Potential upgrade to a bigger screen

mogwai · 31 Oct 2008 at 08:10

My current rig specs are below, I am thinking of changing my current 21' screen and going up to a 24' screen. If I do that will I need a more powerful graphics card to allow games to run smoothly at 1900x1200?

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450
Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme
Asus P5Q Deluxe
8 Gb (4x2 Gb) Crucial Ballistix Tracer Red
BFG 8800 GTS OC 512M
Samsung F1 320 Gb x2 in RAID 0
500Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.11
Samsung SM-215 TW 21' LCD
BeQuite DarkPower Pro 650w
Vista Ultimate 64 bit

decrypt3r · 31 Oct 2008 at 08:25

might stress a bit on cod4 maxed out and obviously crysis

but depends on what games you play

mogwai · 31 Oct 2008 at 08:40

Mostly FPS games. Currently it is ok in Crysis with everything set to Very High at 1680x1050 with no AA.

reflux · 31 Oct 2008 at 10:40

A 4870 would work wonders at that resolution. Wouldn't allow you access to high levels of AA and AF but, but would allow you to run pretty much everything on High.