Will Widescreen TFT Monitor Work On Seven Year Old PC?
It very well may not support the native resolution of the monitor, which would be disappointing. It will work, but running an LCD monitor at other than native needs to interpolate the data and won’t be nearly as sharp as it should be. You can check out the specs for your graphics card, at least insure you do have the latest drivers which increases the chance that it will. However, unless you are a gamer needing the hottest video card (and I have to think you are not, what with a 7 year old computer), you can pick up a new card that will support it pretty cheaply. One word of caution, before you unplug the old CRT, set your refresh rate (frequency) to 60 Hz; most LCD panels won’t support over 60 or 72, and will come up blank in Windows if you are set to, say, 85 for the CRT. Don’t fret about 60 Hz, LCDs don’t flicker at that frequency like CRTs.
