y not grab a cheap 9800XT?

The 9800 is certainly on my shortlist but I've put in a bid for a 6800gt on ebay and earmarked some others including an x800. The 6800gt seems to be a higher preformance card than the 9800 and can also be flashed up to an ultra if you want to mess about with floppies

God gents I'm late as hell but I scored myself a 6800 Ultra for a measly $26! Nice 3d benchmark scores but maybe some stabilty issues? I've had 1 gig of ram in my machine, beginning to think it's mucked about with the OS. I've started a new job and the moolah ain't bad, might check out that ram patch rloew sells?

For one brief gloriously anachronistic moment I had Oblivion running with a TI4200 (used dx8.1 shaders), am hoping to get even better frame rates with the Ultra and tonnes O ram!

Why? Because it's there.