Any suggestions on a good graphics card for StarCraft 2?

[JonRin]

Hey, everyone.
I'm Jon and I'm new to the Tom's Hardware forums, well actually the site in general, but I digress. Anyway, I'm sure there are plenty of gaming enthusiasts out there whom could help me out here. Right now, I'm looking to upgrade to a new graphics card. I was thinking of this Radeon 280 http://, but I'm not entirely sure. So I was looking for other suggestions as well. If possible, I would like to avoid exceeding $250, as I'm a college student on a budget. Here are my system specs in case anyone wanted to know:
Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit
AMD Phenom X4 9600B
4GB Dual Channel DDR2 RAM
ASUS Narra3 Motherboard
1024MB ATI AMD Radeon HD 5770 (VisionTek)

P.S. I plan on adding additional 4GB of RAM to boost up to 8GB, as that's the max my motherboard will support. Also, I play other games as well such as Guild Wars, soon Guild Wars 2 and Battle for Middle-Earth. These are also probably contributing factors to your answers, but that's mostly speculation. Any suggestions and advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks everyone!

 

[17seconds]

All of those games favor Nvidia cards. You should be able to find a GTX 760 within your budget. The GTX 770 just received a price drop to $275.

 

[JonRin]

The GTX 760s do look nice, but my motherboard won't accept PCI-E 3.0 alone; it needs to be PCI-E x.x x16. But I think I can still manage to find a card within that range while still adhering to the motherboard limits.

 

[TheAterix]

what power supply do you have?

 

[17seconds]

Definitely an Nvidia game. A nice factory overclocked GTX 760 seems like it would fill the bill perfectly.

 

[JonRin]

Please close this thread. This issue has been resolved. Thank you!

 

[17seconds]

Pick a best answer, and I can close it.

 

[JonRin]

Done!