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Widescreen video card for S3010CL
My wife uses a Compaq S3010CL (Sam's Club model from 2004) for
her business work. She is interested in a 22" widescreen LCD monitor. The native resolution on these is 1680x1050. The onboard video is VIA-S3 which does not appear to support 1680x1050. I would like to know if anyone is aware of a video card that can be installed in this PC which can support that 1680x1050 resolution. The available slots are a PCI and an AGP4x 1.5v. This is a business machine for her newspaper. Gaming is occasional Solitaire. It does not have a DVD unit, and she has no interest in watching movies on it. Her application software is 2D. She wants the larger monitor to make it easy to work on wide spreadsheets, and give her larger graphic images to work with in her layout software (Corel Draw 9 Suite - Don't laugh, it gets the job done very well) It appears that a Radeon 9550 would provide the desired resolution, but would have issues. It is reported to run hot, which also means it uses a fair amount of power. The supply is only 200 watts. Is there a simple video card out there which can provide the resolution, but won't cause a big thermal and power load to provide gaming performance she has no need for. Before we would upgrade the power supply, fans etc., we would get a new PC -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg |
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Widescreen video card for S3010CL
This card should do the trick for $35.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161056 HH "Ken Wampach" wrote in message . .. My wife uses a Compaq S3010CL (Sam's Club model from 2004) for her business work. She is interested in a 22" widescreen LCD monitor. The native resolution on these is 1680x1050. The onboard video is VIA-S3 which does not appear to support 1680x1050. I would like to know if anyone is aware of a video card that can be installed in this PC which can support that 1680x1050 resolution. The available slots are a PCI and an AGP4x 1.5v. This is a business machine for her newspaper. Gaming is occasional Solitaire. It does not have a DVD unit, and she has no interest in watching movies on it. Her application software is 2D. She wants the larger monitor to make it easy to work on wide spreadsheets, and give her larger graphic images to work with in her layout software (Corel Draw 9 Suite - Don't laugh, it gets the job done very well) It appears that a Radeon 9550 would provide the desired resolution, but would have issues. It is reported to run hot, which also means it uses a fair amount of power. The supply is only 200 watts. Is there a simple video card out there which can provide the resolution, but won't cause a big thermal and power load to provide gaming performance she has no need for. Before we would upgrade the power supply, fans etc., we would get a new PC -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg |
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Widescreen video card for S3010CL
Thanks for the info. Sure looks it should be OK.
Do you happen to have any personal experience with it? -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg "HH" wrote in message ... This card should do the trick for $35. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161056 HH "Ken Wampach" wrote in message . .. My wife uses a Compaq S3010CL (Sam's Club model from 2004) for her business work. She is interested in a 22" widescreen LCD monitor. The native resolution on these is 1680x1050. The onboard video is VIA-S3 which does not appear to support 1680x1050. I would like to know if anyone is aware of a video card that can be installed in this PC which can support that 1680x1050 resolution. The available slots are a PCI and an AGP4x 1.5v. This is a business machine for her newspaper. Gaming is occasional Solitaire. It does not have a DVD unit, and she has no interest in watching movies on it. Her application software is 2D. She wants the larger monitor to make it easy to work on wide spreadsheets, and give her larger graphic images to work with in her layout software (Corel Draw 9 Suite - Don't laugh, it gets the job done very well) It appears that a Radeon 9550 would provide the desired resolution, but would have issues. It is reported to run hot, which also means it uses a fair amount of power. The supply is only 200 watts. Is there a simple video card out there which can provide the resolution, but won't cause a big thermal and power load to provide gaming performance she has no need for. Before we would upgrade the power supply, fans etc., we would get a new PC -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg |
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Widescreen video card for S3010CL
Ken,
