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Shield
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07-07-2012 5:55 PM 		Reply to: Message 1 by Jon
07-07-2012 4:03 PM

VIA/S3G UniChrome IGP dosent support widescreen. Get another graphics card.
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07-08-2012 12:00 AM 		Reply to: Message 5 by Jon
07-07-2012 6:16 PM

No... not the bad news! Anything but the bad news...
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Then again, maybe when I get myself some money.
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I'd be surprised if you have to spend more than 10-20$ for a used card (Theres no reason buying new hardware for an old machine like yours), with support for higher resolutions incl. widescreen, matching or surpassing your current card in performance.
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Thanks for the help.
No problem! I LOVE delivering bad news.
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Edited by rbp, : No reason given.
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07-08-2012 1:32 AM 		Reply to: Message 7 by Jon
07-08-2012 1:12 AM

Any card from that era or a year or two forwards will work.
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Your motherboard has a few PCI slots, atleast 1 or 2 unoccupied, and a single, probably currently unoccupied AGP slot.
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I assume you are using Windows XP? If you are, you will probably have to download the drivers manually before everything looks nice.
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If you are using Win Vista and onwards, they have generic drivers that will do just fine.
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If you are using Linux, you will learn to loath and love xorg.conf
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