Resolution question

[leo2kp]

Hello everyone,

I'm ripping the C2D E6600 (3GHz) out of my TT Armor and slapping in an i7 920, mating it with 6GB of RAM and Vista Ultimate 64. I'm also replacing my 9800GTX with a GTX260 Core 216 Superclocked ($250 ftw) and getting a new monitor (have a 19" at 1280x1024) The thing I'm not so sure about is what reslution will this thing handle. I've been checking out reviews of the new 260 and they look good, but the monitor I'm looking at is a 1080p and I'm not sure where 1920x1080 sits vs 1920x1200 and 1680x1050. I don't see many benchmarks with 1080 resolution, so hopefully the performance is somewhere in the middle. I'm a little more worried about the amount of RAM in the video card vs the 280 than the speed too.

One more thing to highlight is the Core i7. I know it pwns and I plan on overclocking to at least 3GHz. I don't want to SLI right now so does anyone think that getting the HD monitor will be ok even if I play Crysis at relatively high settings, considering Core i7 and a single video card? Should I drop to the 1680x1050 display?

 

[leo2kp]

I guess another question is, should I drop to 1680x1050 and keep the 9800GTX? :-/

 

[Zenthar]

Most "Full HD" PC monitors are 1920x1200, they started making 1920x1080 probably to leverage their 1920x1080 production lines I guess and/or because people were confused and/or so people could watch Full HD suff on their monitor without any black stips.

If you want to go "full HD", I suggest you go 1920x1200 rather than 1920x1080, the extra "lines" would make it better to read/write text (word, internet, ...) as you won't have to scroll so much. But, as you said, the extra resolution requires GPU power.

Depending on the games you play, I would recommend 280GTX or 4870X2 for a 1920x1200 resolution, the extra "pixels" cost a lot .

 

[leo2kp]

In that case I'll drop to 1680x1050 to save on money. I'm getting an HDTV eventually anyway

 

[shiv666]

youll get x1080 resolution if you connect it to an hdtv...some reason monitors dont come in x1080

 

[shiv666]

samsung hdtvs are nice.....just saying...