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i was wondering why there are no reveiws on pretty much any website on any grapics cards at 1680 x 1050(22in. widescreen monitor) resolution or for that matter 1440x900(19in. widescreen monitor). The price difference between a 24in and 22in is still in favor of the 22in and a lot of computer componies (HP, Compaq, Dell etc.) are now selling these size monitors as a package deal. Im all for what a graphics card can do at 2400x1600 and beyond but when i am looking to upgrade my graphics cards i want to know how a particular card will work at a set resolution similar to my own. After all, isnt that what reviews are all about?

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im not sure. BUT if u wanna run resolution smaller than what the reviewers have reviewed. ill say ull get better frame raters if ur cpu aint being a bottleneck.

naw, i was just wondering why there are no reviews on 1680x1050, it seems to always go from 1280x1024 to 2400x1600(or something like that)

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They tend to review 1600x1200. Since this is so close to 1680x1050 (within 10%), they don't bother with reviewing them both. At least I think that's what I heard.

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I have a 1680x1050 moniter too. I wondered what was the closest resolution........... So I guess I should look at benchies at 1600x1200 to see good I will do at that res?

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Reply to physx7

1) Most people game on 4:3 displays rather than widescreen. The review sites cater to the majority.

2) Many games do not natively support widescreen resolutions. Even when they do, many gamers still run 4:3. Also, since widescreen support is less abundant that fullscreen, review sites stick with what is popular and consistent.

Many review sites do include tests at 1600x1200. This is rather close to 1680x1050 in terms of performance.

1600x1200 = 1,920,000 pixels
1680x1050 = 1,764,000 pixels

You can see that 1680x1050 will have a slight performance advantage over 1600x1200 because it has ~8% fewer pixels. So if you are looking at a review site, check out the 1600x1200 results and add about 8% to their results, and you can expect that to be close to what you'd get.

Example
40 fps x 1.08 = 43.2 fps

Reply to qwertycopter

Yep.

We've discussed this at Tom's and never worried abiout it much because the effective numbers of pixels are so close.

Having said that, our last system builder marathon included 1650x1050 bernches instead of 1600x1200.

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Hardware Editor, Tom's Hardware Guide
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Wow, cool, thank you all for the overwhelming response in such a short amount of time. especiall you qwertycopter, i will use your equation from now on. Again thank you all for your quick responses. To cleeve, i look forward to reading your system builder marathon benches.

Reply to Revo1280

I was looking for the same thing and found these:
Techspot
Legion Hardware

Reply to rook

And if you ever get a game that doesn't support your 1680x1050 res check out this site: http://www.widescreengamingforum.c [...] s_List_-_A

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thx for the links guys

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