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I expected them to sound like Dustbusters since powerful video cards need a lot of cooling, but they're actually very quiet because NVidia invented a very good cooling system for them.

The cooling system on Asus cards are designed by Asus, not Nvidia. And in any case, this was only because the last Nvidia top-end card, the 5800 Ultra, was an absolute fiasco as far as the cooling went.

Your current card is AGP. With $500-600, you might want to consider replacing your motherboard as well as your video card, since AGP cards have limited upgradability. A cheap brand-name NForce 4 board costs about $100. You should have JUST enough money for a Geforce 7800GTX.