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I'm looking at the dell's 20in widscreen and the 21in regular screen. So does it makes a difference when playing games? I mean for dvd's movies that have widescreen will take advantage of that, but for games??? Or is it just preference? How would a VC 7800gt will hold up for these type of monitors? 
Games look best imo using widescreen. The 7800's do fine, so do the 1800's 
Quake 4 rocks widescreen at 1920x1200 max quality settings
| Quote : Games look best imo using widescreen. The 7800's do fine, so do the 1800's |
Could you explain how it does better in WS??? Hey rich I know you commeted on my choosing a VC and I posted a new thread which is easier for people to help me out. I know I didn't mean to double post but I had to, to make the changes so people will comment. the thread is called "Here are my TOP choices what do you gusy think". Later.
Widescreens have less viewing area. People lie and say that because the screen is wider, you get more viewing area. Because screens are actually measured diagonally, you don't. You'd get the most viewing area from a square screen, but those don't exist. 4x3 screens have more viewing area than 16:9 screens of the same size.
A 21" 4x3 screen has 218 square inches of viewing area, a 21" 16:9 widescreen has 211 square inches viewing area 
Do the math yourself, you loose the equivelent of a 7x1" strip of space by going to wide screen with a 21" display. Pathagoreans theorum works, the @ key performs the square root function in Windows calculator.
Who Cares?... Widescreens Look Better And Help To "Draw" You Into The Games.... And Besides A Humans Vision Is Naturally In A Widescreen Format So Why Fight It, I Happen To Own One Of The Best (But Surely Not The Biggest) Widescreens There Is (With A .23mm Dot Pitch And CRT Color Accuracy No Less) Its 97% Color-Accurate And Is A 17.3" w/1600x1024 Resolution (Made By Silicon Graphics) And Games Look Absolutely INCREDIBLE And Lifelike 
| Quote : Widescreens have less viewing area. People lie and say that because the screen is wider, you get more viewing area. Because screens are actually measured diagonally, you don't. You'd get the most viewing area from a square screen, but those don't exist. 4x3 screens have more viewing area than 16:9 screens of the same size.
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Then why does the movie industry uses the widscreen format???
| Quote : You can make up for the fact that your 20" monitor will be fairly small by sitting closer to it. |
Temper, temper mrs. Cashman. Got some anger issue dont we.
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