With that specific card, no. But, generally speaking, I've found Radeon cards less problematic on Compaq PCs than GeForce cards, primarily because the better GeForce cards often require larger PC power supplies than do Radeon cards. When I was an online tech at Compaq, we recommeded Radeons 75% of the time as upgrades. HH "Ken Wampach" wrote in message . .. Thanks for the info. Sure looks it should be OK. Do you happen to have any personal experience with it? -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg "HH" wrote in message ... This card should do the trick for $35. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161056 HH "Ken Wampach" wrote in message . .. My wife uses a Compaq S3010CL (Sam's Club model from 2004) for her business work. She is interested in a 22" widescreen LCD monitor. The native resolution on these is 1680x1050. The onboard video is VIA-S3 which does not appear to support 1680x1050. I would like to know if anyone is aware of a video card that can be installed in this PC which can support that 1680x1050 resolution. The available slots are a PCI and an AGP4x 1.5v. This is a business machine for her newspaper. Gaming is occasional Solitaire. It does not have a DVD unit, and she has no interest in watching movies on it. Her application software is 2D. She wants the larger monitor to make it easy to work on wide spreadsheets, and give her larger graphic images to work with in her layout software (Corel Draw 9 Suite - Don't laugh, it gets the job done very well) It appears that a Radeon 9550 would provide the desired resolution, but would have issues. It is reported to run hot, which also means it uses a fair amount of power. The supply is only 200 watts. Is there a simple video card out there which can provide the resolution, but won't cause a big thermal and power load to provide gaming performance she has no need for. Before we would upgrade the power supply, fans etc., we would get a new PC -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg |
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Widescreen video card for S3010CL
I should have pointed out that the reason I was curious was my
concerns about heat and power supply load. Your general Radeon experience it reassuring. Thanks again for the help you have provided me and the significant contributions you make to this group on a regular basis. -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg "HH" wrote in message ... Ken, With that specific card, no. But, generally speaking, I've found Radeon cards less problematic on Compaq PCs than GeForce cards, primarily because the better GeForce cards often require larger PC power supplies than do Radeon cards. When I was an online tech at Compaq, we recommeded Radeons 75% of the time as upgrades. HH "Ken Wampach" wrote in message . .. Thanks for the info. Sure looks it should be OK. Do you happen to have any personal experience with it? -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg "HH" wrote in message ... This card should do the trick for $35. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814161056 HH "Ken Wampach" wrote in message . .. My wife uses a Compaq S3010CL (Sam's Club model from 2004) for her business work. She is interested in a 22" widescreen LCD monitor. The native resolution on these is 1680x1050. The onboard video is VIA-S3 which does not appear to support 1680x1050. I would like to know if anyone is aware of a video card that can be installed in this PC which can support that 1680x1050 resolution. The available slots are a PCI and an AGP4x 1.5v. This is a business machine for her newspaper. Gaming is occasional Solitaire. It does not have a DVD unit, and she has no interest in watching movies on it. Her application software is 2D. She wants the larger monitor to make it easy to work on wide spreadsheets, and give her larger graphic images to work with in her layout software (Corel Draw 9 Suite - Don't laugh, it gets the job done very well) It appears that a Radeon 9550 would provide the desired resolution, but would have issues. It is reported to run hot, which also means it uses a fair amount of power. The supply is only 200 watts. Is there a simple video card out there which can provide the resolution, but won't cause a big thermal and power load to provide gaming performance she has no need for. Before we would upgrade the power supply, fans etc., we would get a new PC -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg |
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Widescreen video card for S3010CL
You say the card doesn't appear to be able to handle that
resolution...is that becuase you cannot set it as such from the display properties window? If that is why, your card can probably handle that resolution, it just doesn't say so becuase the current monitor cannot. I hope that helps... Stevo |
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Widescreen video card for S3010CL
"Stevo" wrote in message ... You say the card doesn't appear to be able to handle that resolution...is that becuase you cannot set it as such from the display properties window? If that is why, your card can probably handle that resolution, it just doesn't say so becuase the current monitor cannot. I hope that helps... Stevo The S3010CL motherboard has the S3 Prosavage DDR chip on it. The Drivers in this PC are version 6.14.10.25 dated 3/2/2004 When I go to: Display Properties Settings Advanced Adapter List All Modes I can view a long list of Graphic settings. This list includes 1600x1200 32bit 60 Hz, which would lead me to suspect that the underlying hardware would be fast enough to handle 1680x1050, but that resolution was not available in the list. When I contacted Compaq support via online chat, the person was not able to offer any way to configure the onboard adapter to work at 1680x1050. Are you aware of a way to get this adapter to provide 1680x1050 resolution or was your reply speculation that this adapter might have 1680x1050 capability? -- Ken Wampach - FirstNameATLastNameDOTorg |
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