Monitor Choice...

I just ordered a Dell E1705. I plan on using it to play some games, however I got the WUXGA screen. I am thinking now that I should get the WXGA screen after reading about native resolution. Is this correct? The WXGA resolution is 1440 x 900 vs the WUXGA 1900 x 1200

 

It is Ok you go with WUXGA, in game option you can choose lower resolution rather WUXGA as it's heavy playing game in such resolution.

 

Well the thing is, on a 17'', WUXGA is a great choice because it gives you a lot of room on the screen itself. The only thing is, because the res is so high, that many more pixels need to be rendered than 1440x900, so at that res, the games will chug a little more. The 7900 gs that you hopefully ordered with it can handle games at that resolution; it is a great graphics card. It might be pushed a little bit at that res at high settings, but you CAN always scale down.

I don't know how well dell screen scale, but it shouldn't look that bad. Now 1440x900, in gaming, should perform near to perfect with a 7900 gs. The only thing is, on a 17'', is that things will look pretty big, giving you less room.

Do you work with spreadsheets or like to have side by side windows? Then go for the WUXGA. Remember, you can always scale down. But if you don't want to risk a game looking slightly blurry, then go for the 1440x900 solution.

 

I read about the screen being blurry when lowering the resoulution. Is this a big or minor problem?

I did get the 7900GS, the 2 GHZ Core 2, and 2 GB of RAM. So I think it will be able to handle the gaming, I am just wondering if it will look real blurry and ****ed up looking. Are there any screen shots I can see?

 

I'm pretty sure it won't look too blurry. Try looking in the dell forums for an answer to it.

 

I will explain a few things:

Let's say you have a WUXGA screen and want to play Oblivion at 1280*800 (same ratio as 1920*1200 16:10 I mean). If you let Oblivion run at 1280*800 at fullscreen, it will look blurry indeed.

But there is also an option that centers the game in the middle of the screen. You will have no blurry things, but the image will be smaller.

Charlie

 

It's a minor problem, letting it scale from a smaller resolution to a higher one. Just make sure you enable the "Keep Aspect Ratio" (or whatever it is) when scaling. That makes all the blurriness difference. It stretches and looks like ass when you scale a "normal" res to widescreen, but it's really not too bad if you keep aspect or scale a smaller image to full screen.

The solution above also works, but it ends up in you not using all of your beautiful 17"