Looking for a good video card for a Samsung 213T monitor

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:35 -0700, Jim Lowman wrote:
> I just ordered a Samsung 213T 21.3" monitor, and am
> looking for the appropriate video card to do it
> justice, within reason.  I am not a gamer, but put
> together a gamer's computer for speed.  I'm using an
> older video card based on the GeForce 5500, I think,
> for compatibility with Linux.  I have an ATI Radeon
> 9800 XT Pro, but I can't even get a text-based FC4
> install to work with this card in another computer;
> either that or it's the Audigy soundcard.  When I
> upgraded that computer, I broke the cardinal rule of
> upgrading one hardware component at a time.
> 

I am using the GeForce FX 5500 OC  with 256mb memory on that exact
monitor and have had no troubles with it. The only thing I had to do to
get the full 1600x1200 resolution working was _manually_ set the
vertrefresh to 60 hz. The automatic config sets the VertRefresh to 
56.0 - 75.0 range and that refuses to allow anything over 1280X1024
unless it is restricted to the 60.0 value. 

I am sure there are many other cards that work well, but this was
affordable for me and runs everything it do without a hitch..
 
> One reason that I don't want to go for a
> top-of-the-line card is that the motherboard supports
> AGP and not PCI express.
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome.
> 
> Jim
>