Is it better to buy the Intel Core Duo iMac no. 1?

Here the iMacs Core Duo 1,83Ghz and Core 2 Duo 1.83 Ghz are the same price. Difference is, the Core Duo has an ATI X1600 card while the Core 2 Duo has that crappy Intel 950 integrated graphics chip. So which would be better for me to buy?
Thank you all so much.
iMac DV SE 400Mhz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Thanks for the answer!
From my experience Macs do not need 256 MB video cards, am I right? Like, ther ATI X1600 comes in 256, 512MB for PC versions... And when my Imac with its 8MB of video memory was able to play games, I always noticed that the same game on the PC required 32 or 64 MB of dedicated video.
I know the Intel is better than the others... But since I read that all the options in World of Warcraft were greyed out using this card, it annoyed me... After all it's kind of an old game, since it runs on a G4 with 1 GHz.
Anyway I've made up my mind and decided for the first model, actually it's 500 USD cheaper and that helped me a lot in choosing it

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