Your Screen Resolution

[bi11i]

I'm doing what I can in optimizing the site, can you all punch in your resolution for me? If your isn't listed, please vote for the next one up.

Thanks,

[bi11i]

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[Peripat]

Might it be worthwhile telling our less tech-savvy users how to find this out? Well, I'll go through the steps for the Windows XP operating system, anyway. (Mac users, sorry, I can't help. Older versions of Windows will vary slightly from the following steps, but I don't remember how.)

Left-click "Start"

Left-click "Control panel"

Double left-click "Display" (on the top row of options, it's the little screen icon)

Of the little folder tabs that appear on the window, left-click "settings"

Under "screen resolutions" in blue, there will be a number (1024 x 768 seems to be the most common judging by the results so far) followed by the word "pixels"


...The number is what bi11i's interested in, here.


Cheers and stay safe!

[bi11i]

say, thanks. yes. (damn, I'm the ONLY one with the 1600x1200 display? No wonder I'm getting so many complaints...)

[Peripat]

say, thanks. yes. (damn, I'm the ONLY one with the 1600x1200 display? No wonder I'm getting so many complaints...)

Hey, opiates are expensive! ;)

I'm typing on a three-year-old laptop here (the only machine I have right now) and that's the highest resolution it'll do.

Now, if I borrowed my mother's computer or, better yet, one of dad's machines with the huge kickass screens, we might be talking...

[Perspect]

How many ":s do you need to have such a high resolution as 1600x1200? What'd be optimal for a 19"? I'm on a 17" right now but thinking of borrowing a newer one from a friend.

[bi11i]

My monitor is a 19" CRT, nothing fancy. I sit relatively close to it (like 2 inches away, yes?)

At 19" with a ATI Radeon 9600, it actually looks great. I went to buy a network switch over the weekend and stopped at Costco to check out their flatpanels. My god, what I wouldn't do. So beautiful, the windows look like they're made of liquid...

Something else not hard to do is to just install a second video adapter. Just find an old PCI adapter and then plug a second monitor into it. Two desktops (or one large one, anyway you like it.)

Anyone here tried a tri-monitor setup?

[Peripat]

My father (who works in the Computer Aided Design end of things) has a 22-inch and a 19-inch flatpanel screen setup. It looks way impressive.

[bi11i]

I was looking at digitalblasphemy.com at some of their tri-monitor setup wallpaper. (now to get the monitors.)

[bi11i]

thanks, everyone, who posted their vote.

[blackdog]

i can slide adjust/choose mine 1280by1024
1152by864
1024by768
800by600

ive kept it on 800by600 all this time ....any suggesstions anybody??:( :rolleyes: ;) :p :hangloose :party-smi :speechles :juggle: :music-smi :drinkit: :musik010:

[bi11i]

The biggest number that you can still read! At LEAST 1024x768, I can't imagine even trying to look at the forum at 800x600 (let alone your blog, my god.)

1600x1200 is comfortable for me, but then i can keep a couple of things open at once. Depends on the size of your monitor, i guess?

[Peripat]

blackdog, I can adjust mine, too - I'd suggest not having it on the lowest possible resolution (the lowest numbers)... if only because most pages (and programs) these days are viewed better at a higher resolution.

[blackdog]

ok guys thanx fer yer input but now i reset it at 1024x768 and now it has 2 inches boarders on each side and i have to kinda squint now ,before it fit perfctly in my 17 inch monitor anything else i might be missing?/messing up ? lol

[Peripat]

Having never had a monitor that big (insert "size isn't everything" jokes here, lol), I'm afraid I can't be of assistance. But I've never heard of that happening. Weird!

[bi11i]

ok guys thanx fer yer input but now i reset it at 1024x768 and now it has 2 inches boarders on each side and i have to kinda squint now ,before it fit perfctly in my 17 inch monitor anything else i might be missing?/messing up ? lolare you using a laptop? orrrr, can you adjust your monitor using the buttons on the front of it to widen the screen? how about at a higher resolution?

sometimes, it's a good idea to mess with the refresh rate, as well. just don't select anything that your monitor won't handle...

[Curio]

On the poll my res isn't listed.
new Macbook:
1280 x 800

[Curio]

wtf?

this is an old thread that somehow came up when I did a "new posts" search!!

sorry for dusting off an oldie for confusing all the ophiles!

