Windows XP Pro, 98SE, and ATI 9600XT

[Guest Dann]

Make sure any new motherboard you get has a "universal" AGP slot if you want to keep the Voodoo 5 card. The newer, 8x AGP slotted boards are keyed differently, and will not accept the Voodoo card.I speak from experience!Dan

[Guest jonpoint]

Chris,Pick em? Yep! As one who doesn't use all the latest games (FU3 is still #1 at my place) there is simply no necessity to use anything better. It will simply be wasted. The FX5200 is good value for money and does 9000% more than FU3 could ask it to. Extras? It allows more control of functions than a TI4600 did 2 years ago. Performance? Again, in 'FU3 land', it's the processor that matters.Besides, I'm lucky enough to know a designer for Nvidia! After careful consideration, he recommended that one need go no higher than the FX for FU3. He also explained that, due to FU3's heavy processor loading, one wouldn't see much difference between 2x AGP and 4x - he was right ;) Now, when it comes to gigatexels and billions of polygons per second, guess what? We're stuck with DX7 capability which precludes using the extensions that would benefit us.I'm not saying that better cards don't give better performance but you have to ignore 99% of the hype - and this is coming from a designer. I asked what difference I could expect if I used a TI vs. the FX. He said my wallet would be thinner afterwards...One thing I must add here. One reason why 98SE often runs better than XP is overheads. Few people know how to optimise XP anyway (and I wouldn't bother - again...) and all the systems I've seen are choked with cutesy but dumb processes that sap your resources.:-wave******************* Jonathan Point *******************