Okay, Greg, lemme just tell you that your processor, motherboard, and cpu combo deserve a much better video card!

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I know that you say you had a bad experience with the ATI video card, but quite frankly you bought one of the worst examples.
Give ATI one more try by buying the 9600XT, you can overclock that mother to out perform the 9800 Pro.
I recommend the Gigabyte 9600XT. I buy that for many of my customers and they are very happy with the price/performance ratio.