Sheesh, sounds like you live in the middle of a desert

Just a warning though as I do know someone with an 8600, when you do want to play a high end game, this card does not have enough juice in it to make it fun.
I chose the 8800 GTS 512 which is a well priced with enough juice to play high end games at a respectable frame rate.
Second reason why I had bought this card is its cooler, mine stays under the 50 (and microchip manufacturer generally states 70 degrees as the maximum allowable heat dissipation) degree centigrade mark, and blows hot air out the back and not on the mother board (or worse)