safe to test new monitor on my old system

siftings81

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thanks to the hot deals forum i picked up a new samsung 19" crt. I plan on building a pc soon, but in the meanwhile i'm still using an old pentium 133 with integrated video with only a meg of video memory. Could I test my new monitor with my old system? maybe with 256 colors?
 

Migroo

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Yes of course. Running a monitor at a low res is fine.

Trouble comes when you try and run a monitor at a higher res than it should be able to, ie: 2048x2048 on an old 12" Apple Studio display... ;)