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Is there a way to check how high your resolution on your card goes without actually buying a $500 monitor first?
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First of all, you know the answer will be yes, so you might ask "I have a xxx controller, but don't know what resolutions it support" istead and you would have gotten a good answer directly.
http://www.intel.com/support/graphic.../CS-013743.htm