1.  What size monitor are you thinking of ?

 

2.  Are you going to game ?

 

3.  How much are you willing to spend ?

 

Any modern card will work with a wide monitor, but if you game than you should consider a higher ended card such as the 8800 GT.

 

If not, than a 8600 GT or GTS version will work, and you can think of a 7950 GT as well.  Many to choose from.

Thanks. I don't game at all and have a 22" Envision monitor with recommended 1680x1050 res @ 60Hz. My old machine only supports 1600x1200 but it's really a piece of junk anymore. I'm considering just a low end desktop. I put the specs together via dell for Inspiron 530 and it shows video card as Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accel 3100. I can figure that most modern cards would support the wide screen res, I just want to make sure this one DOES as it's the main reason I'm buying a new system.

 

 

I have a samsung 20" widescreen LCD monitor and I use a eVGA 8800GT video card to power it.  It works marvelously.  I play a lot of America's Army and I play at 1680x1050 with all the options on highest settings and the card still pegs the game at the maximum framerate that the netplay game engine will allow it (85FPS).

No gaming.. EVER

 

Than you do not need a top of the line video card.  A 8600 GT or GTS will work.  You can get a 7900 GT card for even less if you wish.  But if you just want one game someday that is really graphical intense, than consider a 7950 GT as the least and maybe a 8800 GT as ty_ger mentioned. 

 

www.newegg.com has some nice cards in the video card section to think about. 

Mine's perfect at 1680x1050 on a 22 inch Dell screen.......plays 720 & 1080 HD movies perfectly aswell. All that from a graphics card that comes free in a Christmas cracker!

i don't think you should go with ati or intel. for graphics go always with nVidia :-)