What kind of card should I buy-- or do I really need to spend $300?

Hi everyone--
I'm hoping for some suggestions. I have a 23" Apple Cinema Display HD -- I think it's the ADC connector (no power brick which is nice). I'm tired of the stock 9600 card and need a graphics boost. My needs are probably pretty limited. Here are the things I'd like to do:
Run quicktime movies (or more specifically movies from iTunes) full screen at 720p or better (currently only the 480 will work without frame rate problems)
Stream video from sites like abc news or ign.com (I have to reduce a browser window to the smallest possible size to keep the frame rates up).
I was looking at the x800 but maybe it's too much processor for me? I won't be doing much from a Photoshop/Aperture/RAW image processing.
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: Power Mac G5
Model Identifier: PowerMac7,2
Processor Name: PowerPC 970 (2.2)
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number Of CPUs: 2
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 6 GB
Bus Speed: 1 GHz
Boot ROM Version: 5.1.5f0
Thanks in advance!

I upgraded my 128MB ATI 9600 for a 256MB NVIDEA 6800 GT DDL and you can see the difference.
Full HD divx plays flawlessly, that said the ATI was just the same, the biggest thing for me is i can play Halo with my lad and though the graphics on his ATI 512MB P4 are in a different league, i can now see the details that the 9600 was missing.
On a plus for me there is no need to use a molex splitter (which you may need for a pc flashed card, nothing wrong with that) as the NVIDEA takes the extra power it needs from the ADC mini port on the logic board yet it has 2 DVI's.
It cost me £100 for the 6800 GT but i sold the ATI for £70 so all in all a relatively cheap upgrade.

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