AGP Graphics card for Dell 3007WFP?

[HHarm]

I'm getting a 30 inch Dell 3007WFP screen. I have a 2.8 GHz P4 and an AGP Radeon 9800 Pro. In the future I plan to get a PC that can properly use the screens native resolution of 2560x1600 for gaming but for now I'll stick with my old PC. I do have to get a new graphics card though because 2560x1600 of any kind requires dual-link DVI. I'm looking for a cheap (not much more than ?100) AGP card. My only gaming requirement is that I can play Civilization 4 with full resolution.

I haven't followed PC hardware actively for years so I'm somewhat lost. Here's what I found out so far:

GeForce 7600 GS and GT cards seem like good choises. MSI has a silent GS with 512 MB of memory. Club 3D 7600 GT costs the same and would of course be more powerful but it has a noisy fan. If the GS is powerful enough for Civ4 then the silent card would be great, if not I would get the GT. I don't know of the actual requirements though.

I haven't found any good ATi cards in my price range. It seems the X1600 is less powerful than its rivals.

Anybody here with some helpful information on 2560x1600 gaming......

[smouty]

I think you will be out of luck. I don't think there are any AGP cards that support dual-link DVI.

[HHarm]

I think you will be out of luck. I don't think there are any AGP cards that support dual-link DVI.

There are quite a few. Here's one:

http://www.club-3d.com/productshow_v...=&filter=&l=en

At least AGP GeForce 7600 and 7800 and ATi X1600 and X1650 support it. Not all cards with the chipsets have it though.

[sj33]

The Sapphire X1600 Pro 512Meg AGP in my secondary machine says it supports Dual-Link DVI on the box.