Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.
I'm 16 (almost 17) and started rocking Starcraft a little bit after it came out(I was what, ~11? ), I had played Doom 1&2 a little bit, but I got serious into it for Starcraft.
I was running a Ti4200 with an Athlon 64 2800+ and 512mb of crap Ram before I got my 6800GT & Gb of Kingston and I could run HL2 at 1280X1024 at High Settings. So my vote is for teh Cpu.