K7N420 and ATI 9500 Pro work???

I am thinking of purchasing a 9500 pro 128mb video card and would like to get opinions...
I am nervous about buying a $200 card and not having it work.
Anyone know if they would play nice together?
Problems with this combo?
TIA
Jmustang1968
Longtime reader first time poster.

If no one posts with any experience, I can say I have had the AIW8500 I think that was the model w/64mb.
My Asus GF3 Ti200 64mb blew it out of the water in my opinion.
It was ok and it worked without a hitch. I have seen users with the new 9700 and it works nicely.
The three systems I saw firsthand, in person were all running XPhomey.
If you can wait and see what develops you might be glad you did. :D

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Hello,
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Bye,
Grom.

55°C at full use with the case openned (usually it's near 62°C with the case closed).
lol:)
;( youll cry soon
my advice buy a copper cylinder fan adjustable version good to 3ghz cpu
will take temp down to 30 degrees
this temp is far too hot man
?( your processor will fry
also most of the better heatsinks
come with a little plastic pouck of heatsink "gunk"
this type of silicone greese is also very differeant from the normal trasistor stuff from hobby shops and catalogues
and has far better thermal properties than the types avalibel
so using it and stashing the left stuff is a good idea
when buying a new fan
be sure it fits in the space first
incase the psu is on top of the cpu space
etc
also buying a psu with two fans in it will give much better flow
better 30 - 40 that 55 - wow 62 degrees
{very hot!!!!}
i think you also need a case fan to pull air out the case or into it via another case fan
some people use a cooler unit mounted to the case to cool it in hot country
or a snale fan and a tube froma tumble dryer to mount the fan outside
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if the palimino runs that hot its out of normal range
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bobenis
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Read a few problems with these. But looks like things are fine now.
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Examples:
http://static.flickr.com/39/77612780675feadba0o.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/42/7761277964b07c6811o.jpg
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Hey, Chris...
Chipset Model: ATY,R350
Type: Display
Bus: AGP
Slot: SLOT-1
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Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x4e48
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-A14402-126
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