Re: Video card for the 'bargain' Dell widescreen monitors

[Richard Malcolm-Smith <rich@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Bird wrote:

> I fell prey to bargain hunting and bought one of the Dell widescreen
> monitors (1680 by 1050). It arrived in good time and doesn't seem to
> have any dead pxels which I am very glad about. Anyway.........
>
> It seems my rather outdated ATI all-in-wonder 128 Pro AGP doesn't
> speak Dell in that I cannot get the native resolution to work even
> with the latest drivers.

> Does anyone have any recommendations for a nice cheap video card
> about say 25 quid (no fans please) that will support this monitor at
> its native resolution. Ironically my laptop supports it after
> installing the inf supplied.

Get powerstrip and add it as a custom resolution.

> Searching retailers on the web brings up plenty of cards but no
> mention of resolutions save the odd silly maximum ratings of two
> thousand .... by fifteen hundred and .....

2048x1536 is what I run my desktop here on. Nice to have plenty of real
estate
when doing multipage doccos in word.

> I am running Win2k and have not played a game on this machine since
> getting it. It seems to be all VB, circuit design apps and Web. Very
> undemanding.



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