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Old 01-30-2005, 12:59 PM   #1
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What resolution do you run?

So I finally got around to taking a picture of my computer and putting it in my sig, as you can see. Now, my new sig looks fine on my 2001FP (1600x1200 resolution), but I realized when I was testing it out that it probably would start to look crappy at lower resolutions (as in, the picture wouldn't take up the whole left cell -- it would have a kind of letterbox look with borders on the top and bottom). I tested it out, and sure enough, it looks fine on anything 1152x864 or larger... but once you get down to 1024x768, it looks bad.

So I was wondering, in a PC enthusiast community such as this, how many people actually run 1024x768? In other words, how many people run a res that makes my sig look bad?

In case anybody wonders why I don't just make the image taller, the PCMech rules on images in sigs say they can be a maximum of 125 pixels tall. Mine is exactly that.
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