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Old March 30, 2007, 07:47 AM
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I bought a Dell 2007WFP for my digital darkroom computer to see how it stacks up against my NEC 20WMGX2. I think I'll keep the NEC for my digital darkroom. But I tried hooking the Dell up to my internet dedicated PC which has an ancient nVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64 vid card.
The highest screen resolution possible seems to be 1600 x 1024

But the Dell requires 1680 x 1050. The monitor manual talks about the nVidia website having drivers to download to help the graphics card achieve this resolution. I didn't see any....I like this monitor - plus I don't want to hook up the 17 inch CRT - it's heavy and taking up too much desk real estate.
Anyone know what I can do to get the proper resolution outside of buying a new graphics card? I have an old aOpen AX3SP Pro with Pentuim !!! 1 GHz and 256 GB RAM but it is lightning fast for a 6 year old system.

If not, then can you suggest a cheapo vid card (~ $50) that I can use on this mobo?
Is this thing what I want?

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...nufacture=eVGA

Would it run with a Pentium !!! 1.0 GHz CPU, aOpen AX3SP Pro mobo and 512 gb RAM?
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Old May 19, 2007, 09:00 AM
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Shouldn't be a problem running that card with a 1ghz proc.
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Old May 19, 2007, 09:36 AM
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$48 or an open box for $41....... :)

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...nufacture=ASUS

If it's not for gaming, I've always prefered the picture quality of ATI cards.

Max res of 2048X1536 & it's 128 meg vrs 64.
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One of my clients was in a similar situation so I advised her to pick up an Asus GeForce 6200. Worked perfectly.

ASUS GeForce 6200 AGP 128MB DDR DVI VGA TV Out Video Card - DirectCanada
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The problems with the 6200s is that a person who's not paying attention can very easily end up with one of the "turbo cache" ones.... might as well run on-board as far as I'm concerned.... :)
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Turbocache/Hypermemory is exclusive to PCI-E cards ... The card I linked to is AGP ...
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Turbocache/Hypermemory is exclusive to PCI-E cards ... The card I linked to is AGP ...
Thanks for the info... I didn't realise it was only on PCIe.
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