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Not water cooling, unless you're heavily into overclocking (and even then, it's more of a 'my rig is better than urs omg' type thing, IMO). The stock HSF should be fine; If for some reason it's not, buy a new HSF.

Uninstall, restart, install new drivers, restart again? I either do it that way, or uninstall, install, restart; All I know is I had the same issue as you and it works now.

You can change the VCore... It's not in that same menu. It'd be more to the left, under chip configuration or something. But what motherboard do you have?

Aight, what I meant is, to get into the BIOS, you hit delete (repeatedly) as the computer is just starting up. A screen should come up, this is the BIOS. At the top of the screen should be various categories; go over to the right until Power is highlighted. Go down on the screen to where it says...

Power supply is exactly what I was going to say. I'd go with Antec... They make some nice power supplies.

How dusty is your case? Many people have asked and you're yet to answer. That can be a big factor. Also, assuming you know how to get into the BIOS (hit delete as the computer is starting), the screen that shows your temps will be called 'hardware monitor.' I don't remember the exact name of the...

The 9800 Pro is a great card... Just shop around first. If that's the lowest you can find it for, compare its prices to, say, the GeForce 6800 128MB. If the 6800 128MB is ~$400 or more (converted) I would go with the 9800 Pro.

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That'd be fine, assuming your not overpaying (which I don't think you are, I don't remember conversions for pounds). Just keep in mind (I get the feeling you don't realize this) that more memory doesn't mean a faster card (a Radeon 9600 256MB is hella slow).

THX certification, as it stands with computer speakers, is only 'multimedia certification,' or something like that. It means nothing. Side note... Have you considered shopping online?

More memory does NOT make one video card better than another. Make sure you realize this. The minimum video card I would pair with that setup is a Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB (256bit). These can be had for as little as $200 online (and Best Buy is having a sale, you can get one for $179.99 with...

And I JUST made the connection. I thought I had seen this message before... Welcome to the Anandtech forums :)...

1-Nah, the ones from the NVidia launch event. There was just plain more detail there, and NVidia tried to play it off like it was SM3.0 doing all that. 2-I have no idea wth that means, but it just furthers what I am seeing as NVidia loyalty by Crytek (quite annoying).

I can't understand for the life of me 1) why the SM3.0 screenshots of Far Cry that I have seen look better than the SM2.0 ones, and 2) why HDR, too, will only be available to 6800 owners. Feckin annoying.

Try this: Right click my computer, click properties, hardware tab, device manager, open network adapers, right click your network card, and click properties. Click advanced, and select 100Base TX Full_Duplex (or at least not autosense). I had a very similar problem a while back, and this...

I agree, get rid of the dust and get those cables under control, and if that doesn't work, have your friend make sure the CPU HSF is 1) capable of cooling your processor (it looks like a HSF from one of my old Durons, but I haven't bought a retail processor since so I dunno what the XP's look...

While I do think you will want to upgrade in the end, as long as your current setup runs games fine for now you may as well wait and see how it runs HL2.

The Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB is a TON faster than the Radeon 9600 256MB. The memory does not make it faster: Benches As I said before the 9600 isn't really fast enough to use the extra memory (hell, the 9800 Pro isn't, either).

Exactimately.

Sigh... The card is 'more than enough' to run the game at minimum detail levels, I'll give you that... I mean, whether or not it supports DX9, it's slower than a GeForce 4 Ti for the most part. So I still think you're gonna be a tad bit dissappointed.