Buying video cards for 3 monitors

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My video card died in my work PC. It is an old Dell that had a 9800 pro in it. I have 3 1440x900 monitors, but had only been able to use 2 of the monitors. I have a 9250PCI card to run the 3rd monitor but it will not work with current AMD drivers and the old drivers it does work with will not support the monitor in 900x1440 mode (portrait).

I am looking at these 2 cards:

VisionTek 866-VIEK411 Radeon HD 2400PRO 512MB 64-bit DDR2 AGP 8X HDCP Ready Video Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814129137

SAPPHIRE 100262PCIL Radeon HD 2400PRO 512MB 64-bit DDR2 PCI HDCP Ready Video Card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102846

Do you see any problems with this? Will this let me use my existing AGP motherboard and get my 3 monitors going with 2 of them at 900x1440 and one of them at 1440x900? Any better suggestions? This is a work machine, no gaming or heavy graphics involved.

Cliffs:

-Old Dell with AGP slot.
-Need new cards to allow me to run 3 monitors, 2 @ 900x1440 one @1440x900
-Looking at 1 AGP 2400 Pro and 1 PCI 2400 Pro
 
If you are using Windows XP or Windows 7 you are supposed to be able to mix video card drivers to get your 3 monitor set up going, but from what I hear it's still a gamble as to whether it works well or not.

This could be important because I don't know where the cutoff is between driver packages going from 9250 to 2400PRO but my guess is those are separate driver packages so if you are on XP or Win7 it should still work, but Vista most likely not.
 
The 9250 and the 9800 used the same driver, up to a point. But using a driver that supported portrait mode would not support the 9250. My question is, will these 2 2400 pros, one PCI and one AGP play nice?
 
At work I have a few systems with 6 panels connected to them. They are in older Dell optiplex gx620s with HD2400s (I think they were XTs but might be pros). However, one was PCIe, and the other 2 were PCI.

Anyways, these work fine for what we use them for (monitoring tools). If someone were to actually actively use these systems though, it might suck since there is some lag when dragging windows between the screens.
 
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