x1950pro at 1920x1200?

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camelass

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I'm in the market for another monitor. I have my mind set on a 24" monitor and while this is a big step up from my 19" 4:3 lcd monitor I'm a bit concerned if my video card would be able to handle "acceptable" frame rates for gaming. (20fps or higher) Currently I'm running the following.

E4500 at stock
4CoreDual-SATA2 (this motherboard sucks for overclocking)
AGP Sapphire x1950 pro 512MB
2GB DDRII 667
Windows XP SP2

I'd really hate to spend more money on this system so a new video card is most likely out of the question unless someone can give a compelling reason why I should drop more money into this thing. This system was a stop gap upgrade from my P4 2.8b system until Nehalem comes out.

I run COD 4 at 1280x1024 with all settings maxed out around 30-50fps outdoors and I have seen frame rates go as high as 70-80fps indoors. I have been trying to find some benches on my card at 1920x1200 with some of the current games but I have yet to come across anything useful. If 1920x1200 would cripple my card ill just hold off on the monitor until I build a new system.
 
camelass said:
I'm in the market for another monitor. I have my mind set on a 24" monitor and while this is a big step up from my 19" 4:3 lcd monitor I'm a bit concerned if my video card would be able to handle "acceptable" frame rates for gaming. (20fps or higher) Currently I'm running the following.

E4500 at stock
4CoreDual-SATA2 (this motherboard sucks for overclocking)
AGP Sapphire x1950 pro 512MB
2GB DDRII 667
Windows XP SP2

I'd really hate to spend more money on this system so a new video card is most likely out of the question unless someone can give a compelling reason why I should drop more money into this thing. This system was a stop gap upgrade from my P4 2.8b system until Nehalem comes out.

I run COD 4 at 1280x1024 with all settings maxed out around 30-50fps outdoors and I have seen frame rates go as high as 70-80fps indoors. I have been trying to find some benches on my card at 1920x1200 with some of the current games but I have yet to come across anything useful. If 1920x1200 would cripple my card ill just hold off on the monitor until I build a new system.
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You can buy 9600 GT or 8800 GTS 320 MB on NewEgg for $110-115. They should be fine for that res. I had an x1950 pro...i'm not too sure you'll be happy with it at that resolution.
 
You don't need to run max 1920 x 1200 res for COD4 to look good. You can do 1440 x 900 res with AA and AF enabled with decent framerates. I play Crysis and Stalker at 1440 x 900res on my 1920 x 1200 lcd and it looks good still. I have an 8800GT card and COD4 I play that at 1680 x 1050 in Vista. I even had it at 1440 x 900 res with AA/AF enabled just to see how it looks and it looks good. Eventually, you will upgrade your video card and when you do, you will be able to up the resolution higher. Something to look forward to down the road when you do have a more powerful card. The monitor will be ready. One things for sure, you will most likely get a 24" lcd anyways. Heck I was playing COD4 on my 24" Gateway with a ATI X1650Pro which is slower than your X1950Pro at 1280 x 800 res and it looked good. Anything below 1280 x 800 res you can tell a difference in sharpness and image quality. If you do 1280 x 800 res minimum, it looks good.
 
Yeah I wasn't sure how it would look at a lower res. Thanks for the info. I may just get the monitor ;D
 
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