30" Dell

[jimbonkers]

What graphics card support the Dell 30"?

Do the current 7900s?

 

[Raikiri]

Any card with dual DVI so it should be fine, although if you want to play games at it's native res you will need SLi/crossfire

 

[Seft]

but playing games at 1280x800 won't be too bad

 

[Raikiri]

but playing games at 1280x800 won't be too bad

Will be with a native res of 2560x1600... go and try 640x480 on a 17/19inch LCD

 

[fullfat]

not running at native res's 99% of the time is horrendous

 

[Cyber-Mav]

yea no native rez = mashup.

 

[monkeypants]

But it has a 1:1 pixel ratio, which means it doesn't stretch the image, merely sticks a border around it filling the unused screen.

 

[hp7909]

Any graphics card with 400 MHz DACs (which, BTW, means all cards currently out) can output max 2048x1536 @ 85Hz Note: GFX's with Dual 400 MHz DACs can do above res. on each port (VGA/DVI)

EDIT:

You'll need a dual DVI output to support the native resolution of 2560 x 1600 and to even hope of having a half decent frame you'll need something like a 7800 GT SLI. This screen needs more than double the power needed to run a 1600 x 1200 resolution. However, image scaling is said to be very good on this screen, and so playing at lower resolutions can still keep a good level of image quality and sharpness.

 

[squiffy]

But it has a 1:1 pixel ratio, which means it doesn't stretch the image, merely sticks a border around it filling the unused screen.

Kinda waste to send 1600x1200 to that monitor just to have decent performance in games, just have huge amount of wasted space. Better to just buy a 24" instead. But if it's Windows can get away with a lesser card.

 

[monkeypants]

Kinda waste to send 1600x1200 to that monitor just to have decent performance in games, just have huge amount of wasted space. Better to just buy a 24" instead. But if it's Windows can get away with a lesser card.

I never said it was economical

 

[kdd]

Playing out of the native resolution of a tft isn't always bad, i didn't notice i was playing bf2 @ 1024x768 on my 1280x1024 samsung 930bf tft for about 3 months.

 

[Seft]

Will be with a native res of 2560x1600... go and try 640x480 on a 17/19inch LCD

on a 1280x960 lcd it would be ok.

4:1 pixel mapping isn't anywhere near as bad as anything else. The only real problem is much more noticable aliasing (but AA isn't too hard at lower resolutions). Try running 800x600 on a 1600x1200 screen. It's not as good as 1600x1200, but it's much better than 1024x768.