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Graphics card noob needs help!

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Hi guys - as per the title I'm a bit of a graphics card noob and after much web-trawling and forum browsing I'm still in the dark over which card to choose, you guys seem to be the most clued up so I thought I'd ask my question here:

I'm basically looking for a card that will let me run two monitors at the same time (not showing the same thing). I currently have a Samsung SyncMaster 172W at native 1280x768 and I've got a Dell 2405FPW turning up sometime this week and I also want to run it at the native 1900x1200. Ideally I'd like to have these connected by DVI but I don't really mind the 172W being on VGA. I need an AGP card and I have around £200 to spend. I don't intend to game with the monitors - just graphics / video work. Any recommendations would be much appreciated! I was looking at the BFG 6800 Ultra but that would mean upgrading my PSU too. Please help!

Here's my system (Don't laugh!):

AMD Athlon XP 1.24GHz
1.5 GB of RAM
MSI K7N2-Delta Mainboard


Thanks again - :)
 
Thanks for the welcome! Looks like I'm already getting a strong indication of what to use (man I'm glad the store is only a click away to read up on these things:) )

(Nice to see a Naruto sig around too)
 
Just so I'm absolutely sure, that card will let me run both panels at the same time at their native resolutions? (What's confusing me is that when I add the two resolutions together, they are larger than the max res of the card.) I'm so dense on these things. - Thanks again!
 
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