If you don't have to meet industry standards, this seems to be a reasonable decision plus this card will allow you to run some good games, too. I use a 7600GS and I'm fairly satisfied with it. The...

Even though there is some confusion about emulated pixel shaders in openGL games - pixel and vertex shaders are hardware functions. They have to be supported by the GPU and most games don't support...

General advice:

For your applications, signal (=image) quality is the most important criteria when choosing a card. Spikey signals, bad RAMDACs, slow signal rise times and so on are pretty...

I know, it's always that way* - but the symptoms always differ slightly and yours don't point so much to a mobo/BIOS issue for me. But I can be proven wrong. :) What chipset does this Dell have?...

The only way to get sure about that would be to test another, similar card in your computer or your card in another computer. The symptoms are not *that* conclusive. I hope it's the card and not the...

Does not sound good, sorry..

There is a tiny chance that the color settings for this monitor output are all wrong, if you're unaware that image adjustment is independent for each monitor in the...

That's pretty evil...I don't dare to ask if that happens on a freshly installed system... Makes me think even more that either the card appears to be defective or your board has a problem. I guess...

Hmmm... the "visual effects" sound pretty much like a driver problem. Which Catalyst driver do you use?
Unfortunately, the x600 has no temperature sensor AFAIK to check if that's the problem.
Are...

What kind of corruption? Artifacts? (bleeding, texture errors, funny colors at some spots?) Stripes? Black screen?

Yes you mentioned some probs in the other thread - as you know, the reason for that can be pretty much everything including compatability issues, but that (occurring under high load only) points to...

That's what many people thought when they sold their GF4200-4800 and purchased a GF 5xxx series card...:mrgreen: Even though the x1600pro has newer technology (DX9c vs. DX9b support), the performance...

The prices for a X800pro or Geforce 7600GS are not much higher (+ 10 Pounds) ) and they are the current much recommended entry level cards with a half-decent performance. But the older x1600 is not...

This clearly indicates that the driver took some time out and doesn't work on a Sunday. This happens with 98. Just reinstall the nVidia driver. (I would take the driver that was on the system, no...

According to this FAQ
http://radel.inet.net.nz/m810lmr.html
some FX5200 run on this series of MoBos and some don't. In general, many cards won't run stable without reducing the AGP speed to 1x,...