AIW 9600XT?

SickBoy

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I'm not huge into PC gaming, although there are a few games (Pirates, the Movies) that I'll need an upgrade for anyhow... but right now I'm considering upgrading my video card to an ATI All-in-Wonder 9600XT.

I wasn't in a rush, but right now it's sitting at $199 Cdn (~$165US) on sale at Future Shop... I've sort of set my sights on an AIW card, because I think I'd like to use those TV tuning capabilities, but I wasn't in any rush.

By comparison, the cheapest I could get the model up (9800 Pro AIW) is $315 Cdn (includes shipping and also a sale price (reg $330)) ($315 CDN=~$260US)

Any thoughts? Is there anything coming down the pipe that's not a FPS that I won't be able to play with this card?

EDIT: To illustrate how big I am on PC gaming, my current card is a 32MB GeForce 2MX
 
I'm using a non-AIW 9600XT with 256meg ram. I can play Doom3 at Ultra high settings, as well as HL2 with everything turned on. While the GPU is limiting, it's a good enough card at it's price, I spent the rest of my money on upgrading to an Athlon64 3200+ and 1 gig of ram. :)
 
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