Help Me pls with this wide screen lcd monitor

Hi,
I am quite new in this monitor things. I am planning to buy a new lcd monitor, my system using ati radeon 9000. I like the 19" wide screen lcd one but I heard that if my system doesn't support the 1440 X 900 resolution the picture will be ugly? is that true? if yes, then how to overcome this problem?
And if I apply 1280x1024 resolution to this wide screen, does it looks weird?
Please someone help me here... I am really interested in buying one of those...


Thx

Native Res will look best no matter what Display/GPU you use. Your Radeon 9000 supports a resolution of 2048x1536, show yes the 1440x900 res will be supported. This doesn't matter now, but the 1440 res is a wide screen resolution. The 1280x1024 is a regular screen and would look terrible on the widescreen monitor. If you have problems with the res you can upgrade the card. But judging by the card you are using your computer is old and it would be easier to just buy a new computer.

hi.
if your card doesn't support wide screen reolution,then
you can let the monitor do the scaling,
but think there would not ber a problem showing your right resolution.
i have a widescreen monitor,and i use ati 9200 series,it supports that resolution1440x900.

If your video card does not list 1440x900 as one of the resolutions it supports, there is a *possibility* you can set the resolutions manually through the driver. If not, just get a new card. They are cheap and you are due for a newer one anyway if you want to run widescreens.