30" to big for gaming ?

Depends how far away you sit. If you sit very close, you are probably better going for a smaller panel and saving some money or getting a better quality monitor.
 
When i went into OCuK last week they had a 30" Dell (iirc) running 3d mark. Personally it looked wayyy too big for gaming - and I was standing about 10ft away too :)
 
Yeah, if you're going to game with it, you might want to pick up a wireless keyboard/mouse and set yourself up a few metres away. That's almost on par with the average HTDV size.
 
personally i couldnt use a screen bigger than 24"
my eyes hurt as it is from gaming on a large screen and sitting close
 
yea and no, i some time loose my mouse pointer and need to shake the mouse till i see the pointer move on screen, but because of the types of games i play (mmo's and rts) i find the extra space on the screen more than offsets that
 
Unless you sat a few metres from the screen you would surely miss some of what was going on, and that far back you'd probably end up squinting at text.
I bet they're great for non-game usage though.
 
Personally i think its too big yes. If like has been said you sit a distance back to justify the size just buy a smaller monitor and sit a bit closer! 24" is enough IMHO.
 
30" - for me way too big for gaming - better for displaying info at distance (i.e. timetable displays)
 
The bigger the better as it's more immersive. I plan to use my Sony 32W4000 1080P set for my next PC build I currently game on it with Xbox 360 and PS3 from about 3 feet away with no issues at all.
 
I like mine for gaming but it a very personal choice, many complain about input lag ect. I don't notice any myself the only downside is needing a good system to run games at the native rez.
 
Definitely not imo, went for a 24'' myself and regret not waiting and saving up for a 28'' instead. Already got used to the 24'' and feels like a normal sized screen. When going back to a 17'' eg. on a lappy it feels tiny.
 
I think 24" is the sweet spot, I can sit the perfect distance from it so that it fills up my entire field of view without being in any way uncomfortable. If I were to go to 30" I'd probably end up having to move further back and see the same amount relative to my total field of view as I currently do.

Plus you'd end up needing an absolute beast of a rig to drive a 30" screen.
 
I went for a 22" WS from a 19" because I was concerned about this.

In some matches I've found myself getting totally absorbed and finding it hard to break away from the screen. Sort of a tunnel vision. I couldn't imagine keeping that focus with a much bigger screen really.
 
Once you spend a few hours adjusting to the initial size and use it for windows and gaming you don't really think about it.

I tend to find I don't move my head much when gaming.

It's a very personal thing. I get so lost in immersion of using a large monitor I totally switch off from the outside world.

But it not without it caveats though. For everyday windows usage you can run it from a 7800gt or ati equivalent any with a dual dvi-link. But for gaming this is where the costs lie.

I think many people do not realise on how much gpu processing power it takes to run games at native res. And that's before AA is applied. On average I find the majority of games take a 50% performance hit from running it at 1920x1200 to 2560x1600.

There are plenty of cards which run 1920x1200 games perfectly such as 4870, 280's etc. But step into 2560x1600 land and those cards will strain. you will have to sacrifice AA and eye candy settings before you can get semi decent framerates. And even then you are mainly dictated by how much Vram that card has.

When you game at 2560x1600 becuase it such a strain on video cards the minimum framerate become the most important criteria.

And contrary to much belief you still have to use AA at that high a res. Although admitedly it doesn't look as bad with games without AA running at lower res.

30 inch gaming is very poor value for money and the subsequent costs needed to drive it represents even poorer value for money. But if you can justify it and finance it then it truly immersive.

Having experienced a taste of it. I seriously doubt I could go back and if I did it would seriously play on my mind.


Some people like it and some don't.
 
Good post Redwings. This is why I am opting for a dual 20" monitor setup with my next upgrade. I want my PC to last me and if 3 years down the line I am struggling to get games running on a 24" plus monitor I will be gutted. I would rather have that extra monitor for when I am doing photo editing and stuff than have an extra 4" for gaming and then run into the kind of problems mentioned above. Just my personal opinion though.
 
Redwings post is spot on to be honest, except I would say that I personally haven't really noticed switching AA off in such high resolutions.
 
ScarySquirrel>Quite understandable where you are coming from. Funny enough I am using a 8800gt lent off a friend as my 280 died and needs to be RMA'ed.

I just lower the ingame res to say 1920x1200 and it not too bad.

Also consider the sweet spot in monitors these days is 24" 1920x1200 and I thnk you find more budget friendly cards ala 48701gb's and 260-216s will drive nearly the majority of games fine.

And with current PC games developement being console ports or at least there seems to a current trend there is not much really on the horizon that will strain these cards.

I would recommend not to rule out 24" monitor so quick as if things really do push the limits of the card then it is easy enough to drop the ingame res to 1680x1050 which is what your current 20" runs at or whatever you planning to upgrade to.

For windows usage and windows app besides a handful of apps it doesn't make a difference if you use a 7800gt or a tri 280 SLI unless you need cuda based apps. So if you are worried from that perspective you should be fine. Gaming at 1920x1200 is very doable and the results are very good just like a year to two years back 1680x1050 was the sweetspot and all cards released at the time mainly focused at games running at this res.

The one good thing about monitors no matter what size you go for is it developement is fairly constant in relation to other specific PC components like CPU's, GFX cards etc. It's very rare or not as common about reading posts from members who upgrade or change their monitor every 3 months although that's not to say there aren't any.

Whenever I decide to upgrade or build a new setup what bits and bobs I buy is focused mainly on what my monitor is and what I intend to do with it before making decisions. Basically my monitor is what I build my pc on. I doubt it is the right way to go about things but it the approach I seem to adopt most times when looking at hardware and researching them.

But good luck on your monitor decisons whatever you decide to go with.

Durzel>That's a very very nice card you have running your setup.
 
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