Ideal gaming res?

umboma · 28 Mar 2012 at 18:36

a lot of monitors have 1080p res screens if you was not to be plugging in your xbox/ps3, and your not botherd by movies.

What is the ideal res for pc gaming?

d_brennen · 28 Mar 2012 at 18:56

5760x1200

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Woden · 28 Mar 2012 at 18:58

IamMed · 28 Mar 2012 at 19:17

Depends on size of monitor and how good your eyesight is at the distance you'll be sitting

ilovetechno · 28 Mar 2012 at 19:18

umboma said:
a lot of monitors have 1080p res screens if you was not to be plugging in your xbox/ps3, and your not botherd by movies.

What is the ideal res for pc gaming?

imo bigger the better , but thats not such thing as ideal, just the one that you feel most confortable using. I just moved from 1680x1050 to 1920x1080p and looks a lot more sharper for games specially on 120hz monitor.

ThePengu1n · 28 Mar 2012 at 19:39

Bigger=better so Dell 30" it is

2560x1600

beejjacobs · 28 Mar 2012 at 19:52

ThePengu1n said:
Bigger=better so Dell 30" it is 2560x1600

Why just one

bigger => better
more => better

TAC4U · 28 Mar 2012 at 21:35

Obviously the higher the better. I'm not really a big fan of multi-monitor setups, so I opted for a 30" 2560x1600 display - it's a major improvement over the 24" monitor I had before. But obviously the higher the resolution the more beefy the hardware you need in order to keep up, so 1920x1200 is probably the best compromise at the moment.

Razargh · 28 Mar 2012 at 21:46

Multi-monitor was nice for about a month then I kept asking why did i pay for 2 extra screens if i dont look at them? (Unless doing work etc when the more the merrier.) I think a large single screen or 2 screens one for gaming the other for well whatever?

Kamwah · 28 Mar 2012 at 21:48

Depends how desensitized you are to the porn. Therefore just have the right number of monitors per video.

beejjacobs · 28 Mar 2012 at 22:16

Razargh said:
Multi-monitor was nice for about a month then I kept asking why did i pay for 2 extra screens if i dont look at them? (Unless doing work etc when the more the merrier.) I think a large single screen or 2 screens one for gaming the other for well whatever?

I actually agree, despite what I said earlier

That being said I've not tried 3 screens but I like having one big/main/focus screen and then a secondary for little things

Razargh · 28 Mar 2012 at 22:35

Honestly when I got my screens I was like "OMG OMG OMG I CAN PLAY EVERYTHING IN EYEFINITY" 5 months later "I'll set this to 1920x1080 as this bloody fisheye makes me want to kill myself"

If you go down the route of multi-monitor then my advice is get 3 decent monitors or 3 TV's 32" + as that is badass.

TV's are cool

matt1 · 29 Mar 2012 at 15:41

I think it depends on the game.

My dad plays strategy games on his 30" dell and loves it. I've played BF3 on it and find it a bit too big, probably because I'm sat too close. Moving to a 24" my score skyrocketed.

Everyones different. If you position a 30" far enough away and have the beef to power it then why not but I'm going to stick with 24" for now.

brit~XR · 29 Mar 2012 at 19:25

matt1 said:
I think it depends on the game.

My dad plays strategy games on his 30" dell and loves it. I've played BF3 on it and find it a bit too big, probably because I'm sat too close. Moving to a 24" my score skyrocketed.

Everyones different. If you position a 30" far enough away and have the beef to power it then why not but I'm going to stick with 24" for now.

+1

I downgraded from a dell 30 to a 27 16:9 because i found it to big on games like bf3. I had the space on my desk to put the monitor further away but then it didnt fill right being so far away