- Oct 17, 2001
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So I'm looking to upgrade my PC and was curious about in which order I should upgrade. I do incremental upgrades rather than just buying a whole new system. I tried asking this question in General Hardware and they all got wrapped around the power supply I have. So, Here is the question again but in a different way.
If I replaced my 19" LCD with a 22" - 24" LCD, how good will it look running a non-native resolution of 1440 x 900?
The reason I ask is, I want to upgrade my LCD, CPU, and Vid card, but I can't get all 3 at once (my wife might notice and then I'm in the doghouse). So I will upgrade one at a time. My current vid card (4830) plays everything great at high settings at 1440 x 900. I'm betting it will not be able to do nearly as well at higher resolutions. So, If I get a larger screen now I will need to "cripple it" temporarily until I get the newer video card and CPU to remove the bottleneck I'm assuming they will create.
So, any opinions on temporarily running a larger monitor at lower than native resolution?
If I replaced my 19" LCD with a 22" - 24" LCD, how good will it look running a non-native resolution of 1440 x 900?
The reason I ask is, I want to upgrade my LCD, CPU, and Vid card, but I can't get all 3 at once (my wife might notice and then I'm in the doghouse). So I will upgrade one at a time. My current vid card (4830) plays everything great at high settings at 1440 x 900. I'm betting it will not be able to do nearly as well at higher resolutions. So, If I get a larger screen now I will need to "cripple it" temporarily until I get the newer video card and CPU to remove the bottleneck I'm assuming they will create.
So, any opinions on temporarily running a larger monitor at lower than native resolution?
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