[exitwound]

My workstation is a bit of a monster. 3-5 machines, up to seven monitors. Usually two desktop Macs (a PowerMac G5 and an iMac Intel Core Duo) plus a recent-model Wintel PC.

The displays are: Apple Cinema HD 23 flat panel (16:10 widescreen 1920x1200) on the G5, built-in 20 inch 16:10 1680x1050 widescreen flat panel display, 17-inch Apple standard aspect 1280x1024 digital flat panel hooked up as a second screen on the iMac, and a 15-inch Apple analog flat panel hooked up to the PC @ 1024x768.

Sometimes my Powerbook G3 joins the fray with another 1024x768....I had a Powerbook G4 15-inch widescreen 1280x854 but its graphics chip got fried from getting bashed around in that thin little titanium enclosure and it's now my main web server....

I'm thinking a lot about buying a new MacBook, but I'll probably wait until the models with Merom Core 2 Duo chips come out before deciding on what to buy. I want to spend as little as possible while getting a machine that can basically serve as my sole machine if need be. I want to have the option of selling off my other hardware at the drop of a hat; I have invested way too much in all this hardware over the years and I'd like to cash as much of it out as possible while it still retains some of its value.

[exitwound]

Anyhow the 23-inch and the 20-inch are most likely to display the Opiophorum for me. So, lots of pixels.

I really want a 30-inch Cinema, but they're still $2000 even for a refurb....and I don't believe I even have a card that supports dual-link DVI right now so I'd have to pick up an ATi Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition (twice as fast as my G5's current Radeon 9800 Special Edition 256MB) for another $430. That's a boatload of cash, so I'm focusing on finding a laptop to take over for my nearly-obsolete PBG3 400MHz. The poor beast has nice, fast updated 40GB HDD that's years newer than the rest of it, and 768MB of RAM, but it doesn't even have accelerated graphics *at all*, the onboard chip is unsupported by OS X. It doesn't even fully display Millions of Colors properly for some reason, probably a sign that this laptop's GPU is about to shit the bed too and become a full-time server itself....

[superman]

"damn, I'm the ONLY one with the 1600x1200 display?"

certainly not, I use a 19" as my main display and fucking hate being lower than 1600x1200. sometimes i'll use a 17"(1280x1024) as a secondary display, but more often i'll be displaying movies or shows on a TV(800x600(Boooo!)) (i don't watch TV, just use one as a monitor)

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Anybody wondering why everything looks fucked up when they switch to 1280x1024 or 1600x1200, don't worry about it, you will adjust. but make use of the space, put msn chat on the right, make it skinny. put you web browser window over the left side of msn, so that you can still see your contacts names.
put chat windows at the bottom, just above the start bar or whatever shell element you have there.

I never maximize anything, no need.... a high resolution lets you see everything as it was meant to be seen!

[defenestrate]

i'm generally either running at 1280x1024 on my 19" LCD or at 1280x800 on my notebook (not a huge screen, but it's a widescreen for movie viewing, so the width isn't too bad). i have a CRT or 2, but i've grown to really love LCDs, so i'm sticking to 'em.

[alowishus]

All that beautiful stuff, Apple Cinema, two G5's...etc etc. AND ALL YOU HAVE IS A 9800!!!!

It's like having a Enzo Ferrari w/ a 3 cylinder engine from a Geo Metro to power it. You can get the X800 for $50-$80 cheaper if you look.

I've got two 7800's in my system and don't even use it. I use an old dell from 2001 (w/ RAMBUS BABY) I've been upgrading ever since , just can't stop using it, I love my rambus.

But I do watch it on a 42" plasma, or a 30" plasma. Some day I'll hook up that HTPC also, but I'll just got too many and only can just one at a time (no matter how many movies your buring or downloading).

I didn't vote figure the poll has LONG been dead, and besides I didn't see anything for 2560x1600.

[exitwound]

I want to have a spiffier GPU, but I don't have a lot of money to blow on that. Frankly I don't have a lot of time for gaming, with chronic pain and a business and a baby etc....

I also don't have a lot of money to spare.

