What lower profile card do you recommend?

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This is for my mother's computer. She recently got a new 20" wide screen LCD monitor and her video card does not support the 1680x1050 resolution. She has an HP Pavillion a527x.
Here are some specs if you want to look at them:
Product specs
Motherboard info

She only uses her computer for movies and internet (no games). I don't want to spend extra money if it's not necessary, but I am ok with spending a bit more if you feel that it will really make a difference.

I have been looking at these two options on newegg. What is your opinion? Or would you suggest a totally different card? It needs to be AGP 4x/8x. I lean toward DDR2 and I personally like nVidia.

For $38:
Option 1 (BIOSTAR) 128MB DDR2

For $60:
Option 2 (PNY) 256 MB DDR2

I lean toward the less expensive one, just because I don't see her benefiting from the extra features of the PNY card, but I don't know if there is a big difference in the quality of the cards themselves.
Thanks for your input.
 
Wired said:
I would go with this one i had it and its a great card. was about 70 when I had it.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161151
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I checked that out and it seems to be well liked. However, it says it's not Vista-ready. I might update that computer to Vista later on and so I would prefer to have a video card that is compatible.

Also, what is the different between a card with 64-bit and DDR2 versus one with 128-bit and DDR ? What's better?
 
ddr2 is better, and you might have to spand more money to get one that is vista ready. vitsta is a little gpu intensive.
 
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