Sony G500 21", 9800pro gaming at 2048 x 1536

[Steelski]

Wondering what the people of Anandtech have to say about their experiences with this display.

I know i wont really be able to play games at 2048 x 1536/75 with my 9800PRO/XT 128MB but i was just wondering about the good and the bad of the monitor.
p.s. has anyone actually tried to game at this res or is it impossible with my card.
(not new games).
Also i would like to sell my television. does TV on a monitor look atrocious and what would people recomend for reception.

I will mostly be using it for photoshop(legal copy )

 

[EightySix Four]

doubt it'd work for games much for anything...

 

[BenSkywalker]

p.s. has anyone actually tried to game at this res or is it impossible with my card.
(not new games).

Works for older games pretty sweet actually. I'm not sure what refresh rate your monitor tops out at pusing that res but your card can handle 85Hz(2141 here).

Also i would like to sell my television. does TV on a monitor look atrocious and what would people recomend for reception.

Sit back and it looks pretty decent, if you are sitting close you will see the flaws of NTSC pretty easily though. I actually really like the TV Tuner on my All In Wonder- I've had good luck in general with ATi's TV tuner boards.

 

[Steelski]

I am not with NTSC. As i am in the UK i have PAL.
p.s the monitor refresh tops out at 75hz on 2048 x 1536 which is quite good.
I have to go and actually pick up the monitor as it weighs about 70 pounds i think. I am wondering weather to upgrade to a X1800XL wonder or not in the future. or maybee just a tv card for now.

 

[xtknight]

For TV on monitor, it can look worse because the monitor is progressive versus TVs which are interlaced (at least 90% of them). So it has to go through a digital algorithm whereas the "deinterlacing" (if you want to call it that) is inherent on the interlaced displays. Another reason is that monitors are almost always higher resolution than TVs. You can run it through a postprocessor with Graphedit. I had some fun with this and I got the TV to look great on 1280x1024, though CPU processing (on Athlon 64 3500+) was too intensive to run it full screen. I think about 720x480 worked great.

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: Steelski
I am not with NTSC. As i am in the UK i have PAL.
p.s the monitor refresh tops out at 75hz on 2048 x 1536 which is quite good.
I have to go and actually pick up the monitor as it weighs about 70 pounds i think. I am wondering weather to upgrade to a X1800XL wonder or not in the future. or maybee just a tv card for now.

Yeah, PAL (576/25Hz) is not much more resolution (and less refresh rate) than NTSC (525/29.97Hz) so you'll still see a lot of noise. Get a TV tuner for flexibility. Personally I have also had good luck with ATI TV tuners. My ATI TV Wonder USB 2.0 (Theater 2xx) looks great (for analog TV) on my 1280x1024 LCD, especially with postprocessing (though a good signal will suffice too). You'll probably want a PCI card though (ATI TV Wonder Elite/Theater 550!). Maybe the external USB ones are better shielded from noise, I'm not sure. My dad uses it sometimes for his laptop so that's why it's a USB. Also works great on my desktop PC though.

BTW, if you receive HDTV, you can view full 1920x1080 on your monitor in all its glory (well it may have to have black bars on the sides if the scaling is no good).