Hooking up 23 inch monitor to laptop for gaming?

[Remobz]

Hey guys,

I sold my OLD desktop over 6 months ago. I have no desktops now but my 23 inch monitor is doing nothing and collection dust now.

This is my monitor that is collecting dust now. Asus PA238q

http://www.amazon.com/Asus-PA238Q-23-Inch-Professional-Super-IPS/dp/B005HIRG52


I currently game (heroes and generals MP) on this laptop Acer Aspire V3-572G-54S6 but the resolution is not the best and the screen is crappy compared to the Asus 23 inch IPS panel.

Current gaming laptop --->

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Aspire-V3-572G-54S6-Gaming-Laptop/dp/B00MM2WA8O


The laptop has a Nvidia 840M graphics card.


Questions

1) Does it make sense to hook up the laptop to the 23 inch monitor to game considering the graphics card.

2) Should I hook it up using HDMI cable or VGA cable?

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[fralexandr]

1) depends on what games you play. It will be nice when doing web browsing/work/emails though.
2) HDMI > VGA. VGA will probably work, but might have some issues.

expect the game to run at half the FPS when going from 1366x768 -> 1920x1080, given the same settings.

the 840m is a rather low end GPU and can't push 1080p in any modern/graphically demanding games at acceptable frame rates.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-840M.105681.0.html

 

[xgsound]

All you need is a cable to try it. If it is not immediately satisfactory frame speed or quality, you could try lesser resolutions to see which gives the best combined result.

Jim

 

[corkyg]

All you need is a cable to try it. If it is not immediately satisfactory frame speed or quality, you could try lesser resolutions to see which gives the best combined result. Jim

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