Hmm Babdi
Can't understand your preference for nVidia, perhaps I was unlucky with my own two PC's
See my posting here for a few details on my nVidia experience:
http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/2158.page#8078

Be sure your new card has lots of Memory (512MB or more) and also make sure you get Support for its drivers and software coming along wth it.
I would recommend you to the product reviews on the Web, like Toms Hardware Guide:
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphics
Pick one having a good track record (performance etc.) AND having the functionality you want (PC Play centric, Video Editing usagec, etc.).
I have seen several referring to ATI as having good cards for Video capturing, for instance.

Have a nice New year
/PetRose

Having lots of on-board video ram isn't that important for video editing, it isn't like a 3D game where 100's of MB's of textures need to be shifted by the GPU.

Any video card with 128mb or more ram will be fine. More importantly look for the features you will require, like dual digital DVI sockets or s-video out, or HDCP compliance.

Whether you prefer Nvidia to any other make is your choice, but ATi have nearly always produced better picture quality in DirectX. Matrox make a range of cards specifically for video production. It would be silly to only consider Nvidia when they are probably not the best option here.

The best AGP card for a single core cpu would probably be the Radeon X1950PRO, you can get faster cards, but they would only be faster for playing high resolution games, not for running PD6.

A better upgrade to your system (assuming it's a S939 motherboard) would be a Athlon X2 cpu, the extra core is handy during rendering.

Well I upgraded to a 6800 512 MB NVidia card. The RAM with 2 GB things work like a song PC specs :
OS Windows 10.0 Pro
MB - AS rock Z77 extreme 11
Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
Gskill 32 GB RAM 1800 Mhz
6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
nVidia ASUS GTX 660 Ti
BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080

Nothing wrong with a 6800, I hope you didn't more than £50 for it though.

Nvidia Gforce 7600 Through Christ,
Chris

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e-GeForce 7600 GS http://www.evga.com/articles/284.asp[/url] Through Christ,
Chris

Texture is important if you are using Titling software. I use Bluff titler which is designed for pixel shader version 3. Hence the graphic card has to be compatible PC specs :
OS Windows 10.0 Pro
MB - AS rock Z77 extreme 11
Intel 3770K @ 4.0 Ghz OC
Gskill 32 GB RAM 1800 Mhz
6 TB HDD, SSD bootable
nVidia ASUS GTX 660 Ti
BenQ 22" LCD monitor 1920x1080