step up might be the 4850 for 200$ or any other caard, 8800 GT, 8800 GTS, 9600 GT, 8800 GS.

Either 1 of those cards double the 8600 GTS benchmarks atleast.

So I also have a Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz and 4MB RAM dual channel 800 RAM.
So does this spec make it possible for me to play that game even though my 8600 is not a gaming card?

your specs are good, your card is bad. I mean at the resolution you play I'm suprised you can play games jks

Seriously though, that card I never understood because it can't even make a playable framerate for DX10 games:S

4850 is your answer.

Three words W_T_F! I'm running one 8800GT at 650,1625,950 and That's Crysis at high with 40-50 fps (1280 x 1024) pretty much constantly. I would not call the 8800GT "low end." It's not a bad buy now, last week the EVGA one was around $130 which is a great buy.

i have a 8600gt and i can play almost every game in max settings(crt 1280x1024), exept crysis, witch i don´t even like it. but to be honest a 8800gt is a great card, have in mind how much and what games do you play.

HD 4850 BRO!

It actually recommended everything set to Medium at that resolution, but I found it a little jittery and didn't like it so I changed everything to low settings. But at the low settings it seems to handle DX10 ok. Maybe because this specific card has a 710 MHz clock helps it a little. But then again, for Crysis, you usually play a game like this for the graphics on very high settings I suppose. I mean the game-play itself is pretty lame compared to others so...but I guess it's meant to be multi-palyer and the episodes are just "training".

DO NOT BUY A 8600 full stop I bought one just a temp card when I fried my 7800GT while I was waiting for the 8800GT to come out. Even as a temporary card it was rubbish infact the performance was almost worse than old 7800!

4850 like others said, its soo sexy I swear I'd buy it just to look at it and then throw out my 9600 GT in my second computer

Yeah, I checked out that card. It's cheap compared to the nVidia counterparts.