Alright-
I finally can start to feel good about what is inside of my case as I beging to hit the home stretch of one long upgrade process.
Current setup:
4coreDual - Sata2 board (I believe I still have the 1.5 bios that it came with)
Q6600 (picked up last night) still at the stock speed (less 5%) with a coolermaster HyperTX2 cooler
2 gig of DDR2-800 Super Talent
PCP&C S61EPS Power Supply
ATI X1300Pro AGP 256mb
Coolermaster Ammo Box Case
In the near future, I wanted to somewhat cap off this process with a new video card, and one of the cards I was looking at was the
EVGA 9800 GTX+ due to the price. If the link doesn't work, it is item # N82E16814130416
Between free shipping, and the dropped cost, along with the free COD5 game, I thought it was a pretty good deal for a decent card plus I have been wanting to add COD4 or 5 to my games to play as right now I am pretty much capped with Battlefield 1942 and Vietnam due to video card.
What all am I looking at to possibly get this card to work with my mobo? (I am guessing a flash on the bios for the mobo, but anything else?)
How much will the performance of the card be affected by this mobo due to the x4 pci-e?
or
Am I better off upgrading the mobo also when I make this video card step? (if it is going to be to much of a PITA to get it all working and keep it running I am better off probably getting a different board as my wife also uses this computer for email and internet surfing and she knows zero about trouble shooting a pc)
Thanks,
Steve