Hey folks, I've been looking at monitors just for my own personal curiosity. My Sony laptop has a 1.6:1 aspect ratio screen (slightly more height:width than a 16:9 HDTV) and there's a few 20" 1.6:1 LCD's out there. They all have a resolution of 1680x1050. Now, I've found graphics cards that support a 1.6:1 aspect ratio, but at a resolution of 1920x1200 (btw, 1080i HDTV is 1920x1080). Now, if a card can do a 1.6:1 aspect ratio at 1920x1200, should it also be able to do it at 1680x1050? And would this be hooked up using a DVI or VGA plug? Thank you oh so much, because I have no idea how this would work.

 

most likely it'll be through DVI.

Most vid cards have a laundry list of resolutions that they support. Sure on the website they will list like 5, but in reality they really support like 55... in True Color. 70 in hi color. and probably 200 in 256. Point is that if a vid cards max VxH is more than the monitors VxH, then it can probably do just about everything in between and find something the monitor would be happy with.

 

Ok, now DVI is a digital-only plug, correct? The specs for the card I'm lookin at say, "2048 x 1536 x 32bit x 85 Hz Max Analog; 1600 x 1200 Max Digital"...so does that mean if I wanna do anything over 1600x1200 then it's through the VGA plug instead of the DVI plug?

 

nm.

 

nope VGA is analog. DVI is digital.

 

I just always assumed it was binary. I didnt know it sent signals other than 0's and 1's.

http://bugclub.org/beginners/hardware/vga.html

good catch :goodjob:

 

eh no big deal.

 

Correct. From what I've seen most vid cards have higher analog output than DVI.