IMO, there's only one type of game where a gamepad is needed: fighting. In most others a keyboard or keyboard/mouse are superior or at least more than sufficient. Two exceptions are racing and flight sims, but as a race simmer, you should already have a wheel already, and a decent joystick is fairly cheap and far better suited for flight sims than a gamepad.
The shops want about £50 or so to supply and fit one of those, bugger that, this is lots cheaper, it took me, and im not the most delicately handed person in the world, about 5 minutes to fit, piece of p!ss lol.
Yeah they sound pretty good now. I guess maybe they needed a bit of time to burn in. They are well insulated too and sound from teh outside doesnt get in, or vice versa.
I ordered a Sapphire ATi Radeon HD 5850 1gb graphics card, but I probably wont get it till the 20th -_-