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Easy quicky: I wanna buy my parents a new monitor...

BlochWaveBlochWave Registered User regular
edited December 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
to replace the old 16 inch CRT, they have a Radeon 9600 Pro I believe, will that be able to support, say, a 19 or 20 inch wide screen?

I googled to see what types of resolutions are supported by it and it looks ok but I couldn't find like a conclusive list of resolutions it supports and I'm not even sure they work like that(like if the monitor includes drivers that would give it the resolution or whatever, I dunno)

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  • Iceman.USAFIceman.USAF Major East CoastRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Should be fine.

    I just traded my 9600 XT in for a Geforce 8800gt (wow, eh?). I've been using it with a 17" for a while, with no problem. It did some crazy large resolutions...

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  • GdiguyGdiguy San Diego, CARegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    BlochWave wrote: »
    to replace the old 16 inch CRT, they have a Radeon 9600 Pro I believe, will that be able to support, say, a 19 or 20 inch wide screen?

    I googled to see what types of resolutions are supported by it and it looks ok but I couldn't find like a conclusive list of resolutions it supports and I'm not even sure they work like that(like if the monitor includes drivers that would give it the resolution or whatever, I dunno)

    it's a little later, but my 9800 pro can do a 21 inch widescreen resolution without a problem...

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  • EggyToastEggyToast Jersey CityRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    For regular computer stuff, they shouldn't have any problems. People had 21 and 23" CRTs in the 90s.

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Assuming they don't play many games on the computer, or at least ones that take a good bit of video card power, it should be fine. It doesn't take much strain to run most software at decent resolutions(obviously with exceptions).

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  • mooshoeporkmooshoepork Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    my 9800 pro can do 22" np too.

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  • RaslinRaslin Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Yeah, you guys have to realize there is(or at least was) a pretty big difference between the 9600 and 9800. My dad's 9800pro machine ran BF2 on high settings with little slowdown, and medium with none...

    Still, I think you should be fine. If it didn't work, I think you could probably get a pretty cheap card(Like, one of the cheapest X2XXX's) and it would work fine. But you probably wont need to even do that.

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  • corcorigancorcorigan Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    I'm fairly sure my Voodoo3 could support things over 1900x1600. No issues there.

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