I inherited a motherboard from my buddy that had a PCI-e port on the motherboard so I bought an awesome video card, an HD4850 X2 1gb, to be exact. Now I can finally play the games I couldnt before because of bad framerates. Don't get me wrong, my 9800 Pro 128mb did good with me for a long time, but after overclocking it a while back, it had long surpassed it's abilities. I started out by diving straight into Red Alert 3, which ran ok on my 9800 Pro but I had to turn everything down and the game lacked a certain magic. Now with my new video card I am running the game at ultra high settings and it is amazing! With my newfound graphical power on my PC I plan on playing a lot of games I have missed out on because they didnt run well and some games that I am eagerly anticipating for the future, I will list then now:

Company of Heroes Gold Edition (original and and opposing fronts expansion)

Universe at War

World in Conflict

Supreme commander + exp.

Sins of a Solar Empire

Starcraft 2

and (droool....) Diablo 3

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

those are the games I have been most looking forward too, if you can't tell I am an RTS NUT!

Any more suggestions that I may have missed in the last few years of PC gaming, please tell meQ!

Thanks for reading, Patrick