[QUOTE=collegegrad;23317462]So now he's saying future games I won't be able to max out. He sure is confusing.[/QUOTE]
For future games, the 5970 wont be able to max out. How far in the future are we talking about?
4770 can max stuff on 1920x1080 >_>
This thread made me laugh. Thank you friend of collegegrad.
1080p is great for me!
[QUOTE=Nexosz;23317516]Tell him that HD9800 isn't better than 5850 HD[/QUOTE]
HD9800? 5850 HD? what
[QUOTE=Thor667;23317597]For future games, the 5970 wont be able to max out. How far in the future are we talking about?[/QUOTE]
Next year.
1600x1200. Biggest 4:3 monitor made I'm pretty sure.
Your friends an idiot.
Get:
5850+1080P Monitor
[QUOTE=Zoo;23317853]1600x1200. Biggest 4:3 monitor made I'm pretty sure.[/QUOTE]
not even close. I'm rocking 1920x1440, the third largest standard 4:3 resolution available to CRT monitors. Some go up to 2048x1536, and some up to 2560x1920. I'm sure you can go even higher with LCD monitors, the largest named 4:3 resolution is 6400x4800 (HUXGA), and the largest resolution named overall is 7680x4800 (16:10, WHUXGA)
Hell my 9600GT runs most my games maxed out. Only games I have issue with are GTA4 and JC2
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Tell your friend that Mac2468 says he's a dumbass.
Your friend belongs in this thread. [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=956696[/url]
I run a 4870 on two monitors, a 24" 1080p and a 24" 1200p monitor. Games look great on both. Destroy your friend.
Scaling almost always look a bit shit, so get the res that you use the most.
[QUOTE=collegegrad;23315832]So I have been talking to a friend of mine, and he said that if I get a GPU like the GTX460 or the HD5850 I won't be able to run many of the newer games on 1080p. So I said that I would just run them on 720p, it didn't matter to me.
So he said then I shouldn't get a 1080p monitor since 720p resolution will look like shit on a 1080p monitor, because unlike TVs, monitors don't upscale input.
So what do I do? Do I get a 720p monitor? Do I not any of the GPUs out now?
I am very confused and I need someone to confirm this for me.[/QUOTE] you can play games on 1080p but you will have lower some settings (by not very much) to achieve some good fps
and if you have an 1080p monitor and you play games on 720p it won't look badm well it might look bad if you have a shitty screen, but most screens today are pretty good so you can buy a 1080p monitor without any worries
Ps and Is and Ps and Is and WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH 1920x1080?
I think my 1440x900 monitor looks fine,
Now if only I wasn't using this prebuilt's crappy onboard video card.
Games always look much better at native resolution. If everything is properly antialiased, the upscaled picture can look quite decent, otherwise it will look like shit. But then you need antialiasing to begin with, you might as well play at full res without AA instead.
Actually, there's a useful trick to improve performance on 1280x1024 monitors; run games at 1280x800 or even 1280x720(i don't really like the 16:9 ratio though), and turn off the scaling in your graphics card control panel. It can bring a nice boost in performance and you usually don't even notice the black bars on top and bottom of the screen. It really came in useful for maxing Crysis and Clear Sky on a 4850.
It all depends on your hardware... however your friend is an idiot. You could run pretty much any game on max settings with those cards on a hd monitor.
I got 1440 x 900 and it's perfect for me.
ITT people who don't know what the p is for after 1080 and 720.
[QUOTE=pebkac;23325926]Games always look much better at native resolution. If everything is properly antialiased, the upscaled picture can look quite decent, otherwise it will look like shit. But then you need antialiasing to begin with, you might as well play at full res without AA instead.
Actually, there's a useful trick to improve performance on 1280x1024 monitors; run games at 1280x800 or even 1280x720(i don't really like the 16:9 ratio though), and turn off the scaling in your graphics card control panel. It can bring a nice boost in performance and you usually don't even notice the black bars on top and bottom of the screen. It really came in useful for maxing Crysis and Clear Sky on a 4850.[/QUOTE]
You can only do that if your monitor has the option to disable its scaling too. And a lot don't.
[QUOTE=liquid_phase;23326437]ITT people who don't know what the p is for after 1080 and 720.[/QUOTE]
Itt you don't.
[QUOTE=Xera;23326628]Itt you don't.[/QUOTE]
How many people have an interlaced display for their computer on facepunch. Oh wait, noone, which is why adding a p to any sort of monitor resolution is stupid and shows the person doing it doesn't understand the difference between progressive scan and interlaced and added it because they think it makes them look knowledgeable.
1080p implies Full HD, and is shortest to type. 1080 alone means nothing.
1440x900 :smug:
The HD5850 eats everything on 1080p resolution, maxed out. Your friend is dumb. Even next year most current year cards will be able to max out games unless there are some miraculous jumps in graphics technology.
[QUOTE=BmB;23326766]1080p implies Full HD, and is shortest to type. 1080 alone means nothing.[/QUOTE]
Full HD is a television broadcast standard. Sure it means 1920 x 1080 in a computing context, but when you see someone write 1200p it shows they know fuck all about the topic. My vitriol isn't aimed at people using 1080p or 720p, it's at people who use random resolutions and append a p to those.
GTX460 is clearly a good card for playing (almost) every game on 1080p with settings maxed out
(When I said almost, don't except about Crysis, but who cares about a bad optimized game ?)
1200p isn't technically inaccurate though.
Crysis isn't poorly optimized. It's pretty well done actually. Now compare Arma II which has a similar level of detail but performs 2x worse. That's "bad" optimized.
It just really is that demanding.
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