Any point in getting a 27" monitor with my old laptop?

ropeladder

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I have a Dell Studio 1555 with an ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4570 and have my heart set on a nice hi-res 27" (2560x1440) monitor but it doesn't look like there are any that will work with my graphics card. The specs on the AMD page say that it can do 2560x1440 using displayport...which my laptop doesn't have. It only has an HDMI port, which it says goes up to 1920x1080 (I'm assuming it's HDMI version 1.2 since that's what the wikipedia specs say HDMI 1.2 can do), and a VGA port, which it says goes up to 2048x1536.

My question is, is there any chance I could get full resolution working on the monitor? Either by getting HDMI working somehow with newer drivers? (since the card specs make it look like it only supports HDMI 1.2) Or VGA somehow?
 

Morbus

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From my experience, if a card says it can only do a given resolution, you can't go higher than that. I tried it with an old FX5200, back in the day, and it wouldn't work even forcing the settings.

But that's just me talking.
 

Emulex

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yeah right around 2008 the displayport laptops all could push 2560x1600 (like the shared 256meg geforce 9400m). Might be time to upgrade !
 

blastingcap

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From my experience, if a card says it can only do a given resolution, you can't go higher than that. I tried it with an old FX5200, back in the day, and it wouldn't work even forcing the settings.

But that's just me talking.

I agree