I think im in need for a new monitor ive allways had crt's but i want to move on and get a lcd,I do play games but i watch a lot more films,Ive been reading lots of discussions on here with different monitors,Im just not sure what one would be better for my geforce 8800GTS Dell ST2410 or the Samsung P2450H .
What "24" goes well with a nvidia geforce 8800GTS,For £200 ish
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Is that a GTS 512 or one of the older ones? Not that it really matters - I'd recommend you have a look at the BenQ G2420HDBL and V2410 Eco. They are supposed to be excellent monitors for the price and include LED backlighting. You may also want to wait until April, because ViewSonic have a new 24" monitor or two that they're releasing.
Hi
The card is a BFG Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS OC 320MB DDR Dual
I have a look at those two screens you mentioned
Thanks
I wouldn't recommend a 24" monitor with the amount of memory on the video card. I had the 8800GTS years ago and was only just sufficient for a 22" running 1600x1050.
You'll struggle to render the native 24" TFT resolutions of 1920x1200 or 1920x1080 on modern games with 320MB memory, it will will be fine for web surfing/office.
I think its better for you to upgrade your video card than a new monitor due to the resolution.
Hard and a rock place if you intend to stick with Nvidia 
If you're monitor's dying and you definitely want to get a 24", then any games you play would need to be a low or very low settings when using 320MB 8800 GTS. It may be fine for you for the time being .... Counter-Strike : Source is OK at that resolution and low settings but games like Battlefield: Bad Company 2 & Crysis will struggle.
The BenQ people have recomeended seems to be a good fit for a 24"
Other alternatives are to go with a cheaper 22" at 1680x1050 which isn't bad at all.
If you're monitor's dying and you definitely want to get a 24", then any games you play would need to be a low or very low settings when using 320MB 8800 GTS. It may be fine for you for the time being .... Counter-Strike : Source is OK at that resolution and low settings but games like Battlefield: Bad Company 2 & Crysis will struggle.
The BenQ people have recomeended seems to be a good fit for a 24"
Other alternatives are to go with a cheaper 22" at 1680x1050 which isn't bad at all.
Just look at your maximum resolution on the card. Anything above 1920 x 1080 and you will be able to use a 24" at native resolution for most things. I believe that for films and office tasks the ability of the CPU and disk subsystem will be just as important and an 8800 with 320Mb is adequate for the task.
You can always run high end games at a lesser resolution equivalent to a 22" display or less. I would invest in the screen you want now then change the graphics if you feel it necessary later.
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The output resolution doesn't make much difference once you get to this sort of memory scale. 1920x1080 at 32 bits per pixel is ~8Mb, so even if an app/game/what-ever is triple-buffering the memory used by the frame buffers will only be ~24Mb.The extra memory will be used for thing like higher resolution textures (improving some visuals) or just being able to hold more texture data on the card saving trips to and from main memory (improving speed when moving between areas that might need different textures)
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1920 x 1080 x 32 = bits /8 = 8294400bytes /1024 = 8100kbytes /1024 = 7.91Mbytes
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As the above poster said, you should be ok for 24" using your 320MB video card if its for web browsing and movies. Gaming is going to struggle though due to the amount of textures it needs to swapout for the resolution.
Cheers for that info,Made me understand it a bit better
Cheers again i might also get a faster cpu thats if the still do socket 939.