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Hello all...I just bought a new Gateway Gt5694 with 4GB and a Quad core processor. I am going to buy the sims 3 when it comes out Feb 20th. The system requirements for the sims 3 have been posted on their website here The Sims 3 - News My graphics card is not listed and it doesnt run the sims 2 all that well anyway, (it is very fast however) I have done a little bit of research and I want to purchase a Nvidia graphics card for my computer. I'm leaning toward either a 9600 or a 9800. I have no clue which one to get because I don't know If it is compatible with my computer or if either card is even the one I need. Can someone please tell me?

I recently had to re-format and re install xp. All went well and i now have a working computer, however when viewing windows of any kind not just internet pages, both the sliding bar on the right of my screen and especially the scroll wheel on my mouse are painfully slow. I have adjusted all the settings i know how to but it has not improved at all. All the drivers say they are working correctly, but it seems the whole page scrolls down one line at a time as if i was still on dial up. Any ideas guys?

Transmeta said Thursday that the company had licensed its LongRun technology to Nvidia, providing the graphics chip maker access to low-power technology. Nvidia will pay Transmeta $25M for a non-exclusive license to the technology, which includes both the LongRun and LongRun2 technologies. Since bowing out of the chipset market in 2005 - a process it completed in 2007 - Transmeta has since focused almost exclusively on licensing its existing low-power technologies to other chip firms. In 2007, AMD invested $7.5M in the company. Later that year, Intel agreed to pay a one-time fee of $150M and $20M per year for five years to settle a patent suit. "We are very pleased to have achieved this license agreement with Nvidia," said Les Crudele, president and chief executive of Transmeta, in a statement. "We believe that this agreement both illustrates the value of Transmeta's intellectual property and technologies to our industry and realizes for Transmeta stockholders an immediate return from the strategic licensure of our intellectual property rights." Low-power technologies could be used in a variety of ways, both to improve Nvidia's mobile chipsets and graphics chips, as well as its handheld offerings and MIDs.Perhaps more importantly, the technology might be used as a counter for the thermal issues Nvidia recently experienced. Transmeta Licenses Low-Power Tech to Nvidia - News and Analysis by PC Magazine