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Help on buying an AGP video card
"cphillips581" wrote in message Is it ok to run the monitor in 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 or will it look terrible. If a new video card is required, can you please recommend an AGP model that's not too costly. The LCD monitor should be run in its native resolution to give you the best image quality. Some high-end LCD monitors do a better job of displaying images in non-native resolutions, but that Samsung monitor uses the TN panel which is poor at displaying images in non-native resolutions. As for an AGP card, the Radeon X850 Pro is your best bet ($100). It's one of the fastest AGP cards and will have no problem driving the LCD in 1680x1050. |
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Help on buying an AGP video card
"Fidelis K" wrote in message ... "cphillips581" wrote in message Is it ok to run the monitor in 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768 or will it look terrible. If a new video card is required, can you please recommend an AGP model that's not too costly. The LCD monitor should be run in its native resolution to give you the best image quality. Some high-end LCD monitors do a better job of displaying images in non-native resolutions, but that Samsung monitor uses the TN panel which is poor at displaying images in non-native resolutions. As for an AGP card, the Radeon X850 Pro is your best bet ($100). It's one of the fastest AGP cards and will have no problem driving the LCD in 1680x1050. I'll second the recommendation for the x850 as it's a terrific card (for an AGP) but the OP didn't actually tell us what is already in the PC! Their current card may be just fine. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows |
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Help on buying an AGP video card
The monitor is a gift, so I am unsure what video card is in the PC already, but I am fairly certain it's a very low end card. The place he bought the pc from is out of business now and they wouldn't have provided a very good card. I have an All-In-Wonder Radeon 9600 XT 128 MB card in this PC which I could give him if that would be good enough. I still have an older nVidia card I could use for myself. The person receiving the gift isn't really a big gamer. He uses it for Excel, web surfing and things of that nature as far as I know. The OS in use is Windows 98 SE I believe. I think they might be looking at a new PC fairly soon, but I am not sure they include a decent enough graphics card to use the monitor, so would they have to upgrade the new PC with a better video card? Thanks again Whoa, that changes things. If they are going to upgrade the PC soon, then they will want PCI-Express. So any card you give or buy for them now would be useless, if it's AGP format. -Dave |
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