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22 inches or 24 inches? Also: Gaming Hardware
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I decided to get an LCD widescreen monitor. I have two choices.
22 inches - $350 (Australian!)
24 inches - $800 (Australian!)
Now, it seems pretty straightforward to get the 22 inch one, yeah? One thing the computer-store-guy told me makes it harder. Apparently HD is better optimized to 24 inches or higher, so I'll notice the difference more. Am I being lied to? A brief Google search yields no answers.
Second problem, my hardware. It works fine, but on Garrys Mod 10 it lags a little when I push my luck*. My specs:
2GB RAM
Nvidia (I'm fine with it) 7600GS Silent video card
4.2GHZ Dual Core processor
Where am I weak?
*the settings are as low as I'm prepared to lower them. By pushing my luck I meant when I pile in NPCs and props in by the dozen.
Any help appreciated.
22 inches - $350 (Australian!)
24 inches - $800 (Australian!)
Now, it seems pretty straightforward to get the 22 inch one, yeah? One thing the computer-store-guy told me makes it harder. Apparently HD is better optimized to 24 inches or higher, so I'll notice the difference more. Am I being lied to? A brief Google search yields no answers.
Second problem, my hardware. It works fine, but on Garrys Mod 10 it lags a little when I push my luck*. My specs:
2GB RAM
Nvidia (I'm fine with it) 7600GS Silent video card
4.2GHZ Dual Core processor
Where am I weak?
*the settings are as low as I'm prepared to lower them. By pushing my luck I meant when I pile in NPCs and props in by the dozen.
Any help appreciated.
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Your vid card or memory speed is your limiting factor. Your processor and amount of RAM is fine, of course.
And for that price difference you could get a 22" and a kick ass video card...
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Well, you know what I mean, right?
Computers are a whole other beast... With a computer a 22" monitor you can get 1650x1280, while a 1080P TV can hit what, 1920x1080.... And 720P is what, 1280x720P? And these resolutions carry up to a 50" TV, at 1920x1080, while a 22" monitor hits 1680x1280, a 24" should hit a much higher resolution, but at the same time games all perform differently at the actualy computer resolutions than TV resolutions....
I dunno... I make shit up on the fly and figure its accurate enough...
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It'll look nicer, but at that high a resolution you'll also need a powerful video card in order to get that sharp an image... On my machine here 22" monitor is the limit I have, if I had a 24" monitor and tried for higher resolutions I'd probably start seeing performance hits in games....
Like I said, I'd buy the 22" and spend the extra money on a kick ass video card...
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Ok guys I'll pick up a 22" LCD monitor and a video card. I'm a few weeks from buying that 24" and a few months until I can buy a video card to support it.
Thanks for the help. Truly appreciated.
most 20" lcds are 1680x1050 just like the 22" so with those extra inches you are getting larger pixels and not as sharp an image. The 20" panels also tend to be higher quality since basically every reasonably priced 22" is a TN (or lowest quality) lcd panel.
My advice.. dual 20" lcds or 1 24" for the money.
Check static-ice, that's what I used.
More impressive, sure, but typically "big" TVs go in big rooms. If you had a very high resolution 15" LCD, and you sat a foot closer, it would probably look as good as a 22" from further away.
One important thing to keep in mind is that technology is not even across all monitor sizes. For quite some time a few years ago, 17" monitors were the "sweet spot" because even though 19"+ cost a LOT more money, the contrast sucked and the resolutions were shit.
The other way to think about it is that you need very high resolution monitors with high quality displays to do computer work -- text display, fine mouse control, and so on. To watch a movie, you want a sharp, crisp display, but you don't need exceedingly high detail. So while you could plug a computer into a 42" LCD TV, you'd display everything at the highest "p" setting (since computers are inherently progressive). So you'd have 1280x720 on a 42" screen.
My 17" LCD on my computer is 1280 x 1024. That's higher resolution than the HD TV.
Seconded. Dual monitors is pretty amazing. I usually have Warcraft on my 20" widescreen with my media player and message windows on the 19" 3:4 beside it. Only wish they were both wide.
It's not a tonne more than a 22", maybe about half the 24" and it's huge fun!
I bought the dell 24" widescreen ($750) though and then added a 20.1" LG LCD for only $200
Dual monitors is the shit.
To the OP, whether or not the 24" monitor is worth it depends entirely on what you're plugging into it. If you're plugging an HD-capable console directly into the monitor, for example, then the 24" may be the best choice, if cost isn't a huge issue. If you're just going to be attaching your computer to the monitor (regardless of whether or not you're passing any console video feeds through your computer), then the 22" is probably fine for your needs.
As for the video card, I'm getting an nvidia geforce 8800 GTS with 320mb of ram. I'm told 640mb is a waste of money.
Typing this from my new 22" monitor, by the way.
GTX - $539.99, 600MHz, 768MB
GTS - $299.99, 580MHz, 320MB
GT - $289.99, 640MHz, 512MB
Now I'm sure someone who knows more about video cards is going to school me about how I should be comparing them using stream processors or the memory hertz or something. But the basic rule is that the GT is better and cheaper than the GTS, while also being a fraction of the price of the GTX with very similar performance.
So, if you can possibly switch to the GT, you should.
Guy is wrong.
www.msy.com.au
www.cpl.com.au
www.lmc.com.au
All have stores in Melbourne around the Box Hill area.
The three of them together should be able to net you an 8800GT for under 350 bucks (They change prices pretty much every half-week) and an excellent Chimei 22" for 295 bucks.
EDIT: Didn't see you already had the monitor there, need to learn to read!
I thought there were only the GTS 8800 and the GTX 8800.
I'll look into this, thanks.
Monitor refresh rate should be around 85hz. Latency should be <8ms.
I'm 5ms, which is good.
Edit: Apparently refresh rate is only to not flickering. As long as it doesn't flicker I'm good, right?
You can't play 1080p content on 22"s in the native resolution. the image how to be downscaled and lose quality.
thats why 24"s are so much more expensive.
also most are better panel types. nearly all 22"s are TN panels, which are the worst for visual quality.
you dont need ridiculously low response time. anything under 16 will likely be undetectable by you.
I'd go for a 20" non-tn panel if budget is tight, or a full proper 24". 22" give you nothing over 20" except hte ability to sit a bit further back. and using a TN panel, you might want to anyways :P
secondly, GT is not, by a rule, better than the GTS. if anything, the GTS on name alone should make it an improved product, and its forthcoming revision might place it back above the GT. But for the time being, the GT outperforms it, at a fraction of the price, so it is a killer buy.