I have purchased an Acer w223x 22' monitor w/ 1680x1050 res. My on board VIDEO card will not play this resolution. The monitor works OK, but sometimes the picture is stretched, (movies, DVD's etc). A friend recommended an Invidia 6200 256m card. I have an old compaq w/ AMD 3200 512 sdram and PCI ports. Will this card work in my machine and will it give me the 1680x1050 resolution I am looking for?
Thank you
Tjbell61Just to make sure, what card do you have now?

Also, you said pictures are stretched. Do you mean everything is stretched, or just movies and games?I had this problem on my backup Lenovo - wanting to add the same monitor as yours - two in fact. Could not get wide screen res from on board card.

I checked AROUND newegg and techforless and LOOKED at card specs - some will list their res options .... and settled on an ATI which gave me two outputs and the res. I can't RECALL card number right now but - it does seem that many newer cards will mostly achieve this res - wide screen LCD mons are becoming much more the norm.

My main machine has a Nvidia Quadro FX1700 - quite an up market card but I expect there will be other Nvidias that'll do. Try a search on this card you mention and see if you can chase up specs on it. Make sure too whether you have PCI or PCIe slots.Basically everything is stretched. Occasionaaly some video online appears "normal", but this does not happen often.My on board VIDEO is VIA/S3GThat S3 will probably only offer the basics, beyond the straight VGA 640x480 .... 800x600, 1024x768 and maybe 1600x1200 if really lucky but probably at reduced colors OPTION. These all 4:3 ratio.Which ever card your're buying, make sure it's 16/24 or 32-bits video card, that's compartible with your motherboard. Ovie aka TrizleQuote from: Trizle1 on January 01, 2009, 06:01:25 PM

Which ever card your're buying, make sure it's 16/24 or 32-bits video card, that's compartible with your motherboard. Ovie aka Trizle

He's a wealth of knowledge.....no ? ?