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I work in a Mac environment but bought a (used) PC for the sole purpose of checking to see how web sites look in IE7.

The computer is fine: Optiplex GX 150 Intel Pentium III; 930 MHz; 512 MB of RAM, running Windows XP Professional v.2002, Service Pack 3. It has an Intel 82815 Graphics Controller.

Bought a new 19" wide screen monitor ... and it looks terrible. Apparently a graphics card that will support 1440 x 900 resolution is needed.

The only program that will ever be run on this computer is IE7, but we need a decent display.

Can you help?

Thanks!

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any pci gpu should be fine. but why not just run parralles or whatever vmware program they have for mac? Anyway try this card.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814187041

It's a nvidia 8400 gs. so the drivers should still be available. Also it's a half hieght card so pc form factor shouldn't be a problem. Also being pci based it shouldn't draw enough power to stress out the PSU. Plus it's practically guaranteed to work in your PC.

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Yeah, practically any card.

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Running a Geforce4 MX 400 at 1920 X 1200

Make sure your Onboard video has its graphics drivers actually installed.

As said above, why not just run VM or bootcamp?

Message edited by nukemaster on 01-12-2009 at 04:13:12 AM

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Try updating the the Intel video drivers. Probably won't work since 1440 x 900 is a somewhat recent resolution.

Otherwise buy a cheap PCI or AGP (if it has an AGP slot). Example:

AGP-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814187044

PCI-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814145136

If you have any intel macs, make a seperate partition on one of your drives and install windows as a dual boot option on one of your drives using bootcamp. Most of the newer intel macs are coming with at least half decent graphics chips.

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Thanks to everyone who responded.The drivers on the PC are all up to date according to RadaraSync (http://www.radarsync.com). I used to have Windows installed on a Mac but I prefer the two-screen system and it was working great until I "upgraded" the monitor. So I'm looking for the least expensive video card that will support the 1440 x 900 resolution.

Reply to effess

confirm that the board does in fact have an AGP slot. It may also need a low profile card. This card should work.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Produ [...] 6814145067

Message edited by nukemaster on 01-13-2009 at 12:13:50 AM

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