FX6800 128MB 256bit for $289 Also used cards!

So, I decided to put my credit towards this card, I can't believe it now how much I had paid for My Gainward Ti4600 "GoldenSample" . . . back then it was the leading edge card in the top of the top configuration. The original order came to $480.00 after tax and shipping!! After the card died on me a few months (well more than just a few, it was 8.5 months later) Newegg RMA'd it but the card wasn't being produced at the time as the 4800 was the new replacement, and so as to keep me from being without a card they gave me a choice of that card instead, or a credit. I wasn't blown away with the card over what I already had, the GF 3 Ti200 (don't laugh, that is what I am running), so I opted for the credit when I learned they were only going to take $48.00 back for the eight and a half months I owned it. I had heard the New FX cards were coming. .. so I waited.Those came out. . . and were terrible cards. . .so I waited.ATI released an awesome card but I heard enough driver horror stories that I didn’t want to bother. . . so I waited. .. The Next Generation of FX cards improved, but not as much as ATI did. . .so I waitedThen things really ramped up with the 5700 and 5900 and the 9800 pros. . .Now we are in a video card era with the last generation was good in each camp, it is a good time to be upgrading as there are some smoking FX5900XTs out there for 170.00, and ATI 9800 Pros on 9800XT cores for 198.00.long story short every release that came after never quite grabbed me, I kept waiting for the right card to come out. . then to be out long enough to have a price drop, and in the end went 2.5 years with my old ti 200. . . pretty silly really. I decided to go for the MSI 9800Pro at 198.00 before tax and shipping. . but then there are these nagging driver discussions going on at the forums. . .and then I saw the benchmarks for the 6800. . . at only 80 bucks more, for next generation technology, and better performance I just went with it in an act of supreme spontaneity.Now that my computer is this old any of these cards are going to be CPU limited so there is no point in waiting for anything more, and life is just too short to find the card that I want then wait till the next generation comes along to bump it cheaper (even though I already did that even this time)! So I put 283.00 of the credit towards the eVGA 6800. I wouldn't have bought this without a credit. . . I guess after having that credit locked away that long that feels like I am getting a card free! I also am getting a rare P4 2.8 400FSB CPU to upgrade my box with. . . hopefully these two things will give me another two years on this machine. The fastest retail boxed CPU from Intel in the 400FSB range is the 2.6 GHz, and I currently run a 2.2. It was hard to make such a shallow upgrade, but I found a 2.8 for a little less money. Who knows where they get them, it is an OEM chip that were being made for eMachines and HP, and apparently more were made than were used so they are surplus. So after researching it on the Dell message boards it is a pretty common upgrade that works in my machine, so I went for it, I figure I do that or I trudge along with this computer that I just got done paying for not being able to run FS2004 with the nice IFR conditions that I am using the software to emulate. . . and while fighting to get 20 fps in FB, and 10 in LOMAC.I hope its worth it. . . crosses fingers.I wonder if I will be able to play LOMAC!S!TX-EcoDragon