Need new video card for PC

[BrianG]

Update to revive a dead thread:

Well, this "new" card is crapping out on me. Man, I am not liking ATI stuff.

The last few weeks, it's been doing this odd thing where the monitor acts like it is in sleep mode on a fresh boot. I have to put the PC to sleep, then rewake it for the monitor to come on. I borrowed the video card from my server box and it's definitely the card. Then last night, it went completely dead in the middle of surfing. I found a puffed cap so I replaced it with one I happened to have on hand, and the card works now, but is still doing the sleep thing. So, there's other stuff wrong with it.

This HD2600 has been a hassle from the start with its poor driver support. It's actually a PCIe card with an AGP bridge chip, so normal drivers don't work so well (and I've tried them all - even the hotfixes).

I am getting a new PC from the inlaws soon; they got it ~1 year ago, got a virus a couple times, got tired of that, so they just got a Mac. But until then, this is a PITA. Anyone still have any kind of AGP card in their junk boxes? I used to have a couple old spares to use, but they got wrecked in the flood last summer. At this point, anything that's AGP 4x/8x compatible will work, but don't want to spend a lot for something the kids will be inheriting soon.