New AGP GFX card help?

[GlacierMint]

Hey all!

What with Elder Scrolls Oblivion arriving soon I thought I'd get a new gfx card. Problem is I'm on an Abit IC7-MAX3 board so AGP only And no, I can't afford a new motherboard.

So the question is...Which card to get? I've been away from the market for a while so have no clue how all the numbering on the cards works now. Is a 1600 better than an 800? :/

Current card is a Hercules 3D Prophet 9800XT Classic.

PC Spec:

P4 3.2 Extreme Edition
IC7-Max3
1Gb OCZ PC4000
2x74Gb Raptors in RAID1

Thanks for any help!!

Baggy

 

[GlacierMint]

Better than PowerColor ATI Radeon X850 XT 256MB DDR3 or the Sapphire X1600 Pro 256MB DDR2? And why the 6800 not the 7800?

 

[GlacierMint]

Have I stumbled on an ATI\NVIDIA thorn perchance?

 

[GlacierMint]

Got it So why the 6800 not the 7800 then?