New Monitor

[Ghastly]

Two reasons:

1) Availability.  Have you tried to find a quality 1280x1024 monitor lately? Or one that's larger than about 21 inches?  Sometimes the "ideal" choice just isn't available, or cost effective.

2) Flexibility.  Not everyone does only a single task on a computer.  If the choice is a 24" 1920 x 1080 monitor that might well be ideal for other things, and that scales to a crystal clear lower resolution that doesn't take up the whole screen instead going with a 21" 1280x1024 because you absolutely have to run an application that only works well at 4/3 - well why not?

<S>

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Two reasons:

1) Availability.  Have you tried to find a quality 1280x1024 monitor lately? Or one that's larger than about 21 inches?  Sometimes the "ideal" choice just isn't available, or cost effective.

2) Flexibility.  Not everyone does only a single task on a computer.  If the choice is a 24" 1920 x 1080 monitor that might well be ideal for other things, and that scales to a crystal clear lower resolution that doesn't take up the whole screen instead going with a 21" 1280x1024 because you absolutely have to run an application that only works well at 4/3 - well why not?

<S>

Actually they can be found they're just not labeled as consumer monitors but advertisement screens. They're meant to display ads in shop windows. Low resolution but large screen. There may be a pitfall of response speed though, I reckon advertisements do not require 2ms refresh speed.

[Nutzoid]

Well guys, I want to thank each and everyone of you for the wealth of info provided! I knew all I had to do was ask.   

As it turns out, I decided to go with a monitor from Tiger, a Sceptre X245W-1080P with 1920x1080, 40,000:1 Dynamic, 1000:1 Native 16:9 2ms and so on. Supposed to be delivered today or tomorrow.

Hope it's a good'un! Again thanks all!


Nutz

[mbailey]

Just curious sir, im in the market for a new monitor myself. How did your new one work out for you?

<S>

Mbailey

[Nutzoid]

Just curious sir, I'm in the market for a new monitor myself. How did your new one work out for you?

<S>

Mbailey

It was delivered on the 24Th, while I was out of town for the holidays. Just got in this morning and I'm at work right now. Soon as I get home though........
I'll post something later and let you know. 

[Nutzoid]

Truly amazing! The difference is like night and day! So much of a change, it's gonna take some getting used to! I logged on to the game tonight, and thought I had some sort of eye surgery, lol.  The detail I could make out was unbelievable, and that was without HI Res and using VGA connectors. The next purchase will be a DVI cable and then we'll see if it all comes together like I hope it will!  

Nutz

[Fulmar]

Running at non-native resolution demolishes image quality in 99% of cases. The problem is not so visible with games but with text processing it will be a nightmare. Generally the interpolation will make the image really soft in the corners, even blurry.

So while possible I wouldn't recommend it if it can be avoided.

In the OP's case though it may be his only available option short of purchasing a new small CRT or second hand large CRT.

What this guy said.

[mbailey]

Good to hear sir!!

Gents,
I too have a low end computer ( intel graphics chip ) Suprisingly it plays the game very well as i have the memory maxed out, no sutters solid 45FR, no super eyecandy though, but can play with sliders allthe way to the left ( distance sliders that is.) Im currently on a 17" monitor i believe max is 1024X768. Do you think i could get away with a 22" monitor?

Any suggestions would help

Thank you

Mbailey

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Good to hear sir!!

Gents,
I too have a low end computer ( intel graphics chip ) Suprisingly it plays the game very well as i have the memory maxed out, no sutters solid 45FR, no super eyecandy though, but can play with sliders allthe way to the left ( distance sliders that is.) Im currently on a 17" monitor i believe max is 1024X768. Do you think i could get away with a 22" monitor?

Any suggestions would help

Thank you

Mbailey

As a rule of thumb the higher you set the resolution the more power it takes to run the graphics. Memory is also one factor so you might get drastic drops in performance if you go over 1024x768. You'll know only after you try and if it won't run then a cheap graphics card will fix it.