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It's my birthday this Friday and CharlottesMum has offered to get me a new graphics card, namely the above mentioned

My birthday is on Friday too! I think could get away with your current PSU as long as it has the required power connectors but I would advise getting a more powerful one. Oh, and don't plan on playing DX10 games on an HD2600. Even the HD2900XT's and the 8800's have trouble running DX10... much less an HD2600XT.

350 is a bit low. The 2600 is not that powerful of a card but I think you may need a bit more power than 350 to make sure it has all the juice it needs.

Hooking the card to a different monitor makes no difference in power needs, however, to run higher resolution you do the right video memory for the frame buffer. They make a 128, 256 and 512MB version of the card. For very high res you need 512. 256 would be the lowest I would go with typical resolutions (below 1600x1200) 128Mb would not be an upgrade.

Cheers, I've ordered this which is turning up at the same time (hopefully) as the graphics card.
Thanks for all your help

The card and PSU turned up this morning, all installed and running sweeeet  :)
I'm gonna fire up FS9 this afternoon and give it a test run  8-)