[astroglide]

civ4 runs on my 1920x1200 laptop fine with a geforce 6800 go (mobile version, not as powerful as the desktop one). as far as brands, i would avoid xfx for now - check out the geforce6 forums there for the 'fire hazard' thread, there are 6600GTs that are popping a specific mosfet off the card consistently with actual fire. vaguely stated to be corrected now.

there will probably be agp versions of all cards for some time, it's just that the high end is pushing out pci-e versions first (they always rush to market with everything asap with new products) before doing the ones with agp bridges.