🚀 go-pugleaf

yes, go for the R9600Pro card!
I have similar situation like you earlier this year. I saw a lot of
new
games come out only on the game consoles (PS2, XBOX and GC) then I
decided
to buy a PS2 and will not upgrade my video card for the next few years
untill PS2 is out of date. But I was wrong. 
PS2/XB are good consoles and I enjoied them for a couple of months
But with more and more new PC games coming out, such as HL2, Doom3 and
many other real time strategy games, I have to give up investing on
the
game console for few reasons:
1. for FPS games, you have to have a mouse.
2. for games like AOE, WarcraftIII, PC is the only way to go
3. for internet games, PC has far more titles available
4. for better sound effect, I would not say XBox can compete with my
Creative SB Live.
5. you can download game demos before you buy it.
6. you can get patches for the game titles you purchased. no one game
has no bugs.
Now I had spent another few hundred dollars for a new ATI R9800 card.
That's the gaming life.. 
Trident9440 :)


"Joe" <lin...@comcast.net> wrote in message news:<1yWdnU0-MeJ...@comcast.com>...
> 
> The 9600 Pro will complement the system nicely.  I would go for the card,
> grab Halo for PC and pick up an XBox when Halo 2 comes out.  If you do
> decide to get the XBox check out gamefly.com.  They are actually pretty good
> and cheap.  PC has so many good titles coming out that I would definitely
> get the card:  Half-Life 2, Doom3, Halo, not to mention classics like BF
> 1942, Warcraft,  Generals, so on and so forth.
> 
> -Joe