If I were to lower a 24" monitor from it's native resolution of 1920x1200 to 1680x1050, without using pixel mapping (that would turn it into 16" viewable area), how much worse would the image quality be?
While something like that wouldn't be extremely bad and noticeable (as you aren't going down in resolution heavily), you will see the difference if you had a monitor with a natve resolution of 1680x1050 to compare to.
Pretty much (depending on how it's scaling) it'll become more blurer, or at least thats how it is in my experience.
The default behavior of most LCD monitors is to stretch a lower resolution image to fill the screen. Some people who don't use the monitor's native resolution aren't bothered by this, but it really annoys me. I can always clearly tell the difference between an LCD monitor's native resolution and a lower one.
That said, the NVIDIA Control Panel does have other options for image scaling. You may want to try the NVIDIA scaling options to see if you prefer the image quality at full screen. Or you can choose not to use any scaling and the image will be centered in the screen. Since most 24" monitors have a pixel pitch of .27mm, using 1680x1050 without scaling would get you about a 21" picture with black borders around it.
Really? I just did the math of 30% less pixels so 30% less screen size. If it will be 21" using pixel mapping, that would be great. I get it later this month, so I will know then.
How did you figure out that 1680x1050 would still be 21"?Manly-manly-man
1680 / 1920 = x / 24"
x = 21"
Since the aspect ratio remains the same, we only have to work with one measurement. Of course, if the aspect ratio changed, we could use the pythagorean theorem to find the measurements.
ex: 1024 x 768
a^2 + b^2 = c ^2
(16x)^2 + (10x)^2 = 24^2
256x^2 + 100x^2 = 576
356x^2 = 576
x^2 = 1.6179
x = 1.271
16(1.271)" x 10(1.271)" aka your screen is 20.35" wide by 12.72" high
1024 / 1920 = x / 20.35" = 10.85"
768 / 1200 = x / 12.72" = 8.14"
So at 1024x768, you'd have a 10.85" x 8.14" box, which has a diagonal measure of roughly 13.56" (4:3).
Oh, well then, this whole thread was pointless, haha. 21" is fine, not bad at all, still bigger then this crap CRT, and I should be able to run any game at 1680x1050. Except maybe Crysis...
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