Help on buying an AGP video card

"cphillips581" wrote in message
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We are buying a Samsung SyncMaster 225BW 22'' LCD screen as a gift for
a family member. The screen says the Native Resolution is 1680 x 1050.
The only monitors I have ever owned were CRT's, so I don't understand
the ramifications of that.

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.

TIA

As others have stated (and they are correct) the 22" LCD MUST be run at 1680
X 1050. This is going to require a video card with a lot of RAM *ON* the
video card. Whatever you go with, make sure it has at least 256MB of RAM on
it. The following is a good budget choice, and it will run all current
games just fine, unless the user is a hard-core gamer that won't be
satisfied with anything less than maximum frame rates.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150107

If the user is more of a gamer, the following looks good too, but costs a
bit mo

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125039