Although that ATI 9700 is fast I dont think its quite worth the $$$ spent. There arent many appz that take full advantage of it. You could get a geforce 3 or even a 4 for allot cheaper and they will do the job well enough and save you a couple of hundred $$$ at the same time. You can use that money to help upgrade your CPU/memory. I cant stress to you enough that if your CPU cant deliver neither will these cards. I tried and and found out the hard way. All of these posts so far are good but I am also not a big fan of ATI because of past experiences and driver issues.