Need a recomendation based on my usage

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Gawd
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I'm looking to pick up a new graphics card this summer, but I don't want to get something expensive that will outperform what I need it to do. I'm a college student so I need my money for other things, for the most part, so I don't want to spend more than a couple hundred dollars on this. My main concern is that that I have 24" Dell widescreen, so I prefer to run my games at the the monitors native 1920 x 1200. My 7800GT handles this well enough for WoW and TF2 and EVE Online, but it could be better, particularly for TF2, which I have to run in dx8 if I want a good framerate and some AA/AF.

I'm looking for a card that will allow me to run multiple clients of EVE across the dell and my old 19" CRT, and one that will handle some light Maya modeling and animation. My current one can handle the dual monitors passably well, but it could be a lot smoother. I'm not really doing any intense gaming, but being able to run at full resolution and handle multiple displays/maya is what is important to me, so I'd like to get a card that is the biggest bang for my buck here. Any recommendations?
 
8800GT should perform relatively well in this situation, or for a bit less money, the 9600GT.
 
The 8800gts cards will soon be really cheap so watch that space especially when the 9800gts is released!
 
If you can find one of those 3870's at CC for 130, thats your best deal. If not, then I'd suggest:

8800gt/s,9600/9800, or 3870/50.
 
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