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The Xbox is a FAR better deal, considering that card is not much faster than
what you already have and is not the bottleneck in your system. You won't
see a $300 improvement, but the Xbox opens up completely new aveneus for you
and you probably won't bother with your PC after using the Xbox.



"Steven C (Doktersteve)" <real_dok...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am on a budget for gaming, and i would like to either upgrade my current
> system, or get a console to play games on the the next year or two.
>
> My current pc is:
> Athlon xp1800+ (1.5ghz)
> Geforce 3ti 200 (overclocked to ti500 speeds)
> 512 megs pc2100 ram
>
> I am looking at getting a saphire radeon 9600pro card. This card runs at
> about $239.00 canadian, i can get an xbox refurbished by microsoft for the
> exact same price, or i can go with the adrenaline pack and get the xbox,
> halo, and amped for about $279 canadian without taxes.
> I wouldnt really play amped, but i would play halo.
>
> of course, halo will be out on pc this year.
>
> What is more worth my money? Really, i get alot of games from friends for
> the pc. i buy as much as i cant, but cant afford every big release, so i
buy
> the ones i like, and sort of borrow the ones i dont (please, no flames
> because of this, i am still a "poor" student type person).
>
> If i go xbox, i have to consisder software. There is less of it, but its
> easy to pop a game in and just play.
>
> If i get the xbox, how outdated will it be by the time the next console
> systems come out (in 2006 it seems now)?
>
> If i get the radeon 9600, will i be able to even PLAY games like hl2 and
> doom3 properly? or will those games be better out on the xbox for a guy
like
> me.
>
> If i stay with pc, i will have to keep upgrading the cpu, hdd, and ram.
that
> gets pricey.
>
> Please, give me some advice.
> I play alot of FPS games, but that is because i dont like sports games on
> the pc, i do play them occasionally on my gamecube, because i have a
proper
> controller on that console. I would play mroe sports games if i had an
xbox
> i imagine, i am thinking of the sega sports titles here.
>
> Are there that many xbox exclusive games out there? what about in the
> future?
>
> oh boy, so many questions.
> Thanks.
> Steven.
>
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