4:3 5:4 picture on a 1680* 1050 monitor
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Hello, I'm going to buy a stationary computer in the near future. As I like to play some older games that lackes the suport of wide screen picture, I thougt that i'd go for a monitor with normal wide hight relation. However I just resently picked up that there are widescreen monitors like the: Samsung 2032BW and the Lg l222ws-sn which can show 5:4 and 4:3 material withoute rescaling it. This seems to be a good solution as you get 3 monitors in one so to speak. I have a couple of questions about this:
1) Can the screen take damage from showing a picture with black borders for a long period of time?
2) Is it a worse strain for the eyes to wath a picture with black borders instead of a full screen picture?
3) Can demanding games like Crysis that probably will be hard to run in 1680*1050 res take benefitte from lowering the res to 1280* 1024 when it comes to framerate that is?
4) Does a 20 " screen with the same amount of pixels as a 22" screen give a more "densed" and therefore clearer picture than the 22"? Some say that the 22" is easyer on the eyes so to speak?
Im wery thankful if someone with experiense from these monitors can giwe some help regarding these issues.
P.S. I appologuise for any bad spelling or wrong using of terms as english is'nt my first language.
Pizzicato/Sweden
1) Can the screen take damage from showing a picture with black borders for a long period of time?
2) Is it a worse strain for the eyes to wath a picture with black borders instead of a full screen picture?
3) Can demanding games like Crysis that probably will be hard to run in 1680*1050 res take benefitte from lowering the res to 1280* 1024 when it comes to framerate that is?
4) Does a 20 " screen with the same amount of pixels as a 22" screen give a more "densed" and therefore clearer picture than the 22"? Some say that the 22" is easyer on the eyes so to speak?
Im wery thankful if someone with experiense from these monitors can giwe some help regarding these issues.
P.S. I appologuise for any bad spelling or wrong using of terms as english is'nt my first language.
Pizzicato/Sweden
More about : picture 1680 1050 monitor
Hi and welcome to the forum im not an expert on these things but will tell you what i know.
1. If its a Lcd screen then its ok they dont get the image burnt in to the screen thing the way a CRT used to you in fact dont actually need a screen saver on a LCD screen as it does nothing for the screen it would be better to let it hibernate.
2. I dont see how. the side of the monitor or a tv are basically black bands i have never noticed any problems when watching a widescreen movie on a standard screen in a letterbox (lines top and bottom)
3. This all depends on your hardware and how well its balanced if you are running at 1680x1050 it is reasonable to assume that it will run faster at 1280x1024 and this would normally be the case. But it is possable that this will not be the case sometimes this just allows the GPU to run faster (its doing less now) than the CPU can keep up with, this will cause an artificial bottleneck on the CPU.
This would typically happen with a high end GPU and lower end CPU.You wont really know untill you try it but normally it would work the way you suggest.
4. This im really not sure on you will have to wait for someone with more knowledge in this area than myself.
Mactronix![:)]( ":)")
1. If its a Lcd screen then its ok they dont get the image burnt in to the screen thing the way a CRT used to you in fact dont actually need a screen saver on a LCD screen as it does nothing for the screen it would be better to let it hibernate.
2. I dont see how. the side of the monitor or a tv are basically black bands i have never noticed any problems when watching a widescreen movie on a standard screen in a letterbox (lines top and bottom)
3. This all depends on your hardware and how well its balanced if you are running at 1680x1050 it is reasonable to assume that it will run faster at 1280x1024 and this would normally be the case. But it is possable that this will not be the case sometimes this just allows the GPU to run faster (its doing less now) than the CPU can keep up with, this will cause an artificial bottleneck on the CPU.
This would typically happen with a high end GPU and lower end CPU.You wont really know untill you try it but normally it would work the way you suggest.
4. This im really not sure on you will have to wait for someone with more knowledge in this area than myself.
Mactronix
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