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hogan
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_ 		26. May 2005 @ 20:26 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
My old CRT is on its last legs, I've had for about 7 years. I want to get a LCD to replace it, because of my small desk space. Is there a minimum requirements from a video card. I have a NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440-SE card (64 megs of ram I think). I'm not much of a gamer, just general use computing. Is this card OK. I'm looking at a NEC aslcd51v-bk black 15" lcd at newegg.
Any advice on a monitor and requirements would be helpful. Thanks in advance. Hogan

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ddp
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_ 		27. May 2005 @ 09:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
as long as monitor has the standard vga 15 pin connector you should be alright with lcd
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Xian
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_ 		27. May 2005 @ 10:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
A LCD monitor operates best in it's native resolution. It can display other resolutions but has to stretch them and scale to fit. That means the graphics might look a little stretched or squashed and text might not be as clear if you try to run anything but the native resolution. Probably that would be 1024x768 for a 15". That would be the only requirement other than the physical cabling requirements that ddp already mentioned.

The problem I have seen switching to an LCD mostly affects gamers with an old video card. They run Doom 3 or another high requirement game at 800x600 ok, but when they switch to a 19" LCD monitor with a 1600x1280 or even 1280x1024 native resolution the older card isn't powerful enough to display that resolution at an acceptable frame rate.
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hogan
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_ 		27. May 2005 @ 19:31 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks for the advice. Like I said, I don't play any games so I shouldn't have any problems. Native res is 1024x768.



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