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Hi there, I read the sticky thread but I am wondering if someone could share their first hand experience.. I need a monitor/tv to connect to my laptop and use a dual screen setup. My laptop has a 15.6" fhd ips screen that is perfect. It is just too small. I want to split my new screen on 3 parts and use a laptop as well.. Word, Excel and web sites. That is where most of my work is. A lot of writing, web editing and data work. I want something that will have sharp text on the screen, accurate colors, not to get headache from it and to have a nice picture quality. I don't have a lot of money unfortunately.. 300$ tops. So I am breaking between getting a 4k tv and an Ultrawide montior. 43" Tv seems like a better idea but the question is would the text look good on it. I want it to look as good as my laptop screen. What do you think? What are your experiences?

Well it worked for more than a decade! That is still very impressive

But that built in driver needs a gpu? As in if the gpu is not detected at all then it will not have output or that windows driver can work regardless of the gpu being present or not? This is just a worst case scenario question sorry if I am being persistant Whoa and I thought I had an old card that is still working! Thanks for the additional reassurance

I thought as much but what if the windows doesnt install some sort of a video driver to begin with? I think that in that case there could be no video output And since its an old card I dont know if windows will be able to use it with some sort of a default driver

Hi Saksham and thank you for replying me I am also worried about the driver compability and maybe it sounds stupid to ask but what about CPU compability? I assume ryzen cpu would not have a problem with the old graphics

Budget (including currency): 1000$ Country: Serbia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Gaming (gta v, rdr2, and other good games and future titles too) not whole lot of gaming but I want it to be able to play at 1080p mostly max settings scaled on my 4k tv which is the monitor as well. Otherwise it will be used for photo editing and casual multimedia as home pc Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): I have to salvage my ancient PC that exploded a few years ago and use its 1TB HDD and an Nvidia GTX 550Ti. HDD and graphics are fine because I believe the PSU exploded. The reason why I have to salvage the graphics is because in my country there is no option to buy anything of actual value at the moment. I was gonna go with the AMD Radeon RX 5700 but it is out of stock everywhere while GTX 2060 Super is also SUPER overpriced at the moment. Basically everything is overpriced beyond any reason in my country. The RX 5700XT costs around 400$ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W95D5V3/ref=dp_cerb_2 but in my country it is more like 700$ at the moment. Same goes with every part. Since I cant pay for that atm I want to use my ancient GTX 550Ti from nVidia and update later and I want to know if that is possible. Other components that I will buy are: (with links to manufacturer sites) Motherboard: Asus PRIME B550M-A https://www.asus.com/Motherboards/PRIME-B550M-A/specifications/ PSU: NJOY Woden 650 PWPS-065A04W-BU01B https://www.njoy.ro/PSU/woden-650 RAM: Kingston HX434C16FB3/16 HyperX Fury Black << not sure about ram yet, but I think any DDR4 of 16gb will do with a frequency supported by mobo and cpu SSD: ADATA ASX6000LNP-512GT-C SSD 512GB M.2 https://www.amazon.com/XPG-SX6000-Gen3x4-1200MB-ASX6000LNP-512GT-C/dp/B07N23BSZM not a manufacturer site but I cant find it CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-5-3600 GPU: In future either something good from nVidia but I would rather get AMD Radeon RX 5700 or an 5700XT version. For now the old nVidia GTX 550Ti https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-gtx-550-ti.c274 I am not inexperienced when it comes to PCs. But I am not that good either. I am worried that I will buy all of the parts without the GPU and that the old GPU will not work with the system... In that case I am screwed. Also that budget I wrote above is when taking the price of RX 5700 in the account in the future but you dont really have to bother and search anything. Forget the price. In my country prices are very different and all are overpriced. However the 1000$ mark is good. I calculated it all and once the RX 5700 is cheaper again it will fit the budget What are your thoughts? What do you think would this work? Thank you in advance..