1920x1200 vs 1680x1050 gaming?

I've just recently ordered a gaming laptop that'll be coming in a few days the specs:

17" WUXGA
INTEL CORE 2 DUO T7700 2.4GHZ processor
NVIDIA 8800M GTX 512MB GRAPHICS
2GB DDR2 ram
250GB SATA HDD
Windows XP 32bit

I'll be playing games like world in conflict, bioshock, rainbow 6 vegas 2, gears of war and most of the up and coming games. I prefer performance over visual so i'd like to keep above 35 FPS minimum, do you think this FPS is possible at 1920x1200 with medium settings or would it be better to go for 1680x1050 with slightly higher settings?

Any suggestions and personal preferences are much appreciated, thanks.

 

To me, I'd rather have as many settings raised as possible, and don't mind playing at a lower resolution, even 1280x800. Even on my desktop PC, even though I have the power, will frequently drop the resolution to get all the visuals and decent framerate. The way textures are done these days, games seem to look great at lower resolutions anyhow. I think a large part of that is due to the fact that they are designed for consoles with 720p resolution.

 

I personally like the highest resolution possible over effects. you can have all the effects you want, but I think low res games look like they were being played on a Xbox/PS2

 

1680x1050 is large enough for Gaming in my oppinion.

 

I personally prefer the higher resolution, because everything looks fuzzy if you turn the resolution down, and I'd rather just select textures look of a little lower quality than the whole thing look bad, including the UI.

 

One thing to keep in mind is that at higher res, many games look better without some effects (especially things like AA) than games at lower res with those effects on. If you have the hardware to handle high res, I'd go for it.

 

1920x1200 is gonna stress that card out alot, why not just get 1920x1200 and if it doesnt run great just set the game to play in 1680x1050, that way when you play a game that isnt too demanding you can just play in 1920x1200, best of both resolutions lol

edit: nice laptop btw, will be alot of fun..im guessing m17x, or an xps

 

1920x1200 for me...

But then again, my hardware barely shows any stressing with 16x AA and AF*.

* except for crysis..

 

Personally, a resolution like 1440x900 or 1680x1050 is perfectly satisfying and crisp enough for me. I'm not going to use 1920x1200 until that is the norm for low/midrange hardware.

 

No way would I ever play at 1920x1200 on a laptop. My eyes can't take the size of text at that resolution anyway. I don't want to go blind.

1680x1050 is the way to go for a 17 inch unless you REALLY need to watch HD content at 1080p or you have fantastic eyesight.

 

My eysight is anything but fantastic. If I used my laptop display at desktop distance, text might be a problem, but given that I am so much closer to the screen, I find no problem at all.

 

Correct me if Im wrong, but isnt resolution higher then 1680x1050 on a screen 35" or smaller a waste of processor dedication? Im pretty certain that the human eye cannot see a difference in the lines of resolution on a screen that small.

 

I think that depends on how close you are in relation to the screen. I can pick out pixels if I sit close enough to my 1440x900...so I assume a 1920x1080 would be pretty ideal for pixel density. But yeah, I like to sit far back so 1440x900 is good for me.

 

i'll probably go for 1680 by 1050 i reckon.

On my desktop i have a 19" LCD and that's 1280x1024, and the quality is really good there. So 1050 > 1024 so i still think quality will be good. Means i can apply more eye candy as well