Well...after much hand-wringing, and not being able to find an Radeon XT800 Platinum edition card in stock most anywhere (at a decent price point), I've ordered the GeForce 6800 GT 256 mb video card @newegg with free doom 3 bundle for 399.00.

I'm hoping this makes G3 "fly" (no pun intended) the way I must have it.

Charles