My wife uses a Compaq S3010CL (Sam's Club model from 2004) for
her business work. She is interested in a 22" widescreen LCD
monitor. The native resolution on these is 1680x1050.

The onboard video is VIA-S3 which does not appear to support
1680x1050.

I would like to know if anyone is aware of a video card that can
be installed in this PC which can support that 1680x1050
resolution.
The available slots are a PCI and an AGP4x 1.5v.

This is a business machine for her newspaper. Gaming is
occasional Solitaire. It does not have a DVD unit, and she has
no interest in watching movies on it. Her application software
is 2D. She wants the larger monitor to make it easy to work on
wide spreadsheets, and give her larger graphic images to work
with in her layout software (Corel Draw 9 Suite - Don't laugh,
it gets the job done very well)

It appears that a Radeon 9550 would provide the desired
resolution, but would have issues. It is reported to run hot,
which also means it uses a fair amount of power. The supply is
only 200 watts. Is there a simple video card out there which can
provide the resolution, but won't cause a big thermal and power
load to provide gaming performance she has no need for. Before
we would upgrade the power supply, fans etc., we would get a new
PC
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Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg