Inspiron 560- Will it run Starcraft 2?

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My friend just got a new desktop. He wants to know if he can play Starcraft 2 on it, so I looked up the system requirements and then the specs for his rig and most of it checked out fine. He has in it:
CPU-Pentium (R) Dual-Core E5500 @ 2.80 GHz (2 CPUs- 2.8 GHz)
Memory- 6144Mb RAM
HDD- It said online around 1 TB depending, but regardless he should still have enough.

My only concern is the graphics device which includes:
Intel (R) G45/G43 Express Chipset.

I thought about giving him my old 9800 GTX+ but the PSU listed said only 300W when it requires a 500W at least I believe.

So my question is will the Graphics Device be enough to handle Starcraft 2?
 
According to this, he will NOT be able to properly run the game as he has an integrated Intel GPU, and not a single one, to date, can efficiently run the game.
System Requirements explained in detail - Forums - StarCraft II

Other than that, he appears to meet all the minimum or recommended settings, he just needs to upgrade his GPU.

Video card

We require a GeForce 6600 or Radeon 9800 video card in terms of performance. Keep in mind that there are higher-numbered video cards that fall under what we need. Probably the best chart you can look at is available on Tom's Hardware: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-geforce-gtx-480,2598-6.html

The GeForce 6600 and Radeon 9800 are towards the lower half of the chart. If your video card is under it, that's not a good thing. If your video card is above it, that's good.

Some of the more common ones that are under (below) the system requirements:

NVIDIA GeForce 6150, 6200, 7150, 8300, 8400, 9100, 9300

ATI Radeon Xpress 200, 1150, 1250, X1050, 8500-9600, X300-600

All Intel GMA adapters minus the one in the i3/i5 chips. Those tend to run better but we don't know how much.
 
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