Which GFX card for my Widescreen LCD?

Hi People.

I bought myself the Viewsonic VX2025wm 20.1" Widescreen LCD monitor.

The problem is, I have a Geforce FX5600 AGP displaying the monitor.
This allows me only to display 1280 X 1024 pixels, which makes my images stretch and the letters blur on the screen.
I need a graphics card that can display upto 1680 X 1050 pixels.

I use my PC mostly for Video editing, web surfing and Gaming.

(How about the Geforce 7800GS AGP)

1. Which 8 X AGP graphics card would be able to handle this LCD Monitor?

Thanks in Advance,

Madhawk...

I bought the AGP XFX Geforce 7800GS Nvidia graphics card.

I installed the card and the latest drivers.

It's working 100%.

Regards.

Madhawk.

i don't know if it is true but i have a funny feeling for the same money you could have got a new mobo with pci-e and a pci-egfx card which is better then the 7800. might be wrong but hey as long as you happy.

oh and tryust me you won't regret getting a widescreen.

I am happy with the LCD widescreen. The text is sharp and the colours are great. The only thing is that the black isn't as dark/defined as a CRT monitor. You have to sit right in front of the screen to have the best results. Also no dead pixels, which I was a bit concerned about.
I had to use the "Colour Correction" in the Nvidia control panel, to get the settings just the way I like it.

If I had to get a PCI-E card, I would have to replace my motherboard (478 Socket), 2GB DDR400 Ram and my 3GHz Intel (Northwood) processor. That would cost me much more then just buying the 7800GS.

I haven't played any games yet, so I don't know how this LCD performs with games.

Regards.

Madhawk.

P.S. At least I didn't have a conversation by myself this time.

it's not that high... 1600x1200 still pushes more pixels man. and that card should do just fine at that res in all current games.

ya, new games are hard to come by right now. Not too many really good ones. (subjective I know) Lately I have just been on GRAW, bf2, w40kOW, and hl2:ep1... and half of those are "old".

I was just curious about support, and b/c I have not taken that wide plunge (yet) I did not know about that forum... thanks.

I have just been dragging my feet towards lcd as I still see ghosting on many of the current lcd's and it annoys my. (the black issue mentioned above is also annoying) But my desktop space if finally becoming more important than those, and many new lcd's are very true on the black and nicer for ghosting so...

does that Dell support the option of not stretching (and interpolating) to the screen size on lower res? I forget what it is called but I have seen it on a few samsung and other monitors...

ya, see if whatever widescreen I got had that option then I would not worry so much as it would just have "black bars" on the sides and still be crystal. That is what I like.

I am thinking either the dell or one of the viewsonic wide ones... still just thinking and not sure when I will get tired enough of the trinitron I have.