choosing a monitor for your pc is becoming so confusing

every week we have in this group a new thread about what
is best when buying a monitor and i now realize why this
happens, cause currently buying a monitor for your pc is
not easy at all
crt seem to be out of the picture but it doesn't make
things easier
if i was to buy a monitor now, which i don't need but if
i was to buy it i seriously wouldn't know what to do

1. the switch to lcd 17" and 19" with a aspect ratio of
5:4 was a bad deal for pc gamers cause the old standard
4:3 is better for games. i guess pcs for the office are
more important than pcs for games so we were left in 2nd
place

2. now with the market dominated by 17" and 19" lcds with
5:4 aspect ratio and the 1280x1024 resolution there are
still pc games that don't support it natively due to this
weird aspect ratio (5:4), pc games like f.e.a.r and
boiling point two recently released titles only support
resolutions with 4:3 aspect ratio

3. and even if pc games support 1280x1024 resolution and
5:4 aspect ratio, average pc gamers like me which don't
have powerful enough graphic cards to run games at this
native high resolution and need to use lower resolutions
like 800x600 or 1024x768, so when using a 17" or 19" lcd
the image will need to be scaled and it will be distorted
due to the different aspect ratios

4. then there is widescreen and for me it seams even a bigger
mess, no standard resolution, no standard aspect ratios so it
is almost impossible to get a graphic card, widescreen monitor
and a pc game title all to agree and all supporting the same
resolution/aspect ratio

5. and i really don't like the idea of manually having to
adjust the resolution, aspect ratio and fov (field of view)
in a ini file. i like very much the pc giving you ways to
tweak but i will not go so far as to have to dig ini files
or the registry to be able to have a distorted free image
every time i play every pc games i buy

6. for me the best solution would be a 20" lcd 4:3 aspect
ratio and a 1600x1200 resolution but those are not only very
expensive and with limited availability but also require a
insanely powerful graphic card to run games at that resolution
so making it all impossible for the average pc gamer like
myself

fortunately i don't have to buy a monitor cause if i did i
would not know what to choose
i can't see myself now paying for either a 17" or 19" lcd
or any widescreen offer with no standard resolution or aspect
ratio

and when the time comes and i will eventually need to buy a
new monitor then i hope the choice will be simpler, either a
20" lcd 4:3 aspect ratio monitor with a affordable price and
good for the office, or a widescreen single standard choice
with whatever resolution and aspect ratio the industry decides
and agrees to support and obviously much better for games

.

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