Aight for tech junkies out there (im damn sure b'boo will be alot of help here)...you guessed it by the thread's title. Im looking into buying a new video card and some ram for my desktop computer to be able to run ArmA just fine.

Here's my story. As some of you may (or may not) know, im currently playing ArmA on my DELL laptop.

Its doing great...except the fact that I think I might have busted something on my video card...why am I saying this? Well basically my screen does NOT work (pretty useful for a laptop uh?) either when I boot the bitch up or it *rarely* just stops working when im doing something else(once while on ArmA and another while browsing the web just to name a few) and it has recently stopped working on external display (when I hook my pc monitor on my laptop it wont work as it used to) and today, display brightness adjustment (you know on a laptop..when you change your screen brightness) stopped working. It might also be a loose connection inside the screen itself. Anyways i'll got have a chat with DELL this week on a day off.

Anyway...back on topic (btw if any of you guys have an idea how i can fix this laptop problem...). Last time I've been up to date with PC hardware was when I built my current desktop rig 4years or so ago. Back in the day PCI mobos where out of price range for a guy like me who had no job at all. All I had was the money to buy some good (not extra) PC.

Here's the trick...im now looking into upgrading my PC (ultimately, it needs a SLI motherboard, SLI video card and RAM update) just so I can play Armed Assault PERFECTLY fine and I dont have the money right now for a total revamp (saving for when ArmA 2 hits).

So I'm looking into a good AGP (guess most AGP cards are pretty affordable nowadays), maybe the best AGP Video card, that could run ArmA...Or is it just not possible?

What should I get?

Also I currently have 516mb of DDR 400mhz RAM (yes you can laugh...it was all i was able to afford) and I'm looking into buying something like 3gb.

To resume...
Im looking into a great AGP card, maybe the best one out there, for an afforable price (dont mind if its an Nvidia or ATI, see 3 lines under for current motherboard on my desktop).
2-3gb of RAM

My current desktop settings (RAM aside) is:
Motherboard:Asus P4P 800 SE
Video Card: Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600XT 256mb

As I said, im not up to date with current hardware so this is why I'm asking fellow Armed Assault players what they think. My budget is around 275, 325 MAXIMUM, otherwise i know somebody (yes...a she) that might rip my head off.