your bios should have some options, I know mine does have alot of options, I have an MSI ms7093 board socket 939, I don't know which version you have but if its the same as mine check out your bios on setup. Mine has a clock setting, AGP aperture, ram allocation and few other settings I can't remember but i don't use on board. As for the 9250 it beats it simply by being DX9 compatible. If you can get the x1900 at least you have decent onboard compared to intel extreme and it should hold you over while you save for the better add in card.