Low Resolution Graphics Card 1024 x768 ?

Hello

Ive been on and off tese boards quite alot with some system specs and what im gonna put in my new PC.

I today plugged my old PC with a AGP ATI 1600into my HDTV, to see if its worth it

A few tweaks and its looking good to be honest. But anyway

I realise That because im using this HDTV my resolutions will be limited, SO buying a ATI 4870 would be a waste of money.

So can anyone please recommend a Good Low res graphics card? I was looking around the 260 AND 4850 area

Also...isit worth going 64bit vista, I want to be as future proof as possable ( NOT i7)

Here are my proposed Specs(minus a graphics card)

CPU: Quad Core Q9550

PSU: FBS 600w

CPU Cooler: Silent Knight II

Ram: 2 x 2GB 800Mhz DDR2

Motherboard: Asus P5Q Deluxe

O.S: Vista Home premium 64bit

HDD: 320GB 700rpm

Thanks for reading

Well to start off is you think the ATi 4870 might be a waste of money then so is the GTX260 as they would full into the same level of performance more or less.

What size screen is your HDTV im not sure as to why you think a lower level graphics card is the way to go? Sure if its 19inch to 22inch yeah but if its 32inch or more the better the graphics card you will need as the TV could go upto 1080p.

Would they? Wow I though the GTX280 and ATI 4870 were on the same level not the 260 and 4850 Thanks for the knowledge

Also, Yea ive got a 23" HDTV 720p / 1080i but ive got itlooking perfect on my old PC using 1280 x 768

Games look great, my eye need to get used to widescreen and im gonna mke the text size bigger, but everything else is perect :-)

Would they? Wow I though the GTX280 and ATI 4870 were on the same level not the 260 and 4850 Thanks for the knowledge

Also, Yea ive got a 23" HDTV 720p / 1080i but ive got itlooking perfect on my old PC using 1024 x 768

Games look great, my eye need to get used to widescreen and im gonna mke the text size bigger, but everything else is perect :-)

Awww right, I thoughtthe 260 and the 4850 were a grade down or somthing Please note the resolution implaying on is 1280 x 768, Not 1024 x 768, that was a typeo sorryJoker1232003

Is it the older GTX260 or is it the newer more powerful GTX260 216 that might be why its more expensive or it could just be ATi undercutting nVidia :)

They are both really good cards that are very close performance wise so go for whatever your buget can strech to!

GTX260 With the wierd amount of memory like 886mb or somthing Im sure it was the other way round the other day lolJoker1232003