7900GT... is it enough?

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I just picked up an X2-4400 with an Asus A8N32-SLI mobo and chose the 7900GT from eVGA, clocked at 500/1500. It is a rocket. Love it, smaller than the old 7800GTs, quiet, cool. very nice.
 
6800 series of cards are still quite playable with a variety of games...

Personally, I don't like forking out $300-$500 for video cards or $500-$600 for cpu/mainboards all that often, and usually only do so when new games I want to play will not run at desired/acceptable resolutions with decent framerates, a strategy that has seen me progress since 1999 from a Athlon 650/GF2 MX to an XP2000+/9700Pro (2002), to my current 3500+/7800T combo (Sep 2005)...

(I suspect the debut of Conroe and Direct x 10.0/HD-DVD capable cards, mostly the former, will cause me to build yet another rig about 1.5-2 years earlier than normal!)
 
I also wait for Conroe to change my system, in fact only the motherboard and CPU, but I was thinking to change the video card first. I don't want to buy the best, I am looking to buy a 7600GT and I think will be enough as I seen lots of benchmarks, and keeping in mind that I can still play all the games @ 1280x1024 with my current specs.
 
I'm playing Oblivion with a Radeon 9600SE, yes, that's a 64-bit, 4-piper, with 3.2GB/s of bandwidth, and I'm having MORE fun than YOU, so k*** my a**!

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