Graphics Card for Dell 24in

[steveusk]

I want to buy a Dell 24in Monitor (2405FPW) and I believe I will need a new graphics card.

My PC is running Windows 2000 on a pentium 4 chip 2.40Mhz 512mbg ram with a Platinix 2E V2.0 motherboard

The video slot is AGP 4x

I think I want to run from a DVI output at the monitor's native res. of 19200 x 12000

I use my computer for 2d graphic design (mostly for print, not web).

So I don't need a gprahics card that will have a blistering 3d or gaming perfomance but I would like to be able to split my screen and display two docs (which I believe is a feature of the Dell Monitor.

Any help welcome please.

Thanks

[arthurleung]

Any AGP/PCIe card can push 1920x1200 for 2D.

You could try using the nview which you can set a virtual split line. But nview is very unstable IMO.

Manually, you could use ctrl to select the 2 windows, then right click tile vertically

[steveusk]

I understood that not all cards support 1920 x 1200 using DVI output - only VGA.

Is that not correct.

Thanks, SteveUsk

[arthurleung]

I understood that not all cards support 1920 x 1200 using DVI output - only VGA.

Is that not correct.

Thanks, SteveUsk

They should, but at reduced refresh rate (since DVI single-link is rated at 1600x1200 @ 60Mhz only), and VGA looks horribly crap at anything >1600x1200
I've ran Dual 1600x1200 (DVI+Dsub) on my Radeon 7000 PCI card, don't think there will be any problem running 1920x1200 since the data rate will be the same.

[ExceededGoku]

tbh I think you should go for the 2005FPW, its alot more suited to your computer specs. My graphics card struggles on some recent games at maximum resolution, and I'm using the 2005FPW.

[steveusk]

Thanks for your advice - but the reviews I have read reckon that the 20 in Dell monitor is not nearly as good as the 24in - and really I want the extra size.

[sawyen]

depedns wat ur going to use if for really...

gaming on 1920x1200 on a ultra bottlenecked P4 2.4 is pretty bad regardless of graphics card available on AGP now. Unless you're purely using it in Windows, scaling off the native resolution on an LCD is one of the ugliest things... blurry, headache, intermittent vormitting.. u name it.. I'm just kidding, but yea... it does look pretty crap..

[Ady168uk]

Steve get the 2405pfw, and grab yourself a ati 9200 for like £20, I got one connected to my 2405fpw vga and works fine, be more than enough for kinda uses you got in mind.

also with the 24" you dont have to worry about backlight problems, I had a 20" before upgrading and man it was worth it currently got ps2, 2xshuttles and dvd player plugged up to this monster