best resolution for gaming?

1440x900 on a 19" monitor IMO, is the best compromise of both worlds. On one hand, your graphics card need not be too expensive or powerful to handle that res. A HD3850 is certainly more than good enough.

A 19" widescreen with 14x9 res isn't going to cost much as well.

It also depends on your hardware.jhunte99

agree. if you have like a mid range video card.. like the 9600gt, or the 3850 ideally you would like to have that at 1680x1050, but if you have more of the powerful cards like the 8800GTS/GTX or 9800GX2, 3780X2 (list goes on and on) you can actually consider it at 2560x1900 but that might be abit high so typically ppl put it at the 1900x1200 to acheive both good fps and image quality

22"

1680x1050 is usually the G spot

512 x 480. thats what gamers r using now adays.

512 x 480. thats what gamers r using now adays.

killax3563

Are you serious?

[QUOTE="killax3563"]

512 x 480. thats what gamers r using now adays.

kelkimble2k4

Are you serious?

yeah i know tell me abt it

[QUOTE="killax3563"]

512 x 480. thats what gamers r using now adays.

kelkimble2k4

Are you serious?

[QUOTE="kelkimble2k4"][QUOTE="killax3563"]

512 x 480. thats what gamers r using now adays.

kidcool189

Are you serious?

Not really...But still O.o

jsut dish out some more cash and get yourself a 2560x1900 moniter
well ive heard theres this one moniter at that resolution as native but also looks the same at non native res aswel

anyone know what moniter this is??
i think it was an ASUS cant rember, might get one later on, depending on how much it is and how much the Alienware curve secrren isLehman

Dell has a Auto-cad 22" CRT able for that resolution...

Well it´s a triniton, I own one, amasing colors and dark and the 120hz is nice but still it´s a CRT.

I have 2 monitor one is a 19" the other is a hdtv/monitor and it is a 32". The 19" one I gave to my Mom and it looks great. It could go up to 1440x900 but she has a internal card and I don't think it can hadle that size also she doesn't play that many games and the ones she do play are things like luxor and that sort of stuff.

Now for my 32" one that one is mine and I use it to play games like sc C&C 3 rts games mainly and so at the moment I have a 8600gt xxx 256mb card but soon will change that to a 9600gt superclocked or a 8800gt both of wich has 512mb.

1920x1080 this is my tvs max or it could be the gpus max I'm not sure wich but anyways by far I don't play any games at that setting. I mainly play at 1024x768 in most of my games and at that rez they all look very nice.

1280x720 this is the rez I play sc at and it does ok with the setting on high only 2 are at this level the rest are off or low.

I'm hopping down the road when I get another 1 gig of ram + the 8800gt or the 9600gt that once all are to gether then maybe sc would run smoother and the settings can be moved from some on low or off to medium at least.

If this don't work then I'll just wait until I build my self pc.

With what hardware?

If it were mine \/ i'd say 14x9 Crysis or 16x10 for normal games.

I have a 22" monitor and I use 1680x1050 (max resolution) pretty much because anything lower won't work in-game. I get weird stuff happening and major stuttering. I thought it was the monitor, but if I reboot into vista, I can use any resolution I want and the games run just dandy....go figure.

For a 23" monitor would 2048 by 1152 be good

For a 23" monitor would 2048 by 1152 be good

skull_

This thread did not need to be reawakened lol, you are forgiven since you are a noob (every single time an old thread is opened it is on someones first post!)