30" Cinema display graphics card recommendation

Pathetic apple customer service refused to supply me with a recommendation since my G5 is out of warrantee date. So perhaps this forum can help. I have a Dual 2GHz Power PC G5 running 10.4.10 with a ATI Radeon 9800 Pro card. This will only go to 1280 x 800; I need 1280 x 1600.
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I do mostly photo work and scientific processing- almost no video
I will not add a second monitor
Recommendations please?
many thanks in advance...
Peter
btw, I bought two of these monitors, one for home and one for the office. Having spent almost $4K , how can apple refuse to speak with a customer unless he pays for support?
Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.10) 4.5 GB DDR SDRAM
Dual 2 GHz PowerPC G5 Mac OS X (10.4.8) 4.5 GB DDR SDRAM

The AGP cards Apple sold that have dual-link DVI ports needed for 30" are:
ATI Radeon 9650 XT (one single-link, one dual-link DVI)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT DDL (two dual-link DVI)
NVIDIA GeForce 6800 Ultra DDL (two dual-link DVI)
Apple doesn't sell these as retail items, but you might find some at
<http://www.welovemacs.com/agpg5vica.html>
There are two new graphics boards that will work:
ATI Radeon® X800 XT MAC Edition RoHS 256MB AGP (one ADC, one dual-link DVI)
<http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=3170810>
ATI Radeon® 9600 Pro PC & MAC Edition RoHS 256MB AGP (one single-link, one dual-link DVI)
<http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=3170809>
The ATI cards may also be available at
<http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/video/hardware/>

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