Jetb123, be sure to get the XT or Pro version of the 9600. The other versions are not nearly as good. I did a similar upgrade at Newegg, but went with the Geforce FX 5700 Ultra which is only slightly better than the ATI 9600 XT. Good luck with your upgrade. Mine came to less than $450 for the Grafix card, Motherboard, CPU and 512 Megs of memory. Will put it all together tonight.
Good luck with your video card upgrade allmeta1. I have AGP board, but when I tried to upgrade just the video card, I found the Motherboard I was using was not compatible with the newer AGP cards so it was a good excuse to upgrade the motherboard too. It was a lot more expensive, but I feel better about my system now.