Video Card Recommendations

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

I am looking for a recommendation for a new video card, and I hope that
the intrepid TLUG can help.

Requirements:
I would like to, eventually, be able to run a 1080p TV as a second
monitor.  This is probably the tricky bit - but all of the cards I read
about say Dual, and I don't know who to trust.

Can run a few basic games - I have bought the Humble Indie Bundle the
last two years, and some of the games exceed the capabilities of my
onboard Intel GMA 3100 (though Aquaria, World of Goo, Gish, Machinarium,
Osmos (a really beautiful game) and Samrost all work perfectly).

PCI-e x16 is available on my motherboard.

I'd prefer to spend less money rather than more.  I assume that an
nVidia powered card is what I want - I plan to use the open source
driver unless it is absolutely necessary.  I have a 22" LCD right now,
running at 1680x1050, but it may get upgraded at some point.

Any suggestions?  Thanks.
-- 

yours,

William

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