Running a monitor from a Laptop 7970M

[[YG]Bug-Eyed]

Hello All,

After a bit of advice! I have a 2 or 3 year old P170EM from OCUK with a 7970M card.

Question - what monitor can I physically run from this, and what is realistic for performance? I'm completely out of touch on PC tech at the moment and not sure of all the standards! Basically going to move laptop to desk and hook up to keyboards as well rather than buying a new system.

Back of laptop has DVI-I Dual Link / Display Port and HDMI (according to a web image I found!) - but is there different "sub standards" within those?

Any help appreciated! - thanks

ps - probably should have said I would like 34 super wide (for future proof for upgrade) but think that's unrealistic. So probably a 27 1440p like Dell 2715? I'm not into FPS or things like that any more, so quality of image over response time more important I think.

Cheers!

 

[andybird123]

a 7970m will struggle to run games at 1440 let alone super wide, even at 1080p it will struggle to run anything anywhere near max settings, but 1080p would be the highest I would bother going with that card

basically, whatever settings you are running now on that card, you will need to knock off about 40% of your frame rate if you go to 1440

 

[[YG]Bug-Eyed]

Thanks for the reply Andy. It's mainly turn based strategy, terraria, non action games I'll be playing.

The question really was what monitor could it physically connect too.

For example laptop is dvi-I but all monitors look to be Dvi-d now?

Also is display port a complete standard so any display port monitors should be ok?

Haven't bought a monitor in about 15 years so totally out of touch.

Cheers

 

[jonwhite]

Opps