Gamingadvice on a 2407WFP

willthepirate · 19 Aug 2006 at 15:02

do games like WoW, css, cod2 etc... support the 1920x1200 pixels resolution?

and apart from sticking another gig of ram in my pc (making 2gb) and a athlon 3800+ x2 (from a 3000+) what sort of graphics card am i looking at to run these games on the thing, i have an x800 atm but i think it will have a heart attack if i plug this into it :S

iamgud · 19 Aug 2006 at 15:16

My 7900GTX and Opteron 170 2.6 runs my 2007 fine but bit is a big jump from 1680 x 1050 to 1920 x 1200.

I would get a X1900XTX or 7900GTX or even a 7950.

As for supporting those resolutions, css is good and so is WoW. Not sure about cod.

It is one reason I didn't get a 24" screen, I like playing at full graphics with my new PC and I would have to spend a lot on upgrades. 20" is the sweet spot for now.

willthepirate · 19 Aug 2006 at 15:25

i was just looking and decided on the 20" model since im not paying twice as much for an extra 4" of screen, might look at a 7900gtx something like that

fobose · 20 Aug 2006 at 10:04

I highly recommend the 2007WFP, I have two and they are great

Although 1680x1050 is a bit of an overkill for my 3 year old pc! CSS runs fine on my 6600gt aslong as I have no AA and turned stuff down to medium/low hehe

kinggost · 20 Aug 2006 at 10:58

After 1600x1200 you really need sli one did'nt run 1920x1200 for me so ive got 2 get the 7900gtx and a 20" monitor that will serve you lot better

fobose · 20 Aug 2006 at 11:07

Hmm I dont know about Sli, 2x the noise would be annoying

Although I have seen "MSI NVIDIA Fanless 7900GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-E" for £224.99 inc VAT. However that isn't really an option for most people, I would settle for one!

Andrew_McP · 20 Aug 2006 at 12:32

I'm inching (financially) towards a 2407 as well... although I get the impression an A03 version, if there ever is one, might be the one to buy judging by the mixed reactions to banding still around with the A02. Still, OC has a competitive price and the extra year on the warranty may help sway me. It's less than my first 17" monitor cost me over ten years ago after all!

Anyway, remember you don't *have* to run games at maximum res on this screen. The monitor will allow you to run in 4:3 modes as well (black bands either side), and even if 1600x1200 is a bit of a stretch for your graphics card, 1280x960/1024 should still look good on this display because there are plenty of pixels to play with to make the scaling look acceptable.

Obviously if gaming is your primary motivation with this monitor, you'll be looking at some *major* vid card horsepower instead of a compromise. But 1920x1600 pixels is a lot of work for a vid card or two.

Personally I want the monitor for desktop elbow room, and as long as I can run games in non-widescreen modes easily I'll be happy.

Andrew McP

PS My X800Pro flashed to XT-ish (500,550) runs many games very acceptably at 1600x1200, x2fsaa.

PPS I've been fairly unimpressed by a x3800 running at 2.5GHz. I know they're cheap now but those SD 3700s are even cheaper and seem to be hitting 2.7 without breaking into a sweat. For gaming, single core is still king, and will be for quite some time IMO. That'd give you more money to burn...er, invest on a vid card as well. :-)

kinggost · 20 Aug 2006 at 13:35

fobose said:
Hmm I dont know about Sli, 2x the noise would be annoying Although I have seen "MSI NVIDIA Fanless 7900GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-E" for £224.99 inc VAT. However that isn't really an option for most people, I would settle for one!

I kno my 7800 sounded like tornados so i cheated and watercooled them lol

Temps are lot better at load used to go up to 90oC now they not over 40oC at load

Psymonkee · 20 Aug 2006 at 13:38

Gaming on a 2407 is fine

1920*1200 - full detail on hitman blood money/hl2/Farcry all runs fine

Not tried many other games yet as I've been a little pre-occupied but I can post some screenies and fraps info for you if you want?

Running on an Opty [email protected] and a 7800GT

kinggost · 20 Aug 2006 at 13:55

Psymonkee said:
Gaming on a 2407 is fine

1920*1200 - full detail on hitman blood money/hl2/Farcry all runs fine

Not tried many other games yet as I've been a little pre-occupied but I can post some screenies and fraps info for you if you want?

Running on an Opty [email protected] and a 7800GT

Some games are really wel coded so they ok it just some like the new tomb raider that aint that wel coded so it takes an amazing system to run them.

Reality|Bites · 20 Aug 2006 at 15:47

Well I won't be buying the 2407 untill the next gen graphics cards are out anyway, so maybe the R600 or G80 will be able to handle them.

With my current Mobo I would have get SLI G80's though

Psymonkee · 20 Aug 2006 at 18:50

My current card handles it fine no probs - no reason not to get one tbh :>

Get it while it's cheap and then upgrade your gfx tbh