Need advice on replacing dying monitor

[spwango]

I have a 21" Nokia 445Pro (Trinitron), and the screen is starting to destabilize. It will not hold the default screen geometry at most resolutions (it snaps in and out of different sizes/shapes), so it's days are numbered. I'm currently trying to figure out what makes sense for me in terms of upgrading it.

My current system is a socket 754 AMD 64 3000+ with an MSI K8T Neo-FSR, 1 Gig of PC2700, and a Radeon 9800 NON Pro...

I play mostly shooters, Q3, Halflife2, UT2004, Far Cry, Etc and do a lot of text-based work as well. I want either a 21" CRT or a 19" LCD. I'm currently leaning towards the ImageQuest L90D+. If I go down this road, am I going to be forced to upgrade my machine to push a higher resolution? If so, what should I do about that? Just go buy a faster AGP board or rebuild the whole system for socket 939 and PCIE?

Thanks for any advice

 

[ribbon13]

NEC\Mitsubishi FP2141SB-BK or the L90D+ would be excellent choices.

If you want to support the next gen 939 processors, upgrade everything. Otherwise buy a new vid card. If you do upgrade to 939, I suggesting an ATi X800 XL, especially if you get the L90D+. At its resolutionm you should ge good to go for quite a while.

 

[spwango]

Is it foolish to buy an AGP board at the moment? I'm mostly happy with my rig with the exception of my video board...it really could use an upgrade...does anyone make a decent socket 754 mobo with PCIE?