Need help matching video card with monitor

I'm not sure if this is the right group to ask this question. If not, would
appreciate directions to a more appropriate one.

I recently switched from a CRT monitor with an aspect ration of 4:3 to an LCD
monitor with aspect ratio of 5:3.

The screen resolutions available on my video card with aspect ratios of 5:3 are:

960x600
1280x800
1440x900

I want to use the 960x600, but the text in this resolution is rendered quite
sloppily, as is the text in the 1280x800 resolution. The text in the 1440x900
resolution is rendered quite neat, but very small.

The text in resolutions other than the appropriate ones for this widescreen monitor,
render the text quite neat, but distort the graphics. I'm hoping there must be a way
to use a screen resolution in the neighborhood of 960x600 that renders the text in a
neat fashion.

The monitor is Viewsonic VG1930WM

The video card is Nvidia GeForce4 440 with AGP8X.

Would I benefit from a video card upgrade to accomplish what I have described?

It doesn't seem to matter which application the text is in, everything that I wrote
above applies.

Thanks,
Jack

LCD screens are best set to their native resolution anything less can impact
on the display.
Presumably you've visited NVidea for a driver update?

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> I'm not sure if this is the right group to ask this question. If not,
> would
> appreciate directions to a more appropriate one.
>
> I recently switched from a CRT monitor with an aspect ration of 4:3 to an
> LCD
> monitor with aspect ratio of 5:3.
>
> The screen resolutions available on my video card with aspect ratios of
> 5:3 are:
>
> 960x600
> 1280x800
> 1440x900
>
> I want to use the 960x600, but the text in this resolution is rendered
> quite
> sloppily, as is the text in the 1280x800 resolution. The text in the
> 1440x900 resolution is rendered quite neat, but very small.
>
> The text in resolutions other than the appropriate ones for this
> widescreen monitor, render the text quite neat, but distort the graphics.
> I'm hoping there must be a way to use a screen resolution in the
> neighborhood of 960x600 that renders the text in a neat fashion.
>
> The monitor is Viewsonic VG1930WM
>
> The video card is Nvidia GeForce4 440 with AGP8X.
>
> Would I benefit from a video card upgrade to accomplish what I have
> described?
>
> It doesn't seem to matter which application the text is in, everything
> that I wrote above applies.
>
> Thanks,
> Jack