GAMING SCREENS !!!!!!

What is better for gaming on my Compaq R3000T, a (1280x800) screen,
a (1680x1050) or a (1920x1200) or the bright veiw screen, for gaming ?
PLease Tell Me
THANX
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When someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles to frown about it but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and punch the crap out of them

 

I have been using the 1280x800 wxga screen and like it a lot for the monitor size and it allows me to turn pretty much all the settings up to full.

zx5000 :: 2.4M :: 512 DDR :: 40gb 4200 RPM HD :: 15.4" :: Radeon 9600 Mobilty M10 :: Aquamark3 22,856

 

Heres what I think, the higher the resolution the better your games will look but....Even though the Radeon 9600 is a pretty good graphics card for now, in the future it will be less useful and will have to run games at lower resolutions anyway like 1280X800. Also I did have one with the 1680X1050 screen and it was nice but for normal window's use everything was to small! I used the large Icons and larger fonts but it still not enough to make up for how tiny everything was. I have a normal 1280X800 screen and I really like it a lot! I haven't seen the brightview but from what I've read and because the compaq version is on 25$ more I would suggest that.

Compaq R3000T (CTO)
P4 Desktop 3.0GHz w/HT
1 X 512MB RAM
Radeon 9600 128MB
60GB 5,400 RPM HD
No mods/overclocking: GPU: 310MHz, Memory: 190MHz
AquaMark: 19,796
PCMark04: 3955
3DMark03: 2508
Over clocked GPU: 378MHz, Memory: 256.5
Aquamark3: 24,257
3DMark03: 3,115

 

Is The 1680X1050 screen any good, is all the stuff really that small on it, please tell me because Im buying the compaq R3000T today and need advice !!!!

When someone annoys you it takes 42 muscles to frown about it but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and punch the crap out of them

 

for me the screen was way to small. I used the window's setting to enlarge things and the internet exploer to enlarger test but only some internet text can be enlarged the rest stays small. For gaming and normal use I suggest the 1280X800 brightview.

Compaq R3000T (CTO)
P4 Desktop 3.0GHz w/HT
1 X 512MB RAM
Radeon 9600 128MB
60GB 5,400 RPM HD
No mods/overclocking: GPU: 310MHz, Memory: 190MHz
AquaMark: 19,796
PCMark04: 3955
3DMark03: 2508
Over clocked GPU: 378MHz, Memory: 256.5
Aquamark3: 24,257
3DMark03: 3,115

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by DaGreek

 

well don't worry if its not what you need screen wise you can return it for free the first 30 days just like I did. Also I do a lot of reading online! So small letters are a bit of a problem for me with the higher resolutions. One part that stinks is all the extra pixel's you have for DVD won't really matter because DVD's don't use such high resolution [V]

Compaq R3000T (CTO)
P4 Desktop 3.0GHz w/HT
1 X 512MB RAM
Radeon 9600 128MB
60GB 5,400 RPM HD
No mods/overclocking: GPU: 310MHz, Memory: 190MHz
AquaMark: 19,796
PCMark04: 3955
3DMark03: 2508
Over clocked GPU: 378MHz, Memory: 256.5
Aquamark3: 24,257
3DMark03: 3,115

 

Mmmkay, this thread bugged me enough to go spend half my day going to stores. I bought the 1680x1050 on a zx5000 last night. So I went to CompUSA. They had 1280 with and without brightview; I was very suprised... the brightview makes a huge difference. There is a little more reflection and glare, but the clarity and brightness totally negate that. If you want 1280x800, the brightview option is worth every penny.

As for the 15.4" 1680x1050, I went to CompUSA, Best Buy and Office Depot... I couldn't find it anywhere. Finally I went to Circuit City and they didn't have it... I was discouraged and ready to go, when I noticed one HP 15.4" that was labeled WXGA and looked really blurry, so I checked the res and sure enough it was the elusive 1680x1050. At first it was so small, I was tempted to run home and cancel and spring for the zd7000 with 17". But that would end up cost too much and trying to lug that beast to school everyday would not be fun.

So I'm really worried about this 1680 not being good because I'm going to be looking at it all the time. So I sat in Circuit City for about 30 minutes just doing various things on the laptop. Reading text, watching a dvd, etc. I had mixed feelings... everything was really small, but at the same time... I really need the space. I program so I usually need many windows open, like references, browsers, and an IDE open all at once. So I went into the video options and continued to tweak the color, contrast, brightness, and digital vibrance (this notebook had a geforce, digital vibrance is an nvidia thing). Once all the tweaking was done and I spent a little more time with it, things started to become more clear and my eyes adjusted to the size. The only thing I'm slightly upset about is that geforce wasnt an option on the zx5000 because I generally can get better PQ on an LCD from geforce cards, especially thanks to the digital vibrance option.

So about your [SupraSkylineSTI] question, I believe for gaming... the 1680x1050 is a huge nono. First of all, everything will always look better at native resolution... in fact from what I saw in the stores... they look like utter crap out of their native resolutions. And to get decent frame rates with some of the quality options up on newer games, like Doom 3, your almost certainly going to have to lower the res from 1680x1050 to something more like 1280x800 which would be native on the 1280x800 brightview. Also with dark scenes in games, the clarity of brightview will make a huge difference. So... unless your like me, and you reallly need the extra desktop space... go with 1280x800 brightview.

One more thing to consider... for non gamers... getting the 1680x1050 with the 128mb radeon is an awesome plan for future readyness for 2 reasons. Longhorn will come out in a couple years or so and the p4 3.0ghz or higher will still be a very great desktop cpu... maybe gaming not so much, but for just about anything else it will still be great. Longhorn's gui will be built from ground up with high resolution displays in mind. All of the parts of the GUI will scale properly so that you can run at 1680x1050, and still have everything the size of how it would be if you were in 1280x800 which means you everything will look super sharp and not small. (Actually, if you run Linux, it can already do this.) As for the 128mb radeon option... that is Microsoft's recommened amount of video memory to run the most graphical (OSX like) Longhorn desktop called Aero Glass. You can read about that here http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/display/graphics-reqs.mspx

Hope that helps everyone.

 

step-dad--

Like DaGreek says--don't worry until you see it!

My laptop screen is 1280 x 800 and I love it--but my husband's laptop has a 1920 x 1200 screen and he loves it. He wouldn't be happy with mine, and his would drive me crazy! It really is a matter of personal preference. The 1680 x 1050 might just be the perfect screen for you...

Happy computing!
dordale [ ]

 

Just want to make sure.
Is the LCD with XBRIGHT easier to be stratched or damaged compared to a regular LCD?

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I really wanna buy a zx5000...

 

<blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by paperback