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Are you running a kms enabled kernel?

If you are, load the radeon module Before you start X.
You can do so manually or by adding it to modprobe.preload.

AFAIK all dvi to hdmi adapters are the same and will provide both video and audio.
The adapter that came with my gigabyte 3870 is generic.

The more important question to ask is does your your...

Rather than the 3112A chip, which is sata 1.5 I would suggest spending a couple dollars more and getting a card which uses either the SIL 3124 or 3132, both of which are SataII 3.0.

Charles

I had meant to post sooner but got tied up with other endeavours.

If you are still undecided I am here to offer some opinions.

The only items that glares out at me in your list is the power...

Forget about any X-Fi card They are not supported in linux.
Know nothing about Asus cards.

If you find that you do have the available pci slot and do not use the Augigy look at the HT Omega...

N , it is contained within the Xorg-ati driver pkg but it is not the same driver.

The pkg is comprised of 4 drivers
ati
mach64
r128
radeon

Of the 4 Only ati offers full support for 9xxx...

With a Mobility Radeon 9600 it will use a mobility chipset
based on the RV350.

Its performance should be equal too or a little better than with the FX5600.
Were you using a sandard 9600 card the...

You might be able to squeak by with a 430 watt PW
but I would Strongly recommend at minimum a 500watt PW.
I personally have had poor results with Antec and
much prefer Thermaltake.

I am using...

It should alo be noted that this release also supports x86_64 arch

This is fixed in the 8.39.4 driver posted by ATI on 7/25.
If you are using a distro pkg it will need to be rebuilt using the new 8.39.4 installer.

Charles