I had already upgraded my PSU to a 300 W when I installed the 9800. P 4 2.2 1024 MB ATI 9800 Pro 128

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The Radeon X850XT PE is also an AGP card, I have one :D If you want an upgrade over the Radeon 9800 Pro I would recommend getting an ATI X800XT, it's an awesome card But you might have to upgrade the power supply again, would recommend at least 400w

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I'm seeing a lot of misconceptions regarding video cards. Putting in a $200 won't necessarily make your system perform better. Same with a $600 card. If your CPU can't feed the card with data to process at the speed the video card is going, you wasted your money. A 9800 Pro continues to improve in performance all the way up to a Pentium 4 3GHz. That tells me if you upgrade your graphics card and not your CPU, you're not gonna gain much, because the CPU you currently have (2.2GHz) isn't even feeding the 9800 Pro fast enough. You should be upgrading your CPU, either on the same board, or upgrade the whole motherboard, CPU, and fan, and if you want to install a better gfx card at the same time, by all means go for it. However, I don't see buying just a gfx card right now as a wise purchase. "President Bush is doing everything he can to lower gas prices, including...making the oil companies so rich that maybe they'll get sick of money."

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Considering you have a 9800 Pro (which is still a decent card), I really don't see a need to upgrade at this time. Asus A7N8X-X 1800+ @ 8.5 x 200MHz 768MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro

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i agree with jam, don't bother upgrading unless you want to upgrade the rest of your system aswell, you won't get much of a performance increase if you go with the x800 pro as it only has 12 pixel pipelines, and if you upgrade to a more expensive card than that you will propably see no performance increase as your processor is not good enough, as 'hero' mentioned before

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