In need of a new graphics card....

[caravel]

The one I have, Radeon 9000 Pro 64MB AGP is really showing it's age now. "It was showing it's age a few years ago!" I hear you say... well it probably was, but now it's positively groaning when trying to run EB, and I would like to get MTW running a bit better as well.

The motherboard I have is one venerable GA-7VTXE+. This board has never failed me, never given any problems and has run everything I've thrown at it in the past, so I prefer to stick with it for now. The CPU is an Athlon XP 2400+, and the system has 1GB of DDR 266 SDRAM.

I'm not really up to speed with the latest hardware having lost interest some years ago. So what would be the best AGP graphics card to go for and which brand, Nvidia or ATI? I am looking for something fairly cheap, that will tide me over until I upgrade the whole lot in a year or so.

Thanks in advance


Caravel