Getting a new card

[TheSavior111]

So here's the thing,I want to do a PC upgrade but am tight on budget.I want a card that can run most games maxed out(i.e Battlefield 3,Crysis 2,Metro 2033,Witcher 2...) though AA and AF doesn't really matter,just want to turn all that eye candy on and have a good experience,though my monitor doesn't support resolutions higher than 1280x1024.If there's a cheap monitor and a good card that can run games maxed out on 1600x1200 or 1080p that would be good to know but no a primary goal at the moment.Plus I need a good CPU that wouldn't bottleneck the card. Any suggestions?
Specs are as follows:
1 Kingston 2GB RAM
Nvidia 9500GT
Acer AL1717
Core 2 Duo 2.93 GHz
500 GB HDD
D946GZIS motherboard(maybe I need to upgrade that to support dual slot cards,I don't really know)

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... well budget is everything... Most professional-Online gamers dont MAX OUT everything in Video details... to get faster reaction time.

To get to 1080p with your current system parts will take GTX460/560 and an 1080P monitor... and you will get high Details... around $300?

 

[ilysaml]

@ OP
Any high end GPU (HD 6950/70, GTX 570/560Ti) will max out some games @ 1080P.
For gaming at 1024x resoolution, a HD 6850/ GTX 460 will be overkill.

For the CPU thing, if your MOBO supports a quad core CPU upgrade to a used Intel Core2Quad 2.8 GHz or above

 

[wa1]

do not make 2 thread with the same topic, please...