The Official Graphics Card and PC gaming Thread

That's what I like to hear. Looks like I can count on spending 330USD at least. Man it sucks being near broke! Tax return time is coming though Perhaps my car can survive that long. I have a feeling something in the transmission is about to fail, big time!

Anybody wanna buy my car? LOL!!!

 

330USD...
I paid £640 for mine ($1040)

 

You must have bought when it was near cutting edge though eh?

I'm looking at a refurbished one on amazon for about 330. Very tempting. It would be my luck though to purchase it, and right when I hook it up, my car fails. I swear somebody upstairs is laughing at me LOL! Nah...

 

Mine was $600 and yes totally worth it. Fantastic image quality and viewing angles

 

You guys have totally convinced me. It's tempting to go near broke just to have the bad boy! Obviously I would love the 30" dell more. But as I've said, that's a very expensive resolution. Just to run agreeable games at 30+FPS I would need to spend upwards of 400$ on the GPU's. I can be happy with dual 24" monitors. Most people would be jealous of a single 24" let alone 2 My poor brother has a single 17" Dell with a max resolution of 1024 x 768. I could never be happy with that!

 

the max res for a 17inch display is 1440x900.

 

His is only 1024 x 768. I've looked. Pretty sure drivers are relatively up to date too...

 

wow that is shitty,not even worth the space on the desk.

 

1280x1024 on a 17" I expect. 1024x768 only on that size is very rare.
The 24" Dells are very nice though, despite not being S-IPS, there's really very little to distinguish them from the 30" monitors, apart from perhaps the colour gamut of the newer panel (which newer 24" models like the U2411 probably have).
You're definitely right about graphical demands. 2560x1600 is 78% more pixels than 1920x1200. What an HD4870 can do on a 24" it takes a 4870X2 or HD5870 to do on a 30". What an HD5850 can do on a 24" it takes an HD5970 to do on a 30", what a GTX260 can do on a 24" it takes a GTX295 to do on a 30". It's a tough resolution to run. But when you see it in action, you can't believe what you've been missing (I shouldn't be encouraging people! haha)

 

You're right, you shouldn't tempt me LOL! One day, that resolution may be widely used. And then you'll probably be running twice that resolution I saw a monitor on Dell's site going for 16,000+. Pretty insane!

 

16,000? What on earth?

 

Coronis HD Color 6 MP Diagnostic Display with MXRT-5200 PCIe card
3280 x 2048 There's an insane resolution. Though It seems like i've seen more.

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Diagnostic displays like that have been around for ages, though that's about as reasonable as I've yet seen them, they're usually $30k plus. Didn't realise Dell made any. Problem is they're often 30Hz or 15Hz refresh rate as they're designed for static images.

 

Only widescreen. And only for desktops. Laptop 17" monitors are typically 1920x1080 or 1920x1200. Standard aspect 17" monitors go to 1280x1024. Occasionally 1400x1050 but it's rare at 17".

 

GTX470 £165. very tempting, and i want an upgrade for black ops, but damn, do i wait for the 69 sereis/ 570?

 

Just wait for HD6870 stock levels to stabilise and prices to come back down. The HD6870 came out at £175 here if you got one in the first batch, and the HD6870 is generally faster than the GTX470, not to mention only 150W instead of the GTX470's 225.

 

That's one of the reasons I'll be getting 2 24" monitors for my next monitor upgrade instead of a 30". Although it is quite likely the resolution will be higher than 1920x1080 by the time I can justify spending that kind of money on a monitor.....

 

1920x1080 monitors are cheap, it's the 1920x1200 ones that are expensive.

 

My Samsung was 300$ when I bought it. I think it was worth it. And since the Dell is no doubt significantly better, it will DEFINITELY be worth it

 

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