How important is it to run a **widescreen** TFT at it's Native Resolution?

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I plan to buy my brother a LCD monitor for his birthday in January and was looking at a widescreen 19" LCD which runs at 1440 x 900. His graphics card is a Geforce 6 series card so won't run all his games at that res - therefore I wanted to know if he can get away with running games at other resolutions???

I ask because I have a 19" LCD monitor (not widescreen) and I find some games look really nasty unless if I run the resolution at 1280 x 1024 (which is the monitors native res). I've heard you can get away with this more with a 17" LCD as these also run at 1280x1024 so the pixels are smaller diminishing the effect.
 
clv101 said:
He could keep his old monitor and run dual screens. That's what I do with my old 21" CRT and new 20" widescreen TFT. Best of both worlds.

That is not an option i'm afraid ;) It's a 15" CRT we purchased in 1998 and the picture on it is going purple :)
 
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