Gaia

Note also that whilst the Paragon map has remained fairly consistant - new zones have been added and the tramline changes have been applied, the Rogue Isles have had some major upheavals over the years - about half of the islands have actually rotated by ~90 degrees. I blame Doc Aeon's playing about beneath Cap Au Diable.
Also neither map shows the Shadow Shards, Pocket D, Oruborous or Cimerora.

Vidiotmaps does have a large city map that you could print out which has all the zones. If you download and save it with the correct name in the AddOns folder it could replace the City Map on the mini map tab - I think it also changes those at the tram station but not totally sure of that.
Also the current versions should be available on the CoH website somewhere.

Sounds like its failed retrieving your screen resolution.
If you exit and the restart the launcher is the problem repeatable?
If so is it repeatable after a reboot?

If you still get the problem after that try changing your resolution in Windows and then putting them back.

The 8800 is a decent card and capable of ultra mode although certainly not maxed out. I ran for some time with a 8800 GTS which is the model below yours although you don't say whether its the 512Mb or the 640Mb version - the 512 is the later model and superior card despite having less memory.
They use a PCIe interface (white slot - although later MB tend to vary the colour - with a clip on the end) although I believe there were some AGP (brown slot) models also, I would think a PCI version (white slot no clip) is unlikely.
The 8800 and 9800 series were almost identical (unless you owned one particular Dell) and the 9800GTX was die shrunk and rereleased as iirc the 265

I takes a dual slot cooler so you need to ensure you have a free slot next to your graphics card.

You almost certainly will need to upgrade your PSU though. a 230W one isn't going to last especially if its a cheap make. OTOH the blue flash you get when they blow can be quite impressive.
You might get away with a 400W but personally I wouldn't put anything below 600W into a PC these days which leaves some leeway for future upgrades.

That 105W is the power drawn by the card on its own the PSU also meeds to power the Motherboard, CPU, Memory, fans and drives + anything drawing power off of USB - those will add probably about another 150W to that figure. Then you need to factor in that you should only be running your PSU at up to ~50% load as its efficiency drops off rapidly after that. Higher temps also hit efficiency and high loads increase temps.
You should also consider that GPUs in particular will require that much power off of one power rail, whereas the rating of the PSU is spread over all of them.

If you follow the instructions on Hyperstrike's thread below we can get a much better idea of the problem.
Post the details back in this thread.

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=231628

CoH uses OpenGL - no need to set anything.

Could this be related to PowerBoard, FlyingCarpet etc disabling ALL other powers so that when the bind is checked the toggleon part cannot execute and so is ignored.
The bind would need to be parsed after each part is executed but I suspect it is only being parsed when the bind is initially executed - probably to reduce load but surely this is parsed client side and then the individual commands passed to the server in turn.

Odd - tried this on mine

News page - 1% dropping to 0% within couple of seconds
Store page - 1% dropping to 0% within couple of seconds
CoH page - 2% dropping to 0% within couple of seconds
Lineage II page - 3% dropping to 0% within couple of seconds
Guild War page - 1% dropping to 0% within couple of seconds
CoH Beta - 2% dropping to 0% within couple of seconds
Aion - 3% dropping to 0% within couple of seconds

Which is pretty much what I would expect to see however every click increases the memory footprint - but then we all know about the memory leak.

My guess this is related to the web page being served rather than the launcher itself. - Either that or the OP has a trickle D/L kicking off.

I know HDD prices are stupid atm but I'm far from convinced about the value of replacing the second 500Gb 7200 rpm drive in the second option with a 750Gb 5400 rpm one in the first is worth an extra $450 especially as it is a slower drive.
Personally I'd drop the second disk - or better replace the first with a SSD.
If you want 1Tb of storage use a 1Tb drive unless you are planning on setting up a RAID array.
GPU should be good and while the I5s will be slightly slower either processor should allow you to max out settings - I'd be more concerned over how well they disipate waste heat though which could cause the processor to clock down so looking for some reviews would be a good idea.