Going To A 22" LCD - Video Performance Loss Expected ?

Greetings -

I currently have a 20" old school monitor. I am on the cusp of upgrading to a 22" LCD monitor. I am looking at an Acer 22" LCD. I know Acer is not exactly the lead dog in the pack, but the model I am looking at seems to be getting pretty good reviews and does not seem to staring at too many of the other dog's butts in the front. I am not a cutting edge gamer anyway.

My current setup is a modest AMD dual core 5600, 2 gigs of ram, and an 8800GT video card. I run most games at 1024 by 768, and this setup handles most things very well. My concern is over resolutions, I know the video will be pushing more pixels, and I was wondering the difference would be considerably noticeable.

Thanks for any help.

 

When I changed from a CRT to a 22" LCD monitor, the performance drop was noticeable for games. You would be going from 1024 x 768 to 1680 x 1050. I think it is worth it.

 

the 8800gt handles it fine. I run the same card and your other specs are ok too so go for it. Just because screen resolution is 1680 x 1050 you can still run games at 1024 x 768

 

You won't have any drama's with that. A lower end card would have issue's but that will be fine, you will see an increase in GPU temp if you run games on max resolution, but as long as it aint out of it's comfort zone and the fan don't sound like a jumbo jet you should be fine.

 

hi all im running an 8800gtx card in my aleinware now using an NEC 2690wuxi 26" at 1920x1200 played cod.5 great it uses a h.ips panel no slowing down and only two words to describe monitor one starts with a f&ends with g and others awesome the graphics of your tank in tank battle are out of this world. the 20" nec i think uses same type panel there slightly slower refresh 7/8m/s but far superior res/pixels. all 22" monitors use TN panels so most quite similar. asus&acer do seam good.LG ok which is phillips alot of other companys use LG panels anyway.have a look on some of the pc website or search about panels/dithering/res/refresh etc you will find some eye openers which will give you some great info regards buying monitors etc

 

Thanks for all of the replies guys. I ended up with a 22" LG monitor. Not sure of the response time offhand, maybe 4, 5, 7, or, thereabouts. I have been very happy so far. It is light years ahead of the old CRT monitors.

As for gaming, games look incredible. I don't max out resolution, as a result I max it up until there is not image clipping. Games still run great, with minimal performance loss, if any.

I paid $209 for the monitor. I was comfortable buying an LG as I already have a 50" LG plasma and I have been very happy with that for the last year.

Again, thanks for all the replies!

 

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