need PCI card for 1680x1050 resolution

what are you planning on doing with it ? Also you may want to list your system specs, motherboard processor current video card RAM PSU etc etc

You can buy any graphic card

You can buy a x1600 ati card on Newegg.com

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814153030

Or any other you may fancy , but i think this is a very good card for a non-gamer , who may play an occasional game in the future

Plus it has got good software ATI rocks . I own a 8800 but thats a different story altogether

You still haven't said what you intend to use it for.

If you want to play 3d games at that resolution, good luck. I doubt any PCI card caould do it, the interface is too limited.

If you just want to use windows, surf the web, etc... get any new PCI card. You can get Radeon X1300s and Geforce 6200's for PCI, I believe.

Here's a Radeon 9250 for $40-ish that'll do the windows desktop thing well enough. DirectX 8 card though, I don't know if it'd work with the Vista aero interface:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814102696


Here's an X1300 for $114. It might game a bit even, but you'd surely have to lower the resolution to 1024x768 or 800x600 for gaming.
But it'll work with Vista, and it'll do a 1680x1050 desktop no problem:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814129062


Here';s a geforce 6200 PCI, also compatible with Windows Aero interface and good for low resolution gaming/high resaolution desktop:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814139010

The 5200 will do a decent job of moviewatching and desktop stuff.

I'm not sure I see the problem here...the integrated graphics in your Dell should be able to support that resolution.

http://www.intel.com/products/chipsets/eg2/index.htm

Yeah, it's kinda weird you're having the problem, unless Intel's site is wrong about the specs of the 865G.

Anyway, the FX5200 will be more than enough to get you to your desired resolution.

nice. hey thanks for all your help!!! i will try the fx5200.

i'll post if it works.

turns out i have the latest driver installed as you posted so that didnt work.

in the evening going to pick up the fx5200 - will post update then.

yes, but that is not the correct answer to this problem. Even 32MB of video ram is more than enough to run 1680x1050, as shown with a Radeon 7000. The 865g can use up to 96MB of ram, although 64MB would more likely be the max. If you were to calculate the actual amount of videomemory needed to run a resolution of 1680x1050x32bit, you get only 6.8MB of vram needed, which is only ~13.5MB needed for double buffering; well within the capability of even a 16MB PCI Rage 128, as long as there is a driver that supports the resolution of 1680x1050 (or as long as you don't mind using the Powerstrip utility to set your own custom resolution). The answer to the problem here is that the driver for the i865G does not designate 1680x1050 as a supported resolution. It's as simple as that. There are folks in the Linux community that have made a utility to modify the video BIOS of the 865G to get around this problem, and have been able to successfully run their moniters at native 1680x1050 using the 865G chipset.

Hey dnizmo99, I have 22" SyncMaster 220wm Widescreen w/ 1680x1050 res but my SONY PCV-RX860 P4 w/ Display Adapter "Sis 650_651_740" can only support 1600x1200 res. What is the manufacture and exact brand of fx5200 256mb card that you bourght? There are so many fx5200 cards on page http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] &name=PCI. Just don't know which one I should buy. Thanks!