I have loads of software that I don't want to have to repurchase/upgrade and then relearn new U/I's. Plus there's features that may have gone away or changed. I also know the internals of W2K and XP very well in the event I need to do any tweaks. Further, I am getting old, probably won't be doing this more than 10 years, so overall for me the best choice is to stay with what I have and what i know.
I haven't found any such low-end graphics cards yet on eBay that don't have massive heat sinks or fans. The AGP cards I'm accustomed to work fine with Sonar and don't have any such appendages nor suck much power. So I'm confused, why are basic VGA kind of cards not available in PCIe format, that don't require heavy artillery and mass wattage to function? <facepalm>