which cheapo vid card?

[philmar]

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?

[KnSKranky]

Shouldn't be a problem running that card with a 1ghz proc.

[sswilson]

$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.

[Jmac]

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

[sswilson]

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.... :)

[Jmac]

Turbocache/Hypermemory is exclusive to PCI-E cards ... The card I linked to is AGP ...

[sswilson]

Originally Posted by Jmac

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.