Yes, the Radeon 9600pro or 9600XT are good cards, but they don't handle Open GL as well as nVidia cards do. Rumour has it, that a future driver release for ATI will fix the Open GL problem.
Having said that, I use a 9800XT and am quite impressed with it. Quite frankly, picture quality is a lot better than my old Geforce card, and I have yet to find any games that I can't play with all details maxed out, including 8X AA, and 16X AF.
I don't do much with the FPS myself, but do enjoy NWN, KOTOR, Flight Sim 2004, etc...
To be honest, if your card is working great for the games you play today, hold off until it can't. Any card you buy today, will be outdated tommorrow.
