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Look, guy, I'm not going to get into it anymore as you obviously don't want to listen, but ATI is ahead right now. The 9800 pro is about equal to a 5900 Ultra in today's games, and virtually EVERY DX9 game has shown the 9800 series ahead by a pretty good margin (Doom III IS NOT DX9, it is an...

Why an FX 5800? You can get an FX5900 for around the same price, or even better a Radeon 9800...

I would agree, but he already has a motherboard and is a rookie at this stuff, so a processor upgrade alone is probably the best option for now.

The whole point of the bios flash was to enable the 4 extra pipelines. The 9500pro has all 8 enabled, thus there would be no point in the BIOS flash. The 9500 Pro is a faster card, but the 9600 pro can be overclocked farther...Comes down to what you wanna get. If you can, get a 9700 np...

You will be able to do 1024x768 with all effects enabled (not necessarily AA and AF, but possibly), and 1280x1024 with all effects (but here only marginally, I would think).

1-You will be fine. 2-Your MX would not run the game well at all, of course... 3-A ti4200 WILL NOT run with DX9 features enabled. Yes, there are games that require DX9 that it will run, but this is for sound...There are no currently released games that I know of that use DX9 spec graphics. And...

Now, really...When you overclock a video card and get artifacts, that means you've gone too far...It's not like there's some magic boundary where it just stops working.

The 9800 SE is castrated, plain and simple. Probably around 9600 pro in performance, maybe a little better. But, assholes run stores and advertise them in misleading ways. Give the a-hole a piece of your mind, and try and get a refund...

For me, I like the appearance of my computer as is (it just looks more...professional, I guess), and it's fast so I'm happy :)...I don't tend to go crazy with all that mod stuff, the only thing I do is try and keep wires and cables orderly.

Try playing around with the settings in the ATI control panel (fast writes, etc.)...And leave the video card at AGP4X in that case, the difference between it and 8X is extremely minimal.

Try playing around with volume settings...What I would start with is turning everything in Windows all the way up, then adjusting the sound with the headphones/speakers to a good volume.

Power supply wattage?

If I were you I would definetly move it...Why have it there if you don't have to? It may not necessarily cause overheating, though it certainly might, but in that situation I would feel safer having moved it in any case.

Well, for future reference, that bad one is called the 9800SE.

As I said, ATI's drivers do that, as the only difference between pro and non pro is clock speeds.

Again, he said bit. Doesn't make much sense, but he did. So it is a NP.

1-As far as I know ATI video cards do this, i.e. 9700 being called a 9700 pro, etc. The only difference between them is clock speed, so it's ok. 2-He said 256-bit (I dunno why, but he did). All 9800's have a 256-bit memory bus...MB does not equal Bit. 3-Retail stores still sell the 9600 for...

Just fyi it's called the 9800 XT.

Those temps are high, and, honestly, a new motherboard isn't going to give you killer performance increases. It'll help, but not a ton, and if you are getting slowdowns in any case, it's not gonna be hardware that's limiting you, at least I wouldn't think so. Try and get your temperatures a...

Mine (Build By ATI) has run just fine with relatively high case temps (hey, it's summer and I don't like noise) of ~35-38C. No problems whatsoever.