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If your 42" maxes out at 1920x1080 it must be a TV that you're using as a monitor, or you don't have the resolution up all the way. The extra 120 lines on your 24" is because it's 16:10 vs 16:9. And any 50" 720p you buy is going to be a TV(unless it's a really old monitor), nobody buys an actual monitor that size that doesn't support high resolutions. When you get monitors that large you look for 2560x1600 resolution (higher pixel density, clearer picture), otherwise you're wasting your money.Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace. -- James Madison
The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms. -- Samuel Adams, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87 (Pearce and Hale, eds., Boston, 1850)Comment
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Those questions were ALL rhetorical, in response to your statement " A 24" monitor always has a higher resolution than say a 20.5". ", which is just not true. The point I was making was that larger diagonal size does NOT automatically equal larger resolution. I know plenty about which monitors I'm using, what they are, and why I'm using them.Last edited by Demonicspire; 04-28-2012, 6:12 AM.Comment
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GOOD for you for sticking with XP pro! Too bad it is 64bit but I am gonna guess that the 64bit will allow you to see the higher RAM count...
Personally speaking I would pick a flavor of XP Pro 32bit and drop the SSD to a 60 or 64gb drive if it is gonna stick as a C: for windows only. I would drop the RAM down to 2-4GB instead and get an EVGA brand GTX 560 card. But that is me and I know that XP pro still works and works well if you build around it.
As far as CPU Damn I forgot what they have out there but last I checked (about a month ago) I found a good Phenom 6core cpu which is an AM3 or AM3+ or something. Go to Directron.com and have a look at what they got for mobo + CPU combos. Stay away from Tiger. They will screw you over in the rebate department... BTW, Tiger bought out COMPUSA if I remember correctly.
OR you could just get a mac, and then 3 days later jump out a 5th story window...7 Billion people on the planet. They aint ALL gonna astronauts. Some will get hit by trains...
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Dude...
Sticking with XP pro 32 bit means you're limiting the amount of RAM you can use, no TRIM support for SSDs(so you'll have to rely on the internal garbage collection, and see performance go down the toilet), you're recommending someone install an OS that driver support is starting to go by the way-side for...
Why? That's like telling someone to drive a 1970's Honda CVCC for better fuel economy and ignoring everything else.
JDay, you are completely wrong about monitor resolution. The diagonal display size has absolutely NOTHING to do with the resolution of the display. The 4.3" LCD on my cellphone is 720p, the same resolution you find on 50" LCD panels. A 23" 1920x1080 LCD is the same resolution as a 27" 1920x1080 LCD. Pixel size and dot pitch can be issues when you have larger displays running the same resolution as a smaller display.
These are 2 Acer brand monitors, both 1920x1080, both 60hz, both LED backlit, and the same resolution.
Now if you were simply stating that a 23" monitor at 1920x1080 had a higher pixel density, you would be correct. However the resolution of both displays is identical. Because of that, any videocard will perform the same with either monitor, since the videocard itself is still rendering 1920x1080 and is not affected by display size.
Your comment about 1920x1080 displays being 32" or larger makes even less sense, because 1920x1080 on a 32" monitor is ridiculously low(due to the pixel density). When you get above 27" or so for computer monitors, the image at 1920x1080 looks like a blocky mess and you need to start looking at 2560x1600 or higher resolution panels.Comment
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Thank you for backing me up, I was beginning to think I'd gone crazy or something. And yes, seriously go for 64 bit, it is a better architecture. You will want more than the 2 GB of RAM it lets you have.Dude...
Sticking with XP pro 32 bit means you're limiting the amount of RAM you can use, no TRIM support for SSDs(so you'll have to rely on the internal garbage collection, and see performance go down the toilet), you're recommending someone install an OS that driver support is starting to go by the way-side for...
Why? That's like telling someone to drive a 1970's Honda CVCC for better fuel economy and ignoring everything else.
JDay, you are completely wrong about monitor resolution. The diagonal display size has absolutely NOTHING to do with the resolution of the display. The 4.3" LCD on my cellphone is 720p, the same resolution you find on 50" LCD panels. A 23" 1920x1080 LCD is the same resolution as a 27" 1920x1080 LCD. Pixel size and dot pitch can be issues when you have larger displays running the same resolution as a smaller display.
These are 2 Acer brand monitors, both 1920x1080, both 60hz, both LED backlit, and the same resolution.
Now if you were simply stating that a 23" monitor at 1920x1080 had a higher pixel density, you would be correct. However the resolution of both displays is identical. Because of that, any videocard will perform the same with either monitor, since the videocard itself is still rendering 1920x1080 and is not affected by display size.
Your comment about 1920x1080 displays being 32" or larger makes even less sense, because 1920x1080 on a 32" monitor is ridiculously low(due to the pixel density). When you get above 27" or so for computer monitors, the image at 1920x1080 looks like a blocky mess and you need to start looking at 2560x1600 or higher resolution panels.Comment
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