Re: New Monitor – What Card?
You could try looking for a ATI X500 pci card on ebay or similar. Also the 9250, matrox g550 or an old nvidia quadro card. They should be able to do it. No guarantees though.
Re: New Monitor – What Card?
Hmm, here's one new option: NVIDIA FX5200 PCI
Or check on ebay for PCI graphics cards: search linky however remember that you'll need a card that supports your PCI slots (I think for 5v that means it has to be keyed at the back of the connector, but you can check easily by taking the side off your PC case and looking at the slots :D)
Re: New Monitor – What Card?
You can get a Geforce 6200 for £32 from Scan
Oops, my mistake. Saw AGP in your post and thought you wanted an AGP card.
Re: New Monitor – What Card?
Thank you everyone for taking time to give advice. I will research the suggestions and post the outcome in due course, maybe some while! Re the PCI slot, yes the +5V is the one with the alignment slot furtherest away, thank you for flagging that up, I hadn't really grasped the significance.
Re: New Monitor – What Card?
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... the +5V is the one with the alignment slot furtherest away, thank you for flagging that up, I hadn't really grasped the significance.
No worries. A lot of PCI cards are keyed for both (the FX5200 I linked to, for example ;) ), but it'd be pretty disastrous to spend money on a card only for it not to fit!
Re: New Monitor – What Card?
To round this off, after failing to win a few 9250's on ebay, I bought a Matrix Millenium II as the ad said it supported widescreen. However I could not get it to show anything above 1:33 and even tried Powerstrip, which I had read about. No joy there so got rid of that card and now have a new ATI Radeon 9250 256 MB card off ebay from Hong Kong, £26 delivered and no more expensive than some of the bids I saw, and that has given me a resolution of 1280x768 in a wide screen format. Thanks to all for your advice. I would still quite like to use the full 1600x900 available on my monitor, is there any way to achieve that?