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Of course. Blizzard knows how to make efficient code, as Valve, and some other game devs out there, who are less and less as time goes on, unfortunately.

Most games are badly written, and use system resources inefficiently. Many others are made so they do eat a lot of horsepower, and are also prepared to run better with a certain graphics card, so you are forced to buy such card in order to run it (graphics chip makers pay the dev company to do so). Other games, albeit a minority, are well made, but still too heavy to be run on current graphics cards.

Some are made to demonstrate new technologies, available on certain API's or video cards. Those made so you must buy a more powerful video card to run them are the ones which will take your rig, chew it, and say "buy four Ati/nVidia RadeonForce 11950 GTXTXUltra PE X2 so you can run me at high settings". As an example, we have Doom 3 (made for the Geforce 6800), F.E.A.R (so badly made that you needed a hell of a video card, and lots of AA so it does not looks like a blocky arcade), Ghost Reckon (a Physx Physics card demonstrator), Crysis (Highly anticipated nextgen DX10 game, which although has very nice graphics, can't run under Dx10 unless you have a more than high end card), and others.

Other are made so they can run on most computers outside today, like Half Life 2, (which I completed with a Geforce2, 512MB of ram, and an athlon 2000+), StarCraft (First time I played it, was on a 486Dx4, 16MB of ram, and an integrated 1mb video card), Prey (which ran very nicely on a Geforce 6600 with impressive graphics), and the like.
I hope that StarCraft 2 is from the latter than the prior ones.:)

Money isn't an object, neither is heat, or power usage, the military foots the electric bill at my house, so what do I care?:PAlso, I've never had problems with SLI, aside from the fact when it first came out and was basically in a beta period.

You do not care for the environment? Sad to hear that.
Despite electricity being quite cheap here, I try not to waste resources, as it is not good for the environment.

Either way, its your money. I hope you enjoy your new rig, although I think you will be disappointed when you see that the card falls in price to half of the launch price in a month period, and as they do not perform as expected. Still, someone has to buy those first cards, so they are cheaper for us when we go and get them 2-3 months later.

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