Video cards

[Joel Hammer]

I just bought a $300 computer from Walmart. My son gave
me an Nvidia 8xxx model card. I  had to buy a new power
supply ($100) to run the  card in my PCI express slot. But,
it drives my new 24 inch monitor fine at 1900 x 1200. It
really looks great.

I am using Vista on this box. After two weeks I hate it
already. Things just aren't working right. (Printer drivers
for my Brother laserprinter and video from some web sites
[BBC]).

A nice surprise, too. The bios detected my new video card,
and automatically switched over from the onboard video
to the new video card without my having to go into the
BIOS setup.

Joel

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 12:37:43PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Lonni J Friedman <netllama at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 4:38 AM, David A. Bandel <david.bandel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >  > Folks,
> >  >
> >  >  I recently got a new monitor -- decided on a widescreen.  But the
> >  >  motherboards video chip just won't support this properly (I have
> >  >  video, but it's a bit distorted).
> >  >
> >  >  Anyway, I went to the local computer shop to look for video cards
> >  >  (nVidia to be exact).  They have a 7xxx model and an 8xxx model --
> >  >  both PCI-X (with a significant price difference between the two).
> >
> >  Hopefully you mean PCI-E (PCI-Express) and not PCI-X which is just a
> >  64bit PCI bus.
> 
> PCI-Express.  Anyway, do the 7xxx or 8xxx models support 1440x900?
> 
> 
> Ciao,
> 
> David A. Bandel
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