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Old August 14th, 2006, 05:45 AM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Graphics card for widescreen display

Would appreciate some advice from all you techies out there. I have a fairly old P4 1.7GHz system for which I have just bought a Philips 200W widescreen monitor. The resolution of this screen is 1680 x 1050 pixels, but I can't make my old on-board graphics run anything other than 1280 x 1024 or 1600 x 1200. Both of these run happily but, of course, the display is distorted (squashed).

I do mainly software development and I'm not interested in games (sorry guys!) so high speed is not a major issue. I have no AGP port on the motherboard, just PCI slots. So, I need a PCI card with a DVI output (which the monitor has) with reasonable performance but - most important - one that will let me set resolution to 1680 x 1050 px. I've tried using the supplied Philips drivers and downloaded the latest from SiS (who do the on-board graphics) but neither makes any difference. Why is this, when the graphics will happily run at 1600 x 1200?
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