Is the 9800gt a good card?

Basically it means your CPU is not fast enough for the GPU to operate as fast as its capable of. If thats a LGA775 motherboard I would upgrade your CPU too... Even if a lowend c2d or dual core Pentium.Captain__Tripps

$200 for a new CPU/moboX360PS3AMD05

Is your ram ddr2? I think you'd need a bit more than $200 to include a PSU. Whats your current PSU/specs? Captain__Tripps

Does the mobo have a pcie 2.0 slot for that vid card??Neo_revolution7

How is this gonna help answering if its a good card? 

Its a decent card depending on what kind of rez your gonna be running at, as others have stated, upgrading will be a good thing, my friend was in the same boat as you, and with 180 bucks he upgraded to a low end amd system to start out with (amd x2 5000, 2gb ram, and gigabyte mobo), I gave him my old 8600gt and he was good on his way. Anyways back to the subject, Yes its a decent bottleneck as others have also said, which has been told to me with my 3800x2 @ 9800gtx, and then im still getting 60+ fps maxed out in my low 1280x1024 rez.

Im not gonna link prebuilt systems, before more information is giving out, meaning what you gonna be doing on this computer? Besides of course gaming? If your like me, who games constantly, and the most things you will be running is wmp and firefox, you wont need to be spending a pretty penny, to do so and still play games at decent frames.

so for me to get full preformance in the video card and cpu , lets say i bought a duelcore 2.6-3.0 , i would need to upgrade my mobo?

so for me to get full preformance in the video card and cpu , lets say i bought a duelcore 2.6-3.0 , i would need to upgrade my mobo?

Head over to newegg.com Neo_revolution7

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It's a nice card. I am running it with a 550w PSU.

It gives a 5.9 score for both graphics on vista 64.