PCI and high res?

[codeseven]

This is ugly, but, I have two PC's and one monitor. The monitor is a Dell 2005FPW , one PC I built for gaming and it rocks, the other PC was given to me, I use it for everyday stuff. Heres the ugly part, it's an e-machines T1840 with onboard graphics and NO AGP/PCI-E slots only PCI . The problem is when I use the crappier PC it's onboard graphics cant scale to the widescreen 1680x1050 native res of the Dell so everything looks stretched

Well, I would like to get a crappy (though PCI is cheap ) PCI card just good enough to allow for 1680x1050 viewing, no gaming, just everyday stuff. Any suggestion on what the minimum card specs I'll need? Thanks

[Kevin007]

why not get a radeon 9100? I have one and it runs 1600by1200 on the desktop fine.

[noxqzs]

You could figure out whether or not your card could physically support any resolution in question.

Minimum video memory = HorizontalRefresh x VerticalRefresh x ColorDepth.


for example.

MVM = 1680 x 1050 x 32

= 56448000 bits /8

= 7,056,000 B

= 7.1MB VRAM

[Scott9027]

Interesting.

If that's true, I never knew you could figure it out like that.

Good job.

[tom10167]

Any card that can do your resolution can do the 2d just fine.