New Graphics card recommendation on par with GeForce 9800GT

[retroborg]

Until now I was using an Albatron Geforce 9800GT 512MB card which I bought for ~100euros back in 2009.
http://www.mwave.com.au/productarchive.asp?sku=42050318

What was good about this card is that it had a 256bit memory bus / interface and pretty much every 3D game played nice and fast on high graphics settings @1280x1024 resolution (Aliens VS Predator 3, Rage, Command & Conquer 3 & 4, Duke Nukem Forever, Black Mesa Half Life Mod, HL2, etc...)

How ever it got toasted the other day, so I now I want to buy a new graphics card of at least equivalent performance and similar price range to play the upcoming Doom 3 BFG and some of the upcoming games. (Preferably nvidia as their drivers are better)

I checked the current nvidia cards, but noticed that all the cards of that price even though they have better & faster GPUs and more & better video RAM (DDR5 / 1GB/2GB), their memory bus / interface goes only up to 128bit or 192bit the most, which I imagine will bottleneck these cards.

Also I noticed that none of the current GFX cards feature a TV-Out output to connect my old CRT TV via Scart or RCA and I don't want to have to buy a new LCD/TFT TV.

My PC specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo @2.4GHZ
4GB Ram @800MHZ
Windows 7 32Bit
19" 4:3 TFT Eizo S1931 Monitor @60HZ

My motherboard Asus P5B-E:
http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_775/P5BE/#specifications

Features 1 x PCIe x16 slot to connect a GFX card on.

So which card should I get to cover my above needs?

Thanks in advance.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Look at benchmarks, not at the memory bus width or the amount of RAM.

For the exact same memory type at the same speed, 256 > 128. But RAM speed can make up for that, and the GPU power might be more important than the RAM bandwidth.

The only thing to be careful of is that a card review might show performance with fast GDDR5 RAM while a budget version of the same card number might use cheaper and slower GDDR3 instead.

Also I noticed that none of the current GFX cards feature a TV-Out output to connect my old CRT TV via Scart or RCA and I don't want to have to buy a new LCD/TFT TV.

Then it might make the most sense to buy a used older card with TV-out as a replacement.