EggXpert

I was wondering which resolution scales the best for gaming? I have a 1600x1050 and it works great for me but I don't have many games. I need to buy a monitor for my gamer inlaw and was going to go with the same resolution if some games might not look right at 1920x1080. The pc will have the Radeon 4890 1GB card in it with an i7 920. But, he has older games he loves. So which resolution would be the best choice in this situation?

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It's personal preference more than anything..   Some people like to run at lower resolutions and have their edges smoothed/blurred with anti-aliasing and some people prefer to run at higher resolutions and not have the smoothing/blurring effect..  The Anti-aliasing smoothing can cause very thin lines in the distance to "break apart" into different segments making thin lines and thin wires look discontinuous or fragmented from running too much anti-aliasing (but they will look very smooth) and not enough resolution.. Running at a higher resolution, you will have more pixel samples of a thin line, but it will still look jaggy without anti-aliasing but it will be continuous.  Again, it's all personal preference, but I prefer high resolutions with 2X or 4X anti-aliasing than low resolutions at 8x or 16X CSAA/AdAA..  Of course, high resolutions are not always possible, some games simply don't let you crank the resolution up that high and monitors that support high resolutions are quite expensive.

For LCDs, you should always run at their native resolution.

I ordered 3 of these as I needed 2 for the outlaws and one for my wife. Looked like a deal.

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