I am well more versed in older and or higher end cards and am having a hard time knowing what to look for.
I built a new PC for one of the office PC that is using an LG Ultrawide 29" IPS LED Monitor at a resolution of 2560 x 1080.
The CPU selected for the build is a 12600KF due to a really nice open box price. I thought I was going to get away with using an older R7 240 (or similar) GPU for it, but it simply doesn't have the grunt to run the native resolution without letterboxing it. I am a bit confused as the card should be on roughly the same level of power/ability as the i5 8400 integrated graphics but that has not been the case.
I am far more well versed in older low end cards, and newer gaming type cards. I am considering something like the RX 6600 Challenger card but know it is well overkill for this use case. The monitor is Freesync and had considered continuing to use an AMD GPU alongside that, hooked up to the monitor via HDMI (the monitor also offers a DP connection). I have a limit of a 500W PSU, which is far more than needed when considering that I really don't need as strong a card as selected above.
What should I be looking at? From my "gaming" perspective I recall the 6400 being a card to avoid for a variety of reasons. I really don't know if those shortcomings matter for a static screen office use case.
The card I am looking at above is:
white, has a backplate, will work with the existing new PSU
I wouldn't have an issue using a smaller black card such as a half height (with full size I/O plate) as it will hide under the cooler anyway. In that case no supplemental power would be preferred. I just don't know what to look at so far as possible models. Closer to about half the $210 the above card is listed at wouldn't be bad if it will run the proper resolution and not letterbox.
I built a new PC for one of the office PC that is using an LG Ultrawide 29" IPS LED Monitor at a resolution of 2560 x 1080.
The CPU selected for the build is a 12600KF due to a really nice open box price. I thought I was going to get away with using an older R7 240 (or similar) GPU for it, but it simply doesn't have the grunt to run the native resolution without letterboxing it. I am a bit confused as the card should be on roughly the same level of power/ability as the i5 8400 integrated graphics but that has not been the case.
I am far more well versed in older low end cards, and newer gaming type cards. I am considering something like the RX 6600 Challenger card but know it is well overkill for this use case. The monitor is Freesync and had considered continuing to use an AMD GPU alongside that, hooked up to the monitor via HDMI (the monitor also offers a DP connection). I have a limit of a 500W PSU, which is far more than needed when considering that I really don't need as strong a card as selected above.
What should I be looking at? From my "gaming" perspective I recall the 6400 being a card to avoid for a variety of reasons. I really don't know if those shortcomings matter for a static screen office use case.
The card I am looking at above is:
white, has a backplate, will work with the existing new PSU
I wouldn't have an issue using a smaller black card such as a half height (with full size I/O plate) as it will hide under the cooler anyway. In that case no supplemental power would be preferred. I just don't know what to look at so far as possible models. Closer to about half the $210 the above card is listed at wouldn't be bad if it will run the proper resolution and not letterbox.