Well I have stayed away from DX9 for the moment. I am gonna wait and see how other people do with it I did get a new MB though.... got an Asus A7N8X Nforce2. It is pretty sweet. I unlocked my 2400+ yesturday and am runing at 12.5 x 170mhz and I now get the following in 3dmark DROOL :P

3DMark Score 15228
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 207.0 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 71.9 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 293.8 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 154.1 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 194.6 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 86.0 fps
Game 4 - Nature 101.8 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 1778.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 2546.8 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 64.5 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 14.8 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 156.6 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 204.3 fps
Vertex Shader 199.6 fps
Pixel Shader 211.8 fps
Advanced Pixel Shader 200.4 fps
Point Sprites 38.8 MSprites/s

SYSTEM INFO

System Info Version 2.2
Installation ID 0x00000000
OEM ID

CPU INFO
CENTRAL PROCESSING UNITS
Manufacturer AMD
Family ThoroughBred
Internal Clock 2.13 GHz
Internal Clock Maximum 3 GHz
External Clock 169 MHz

I am extremely happy with the results. I have yet to OC my vid card so that number will be sure to climb I am wanting to hit 16000 now

-Goob