Monitor Help? 1080p v 1200p? Reccomandations?

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Hi,

I would like to know if a 1200p (1920x1200) monitor is better than a 1080p (1920x1080) for gaming.
Will it make much of a difference in quality?
How big is the FPS Drop?

What size is best for 1200p compared to 1080p?
27" at 1200p?
24" at 1080p?

Any recommendations for a monitor? 2MS response preferably. 5MS is fine.
1080p or 1200p is fine.
LED/IPS please.

Also will the game run at 1200p?
I heard that it produces black bars on the screen if it can not use that resolution?
Will this be a problem?
Will a 1200p cause black bars in many games? No games at all? Very few games?

Im running a GTX 680 Signature 2 Card.
 
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I've used a very nice Dell 24 inch 1920X1200 for several years and loved the 16X10 display. Never had a problem with any game not working and no black bars except for when watching movie trailers at the extreme 2.35:1 ratio. Normally when watching 16X9 content, the frames around the video fill the extra vertical area anyway, not an issue. The extra vertical room is really nice for putting up text documents or web browsing, the extra vertical area is nice. I upgraded to a 2560X1600 monitor 30 inch. Needles to say, even better. Your FPS will be 1080/1200 or 90% of what they used to be.
 
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Not really much of a change in FPS as far as gaming is concerned. As for black bars in games that would only be a problem if the game does not let you select 1200p. There are a very few games that would not. I remember The Witcher 2 did not when it first came out and would give you black bars on the top and bottom it has since been patched to fix that.

As for gaming in general I think I am just used to my Asus 27" 1080p monitors a friend of mine has a 1200p and it is nice I just like gaming on my 3 Asus 27" Eyefinity/Surround setup I miss it when I go to his house with just one monitor even though it is a better monitor than mine but I could not afford 3 of those.

In short as long as you get a good monitor I do not think it will really matter that much if it is 1080p or 1200p as long as you are happy with it and it does what you want.
 
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You won't notice any difference between 2ms and 5ms....heck go 7ms and there isn't any difference....its at 10ms and above that you will see a difference.
 
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The only difference between 1920x1200 and 1920x1080 is the difference of 120 rows of pixels. From a performance perspective, you will get slightly less performance with a game is rendered 1920x1200 instead of 1920x1080 because of the extra pixels that the graphics card must push. Personally, I prefer 1920x1200 monitors. The extra rows means I have a larger desktop space and when I am reading something, I do not have to scroll down as often.

I suppose I am also used to using a 16:10 aspect ratio monitor vs. a 16:9 aspect ratio monitor. I have both versions. My 24" Asus VK246H (TN panel) is a 1920x1080 monitor, however, it just feels weird when I look at it. In fact, I stopped using it altogether back in Oct 2012. I packed it up in it's original box and never took it out again.
 
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Are you talking about the U2412M? That's the only 24" Dell 1200p monitor I can find. Quick search though. Compared to a 1080p monitor, what do you think about gaming Performance and Quality? I wont be playing old games. Mostly titles from 2009 upwards. I do watch movies, not a lot. So it isn't a problem right? With movies or games? So instead of nothing there it will fill it with black bars. Okay, thanks.
I do like to read through a lot of things because I'm nosy so I guess that will help.
Would you say 24" 1200p or 1080p?
27" 1200p or 1080p?
I don't mind putting down AA a tiny bit since I don't really look at jagged edges. I just play.
 
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The only games that wont support 1200p will probably be either very newly released games but with a high rare chance of it not supporting 1200p? And old games when 1200p wasn't around? I'm sure all games I play support 1200p.

Im not planning to do Eyefinity or surround yet. So I was thinking a 27" 1200p monitor. Course if my family pays for it that is. Right now I have a 24.6" 1080p monitor. Picked that up for £50. Sometimes I think its a tiny bit big. Others tiny bit small. Cant decide.
Im stuck on getting a 24" 1080p IPS. Maybe a 1200p 24" IPS but people say not too.
Or a 27" 1200p IPS. if I do plan too do surround.. That will be a long time away yet.

Im leaning towards a 1200p IPS 27" monitor. Yes, expensive so I might not be able to get that, which means most likely a 1080p IPS 24" monitor.
 
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So I guess 5ms is the sweet spot then. 5ms it is then I think!
 
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How big is the performance difference from 1080p too 1200p?
How many frame rates average will I drop? First I had thought of a 1440p monitor.
But price and GPU performance loss will haunt me-.-
I guess 5 or so FPS drop is fine when at 1200p because I can drop a aa setting down.
Most people prefer 1200p monitors.
I cant test a 1200p monitor in real life because im 14 and of course none of my friends are really PC gamers and that.
I like reading stuff to be fair^.^

The only thing that is annoying me right now is that movies will have black bars.
Also I heard that I cant do 1200p with a HDMI cable am I correct?
So you're saying that your PX2611W monitor (in your sig) IPS 1200p monitor is better than your old 1080p TN monitor?
Well that's leaning me towards a 1200p one now since you said that the 1080p one has been packed away meaning the 1200p basically smashes it?:3
 
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The only difference is that a 1200 monitor is 16x10 not 16x9 and a little extra vertical space there will be about a 10% framerate drop between the two. The real difference that he is talking about that he put his old monitor away for was the fact that IPS is generally better than TN....
 
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A 1200p monitor has about 11% more pixels than a 1080p monitor. To keep things simple, let's just say you will see a 11% drop in performance. A 1440p monitor has 60% more pixels than a 1200p monitor so, again to keep things simple, you will see a 60% in performance. Compared to a 1080p the 1440p has 78% more pixels so you will see a 78% drop in performance.

For high performance gaming on a 1440p or 1600p monitor, you will need to spend a hefty amount of cash on a graphic card to get good performance. You will need two graphic cards for really good performance. Of course there are game out there that do not care how powerful your hardware is; they are so demanding (like Hitman: Absolution & Metro 2033) that your PC will feel sluggish. Of course, if you are will to devote unlimited amount of cash, then you can get pretty good performance.

Here's Hitman: Absolution with some high end cards at 2560x1600 resolution.

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Source: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_Titan/17.html

Generally playable on expensive cards. But there are gamers out there who demands no less than 60 frames per second. In that case a good recommendation would be 3 nVidia GTX Titans at a cost of $1,000 each.

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Source: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_Titan_SLI/16.html
 
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