really want a twin head, although I may be able to keep the Intel working as a second card?

I more or less followed that stream of consciousness of yours. I have the feeling you're making excessive demands on an older machine. If you're using Win98SE I'm assuming you don't have a brand new machine that you put an old OS on. The question arises: will the new OS (XP Pro is better than XP home, blah blah blah) substantively improve things, if your hardware is so old? Add a few devices to upgrade the old machine and you've about paid for a new one, that's the way of the computing world.

To answer your question about the twin head, is this because you want to use two monitors? My computer had the typical one port for the monitor, but when I went to two monitors to take advantage of a higher resolution flat screen CRT I own, I ended up getting an NVidia card for about $100 (after rebate). It took me some tinkering to get it set up (moving the desktop was more difficult than I thought it would be), but in the end you are best off with both ports on the same card, not on two different cards. I guess I could set another monitor on (I think this system will run up to four of them) the older port, but there's no point in it.

SRS