Ie screen / display. What would be the display monitor most suited to what you do and why? What would be your preferred resolution? Dual / more monitors? Would you like 21:9 monitors? Why / why not? Seemed interesting to discuss.

I got the idea for this thread from Alaric's one : https://www.gog.com/forum/general/ag352ucg_ag352ucx_rumors

As to my own, I currently play on a crappy 768p one because my budget was tight and my parents asked me to get the cheapest one. I originally planned to get a 900p one which would be better for playing RTSes and matched the power of my GPU for games out then.

I'd say an ideal one for me would be 1440p since it gives you more vision in RTS games and I don't like higher resolutions that much. I think you can overclock them for higher refresh rates but that probably isn't very safe. I play my old disk versions of Splinter Cell games and those go up to 100fps while locked and any unlocked RTSs would be much better at higher refresh rates as well and I have no problems toning down graphics in those to get to higher framerates. So ideal RR is 90-120Ghz.

As to other stuff, I'd probably like that AMD version of G-synch since I'm an AMD fanboy. I never understood the need for curved monitors because you can't sit back and watch a movie because you have to be close / at an optimal distance all the time.

Hey, man! =)

Depending on the build quality and the components used, you can safely overclock your monitor more often than not.

A few years ago I had a Dell UltraSharp 3008WFP 30" 2560x1600 and there was no way to overclock it past the default 60Hz. Even trying to take it to 61Hz made it just outright stop working until reset back.

Currently, however, I'm running an ASUS PB278Q 27" 2560x1440. It's overclocked at 85Hz and has been running stable so several years. I was able to take it to 95Hz but it was fairly unstable. I suspect that with adequate cooling I could have taken it even further, but I didn't feel like going that far just for a few Hz.

I'm going to be off topic here (and a century ahead of time probably), but how about a monitor that physically scales to the resolution you set in yer' software (maybe with a scale factor for older stuff), huh? Would that be cool or what? :P

Want to play an older 4:3 resolution game? No problem, the monitor gets squarey for you.

Are you planning to watch a 16:9 movie? Bam, the driver morphs/expands the screen into a wider format.

In my defense, you DID say ideal.

If you are playing a 4:3 game, how is a physically scaling monitor any better than just a 1:1 pixel ratio? What are you gaining that way?

I would want a modern 4:3 monitor. It should take a variety of inputs, including VGA and HDMI (preferably *without* HDCP support). Also, it should be 4:3, not any of the "widescreen" height-crippled formats.

Even better would be if it had USB ports and could run (on the monitor itself) a hackable Linux distro.

On a 1:1 pixel ratio, you'd lose the vertical black bars, as the screen would shift in size to adapt. Am I the only one who is deeply annoyed by them?

Nothing major - just a simple 1920x1200 17" matte screen for a laptop. 16x10s used to be relatively easy to find but these days they don't seem to have a place in a gaming laptop market.

I like 16:10, feels natural when working and gaming. I use dual monitors but they don't share same screen.

I don't see what the problem is. I mean you are still getting your 4:3 resolution. Sure there is some unused horizontal space, but how is that truly different from just chopping off the sides of the monitor? I mean aesthetically it looks different, sure, but what exactly are you losing in that setup?

And I also know people who are not bothered by unused monitor space. Unfortunately I'm not one of them, otherwise I would have switched to a 16:9 monitor long ago (I still have a first generation 17" 4:3 LCD).

From a technical standpoint, you're right, there's no loss. It is, in essence, an aesthetic issue.

This one.

I'd go with some variant of VA over IPS. They really got their response times down and the rich blacks, good contrast and lack of bleed make them better overall.

Good to know, was looking at another IPS or PLS will see what VA's are available within my budget.