Nope. Graphics cards are just really, really good at their specialized tasks. That's why they are 100x or more times faster in some certain scientific calculations than even the best CPUs on the market.
Whereas CPUs are very general and can do a wide variety of things, GPUs are only good at highly parallel applications (like games and videos, that involve processing thousands and thousands of pixels every second), but they do those certain things really fast. Just buy a 6670 or 6770 graphics card if you need it. A quad core and 8gb of RAM are no good without it: it's like using an F1 chassis and racing tires with an old Toyota Prius engine: there's not much you can do to fix it unless you change the racetrack (extending the metaphor, this means optimizing the code of the game itself, which would be very difficult...).
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.