POS=Piece of Shit.

I must say I'm sorry to have come on so strong. Sometimes I get mad when people blame stuff on the card. You did say the card locks the PC up, did you not? For all we know it could be a number of things, including a weak PSU (how are your voltages on the 12 and 5 Volts rails?) memory timings being too tight, or even a heat issue (could be CPU or card itself). Most 9600 Pros though come with very good cooling allowing amazingly high core overclocks with the stock cooling.