Yeh another monitor thread

[Surveyor]

I see where your comming from but would the fact that the lower resolution is 25% larger in size not count?

No it wouldn't.

There's no difference between running 1080p on a 22" monitor or a 50" TV.

The resolution is the same it's just the pixels are bigger which makes no difference to your graphics card.

 

[Doco]

Damn, I want to upgrade to a monitor over my 720p tv, but my FPS and overall quality is going to drop by a significant margin, going to have to bear with it for a wee while till I can get an alright gpu lol

 

[cmndr_andi]

Yea, if you are gaming a lot then I would certainly aim at upgrading the graphics card before the monitor. As if you do go for a 1200p monitor and stick with a HD 5670 graphics card then you will be forced to either revert back to your 720p TV to play games, run the Dell at a non-native resolution (it won't look great) or suffer through noticeably low framerates at native resolution.

For example if you look at this test of crysis warhead at 1920x1200, the HD 5670 pulls in at only 12.6FPS. In comparison the HD 5850 (which performs on the level of the newer £96 HD 6850) produces 32.7FPS in the same test.

 

[Surveyor]

Damn, I want to upgrade to a monitor over my 720p tv, but my FPS and overall quality is going to drop by a significant margin, going to have to bear with it for a wee while till I can get an alright gpu lol

A 720p TV probably has a resolution of 1366x768 so 1080p has very nearly double the number of pixels and 1200p nearly 120% more.

 

[Doco]

Yeh I get that now, under estimated the part resolution plays and vastly over estimated the part screen size played XD i'l have to do some mre research