A few months ago I decided to change my sh crt monitor dating back from 1998 to a brand new LCD. For some funny reason, I was under the impression that the square format is more game oriented so I purchased a budget/cheap Samsung dating from January 2010 that can only display a resolution of 1280x1024. It's a 19" display.

A few days ago I noticed a 22"' wide philips full hd 1080 p with a resolution of 1960x... or something. Would that be too much? I know that the LCD's come with a recommended resolution, so I'm thinking I should choose more carefully this time.

21,5" 1920x1080

24" 1920x1200

Hah, my penis...    I mean my screen is bigger than yours.

When you ask, "would that be too much?" what are you wondering about? resolution per screen size? Effect of resolution on frame rate? The monitor you get and the resolution you run in and the effect on frame rate/preformance is going to be heavily dependant on the graphics card you have.

Personally, I have a triple monitor setup and I will run in bezel compensaed resolution of 6048x1080 when games will support it. Not all single player games will support multiple monitor setups, but most MMO's do for the most part. Err forgot to say the monitors I use are all the same kind @ 24".

65" 1920x1080

Originally posted by gatheris

65" 1920x1080

Can't you get a higher resolution with such a big tv?

You must be very popular with the women. *nudge nudge*

Resolutions for huge TV's are still pretty limited.

Damn all these high resolutions, I'm on a 21' with 1400x900 and I'm happy with that.

19" 1440x900

But then again, my netbook is 7" 640x400...

Originally posted by Panther2103

Damn all these high resolutions, I'm on a 21' with 1400x900 and I'm happy with that.

Noooo, don't be happy go for 24" there is where all the true happiness really is.

28" 1680X1050.  Whoever said size wasn't important had a small moniter;)

Originally posted by Mellow44

Originally posted by gatheris

65" 1920x1080

Can't you get a higher resolution with such a big tv?

You must be very popular with the women. *nudge nudge*

 heheh

it's a DLP so not really necessary - you don't see the individual pixels

plus adding resolution would make the font on most games teeny-tiny 'cause the developers rarely provide a way to let you adjust font sizes where it counts

24" - 1680x1050.  Anything higher than 1680x1050 just doesn't "feel" right to me these days, and anything smaller just seems shoddy looking, unless it's just going to 4:3.

I use a 42" tv for my pc monitor at 1920x1200 resolution, games look awesome ;D

1920*1080

Originally posted by gatheris

 heheh

it's a DLP so not really necessary - you don't see the individual pixels

plus adding resolution would make the font on most games teeny-tiny 'cause the developers rarely provide a way to let you adjust font sizes where it counts

True. My 30" Dell can do 2560x1600, but the dot pitch is so small that it tends to make it hard to make out small details. And even when the game allows you to alter the fonts, they rarely remember to increase the size of the boxes that the words go in, so it just starts to look stupid.

Been thinking real hard of switching to a good 1080P television - only half the pixels makes a world of difference in framerate sometimes, and if you have graphics power to spare, just pile on the layers of AA.

I'm at 21" and usually play 1440x900, not because I can't go higher, but because it defaults there, it looks fine there and I don't usually bother.  I'm not interested in eye-candy, it looks good enough, I'm happy.

24" 1920x1200.

1600 X 900 suits me best.

1680x1050 as its native for my monitor.