Hope someone can be of assistance here (apologies in advance for the stupid questions)
Ok I've just bought a 22" widescreen monitor and discovered my onboard graphics don't support widescreen resolutions (ie: 1680x1050). Also, I am getting a second, smaller monitor to set up dual monitors
I have one AGP and one PCI slot available (not PCI Express), very little cash, and lots of questions!
1. Which is better (AGP or PCI) and why? I presumed AGP due to the speed and the fact that it's dedicated to graphics, but after googling AGP VS PCI, I found loads of people slating AGP saying they're really unstable, likely to crash your system, etc
2. Are most modern cards likely to support widescreen resolutions?
3.1 Will it be easy to run 2 monitors off one card with 2 sockets (ie: 1 x VGA and 1 x DVI)?
3.2 And if so is this going to be another factor that determines whether I go for AGP or PCI?
3.3 If the answer to 3.1 is "Yes", will I be ok to plug 2 VGA monitors into it via use of the "DVI-VGA adaptor"?
4. How does the installation process go? I plug the card in, plug the monitor into it and switch on? Will it be natively recognised or will drivers be needed? And if drivers
are needed do you have to add the card first? And if so does the monitor still activate and allow you to see what's going on
to install the drivers?