Is the 3.06 GHz iMac good enough for gaming? How good is the performance?

The primary difference between the two cheapest iMacs is the graphics card and the 500 GB hard drive increase. The hard drive upgrade can be ignored for a moment, since the worst case scenario is I buy an external 500 GB hard drive for $50. For the graphics card, though, how big of a performance boost would I get from upgrading to the next graphics card, which would be going from the ATI Radeon HD 4670 with 256MB to the ATI Radeon HD 5670 with 512MB? Is the 256MB probably going to be sufficient to last at least four years, or should I just pay the extra $300 or so to upgrade to the 512 MB? The market price difference between the two models is about $50 at the moment.
I have a MBP right now as you can see in my signature; as it's four years old already, gaming-wise, it can't really play the latest games anymore. It's capable of playing Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (not the sequel) at the lowest graphics settings and only getting 30 FPS or so when there's little action, but that can easily drop to 15 FPS or less when there's stuff happening on the screen.
I don't play video games all that much (let's say five hours a week), but I'd at least like a computer that doesn't need to be replaced too soon, either, so I'm currently on the fence between these two models. I definitely don't want to go the next step and get a 27" iMac, though, since I already have a 21" monitor and so getting an extra 21" iMac would fit best with it, and I'm happy with the size as it is as I usually use my computer for programming and such.

Not even the top end card included in the 27" models is going to last 4 years, so you may as well rule out the iMac right now. You're going to want something a bit more user-friendly on the upgrade front. So, that limits you to the Mac Pro if you want to stay with Apple products. Otherwise, you're going to want to build your own PC so you can build in some modularity.

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