Don't forget, my iMac Core Duo has a pretty spiffy X1600, which ain't no GFX7800 but it holds its own....same with the MacBook Pro 17-inch 2.16GHz high-end model with 100GB 7200RPM SATA hdd etc, has a very similarly performing high-end version of the X1600 Mobility.

I will definitely be getting an X800 XT Mac Edition in the not too distant future; I'm waiting for it to drop under $250. $430 is way too high for a GPU that is only needed for games that I can't afford to blow money on anyway. I'd gladly get one of the high-end GeForce cards for 8X AGP G5 Macs, but nobody's offering me one at a price I can afford....

Eventually I'll get a Mac Pro with a pair of SLI'd PCI Express graphics cards. For now, I'm focusing on selling at least one of my existing machines to help cover the huge cost of my new MacBook Pro 17/2.16 & the pimp-out additions I'm making to it (like the 7200RPM internal boot drive, the max 2GB of paired DDR2-667 RAM, and a Firewire 800 RAID array among other things).

I'd probably like to keep the iMac if I can manage it, since I could pop a Merom 2.4GHz or faster chip in there later on for a 50% speed boost....but the MacBook ought to be plenty fast for pretty much any task until the upgradable Core 2 desktop machines drop down to a nice value point.

[exitwound]

Heck, if I had the money to blow on a 7800 GTX card for my G5, I'd probably rather put it towards an X800 for several hundred less, and save the rest for a 30-inch Cinema! :-)

I'm a sucker for screen space.

[exitwound]

All that beautiful stuff, Apple Cinema, two G5's...etc etc. AND ALL YOU HAVE IS A 9800!!!!

It's like having a Enzo Ferrari w/ a 3 cylinder engine from a Geo Metro to power it. You can get the X800 for $50-$80 cheaper if you look.

I've got two 7800's in my system and don't even use it. I use an old dell from 2001 (w/ RAMBUS BABY) I've been upgrading ever since , just can't stop using it, I love my rambus.

But I do watch it on a 42" plasma, or a 30" plasma. Some day I'll hook up that HTPC also, but I'll just got too many and only can just one at a time (no matter how many movies your buring or downloading).

I didn't vote figure the poll has LONG been dead, and besides I didn't see anything for 2560x1600.

One may be able to find the lower-end X800's for PC's at those prices, but I'm not aware of any card that compares with the X800 XT Mac Edition (actually close to the Platinum Edition of the PC version, significantly faster than the XT PC version) and can actually be used in an 8X AGP PowerMac G5 like my early 2005 liquid-cooled model....

[alowishus]

For $366.30, this place got 5 starts from buyers.

https://usm.channelonline.com/magnumpc/storesite/Products/Overview/?id=M002274120

For $366.50

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=X800+XT+Mac+Edition&hl=en&lr=&lmode=online&scoring=p&sa=N&lnk=next&start=10

.....the search used.

[exitwound]

For $366.30, this place got 5 starts from buyers.

https://usm.channelonline.com/magnumpc/storesite/Products/Overview/?id=M002274120

For $366.50

http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=X800+XT+Mac+Edition&hl=en&lr=&lmode=online&scoring=p&sa=N&lnk=next&start=10

.....the search used.

That's a bit better, but I plan to wait quite a while longer until it drops to something more like $250 or $200. I just bought a pimped-out 17 inch MacBook Pro and that dug pretty deep into my bank acct....don't feel like blowing more money just for better 3D performance in my G5 any time soon.

[candyshop]

'kay, this is going to open me up to massive and relentless ridicule i am sure ,but how do i determine screen resolution?

[Duckfeet]

Mac users click on "System Preferences", then click on "Displays". You'll see it. 800 X 600. (Or one of those...)

[devilsdrug]

if someone wants to tell me how i figure it out id be glad to do pool ha

[oxymoron]

1280*1024, I have a 21" monitor and it's as high as my card will go. Everytime I go to a friends house and they have like a 17" or 15" screen I can't beleive how small it is. I have great vision, but I love my big monitor:)

[RoadHead]

DD--if you are asking how to check screen resolution, the easiest way is to right click anywhere open on the desktop and go to properties, then settings. It should show you all you need to know about your video setup. Advanced button shows you even more.

If you already knew and was just fishing, then you got me. :D
Maybe this can help someone else figure out how to check it though.

[devilsdrug]

thank you i am comp illiterate and since im heavy on pts u git a shit load now