Does resolution affect cpu or ram?

[Witward]

Hello, im getting ready to purchase a computer with these specs, athlon x2 2.3ghz, 3 gigs of ram. Im planning on putting my money in a good graphics card and psu. Here is my question. Im planning on getting a 23 inch acer with a resolution of 1900x1080. Will this affect my ram and proccesor or is resolution solly running from the gpu? I need to know if the 23 inch is going to affect my overall pc performance, if it is i may be going with a 22 inch 1680x1050 resolution. Or can i depend on my video card to get the job done? Please let me know your thoughts about this, thank you very much in advance for your help. P.S i was thinking of going with an nvidia 9800gt or 8800gt.

[cmichael258]

The ATI Radeon 4850 will give you 1920 x 1080.

http://computers.pricegrabber.com/video-cards/ati+4850/p/5/form_keyword=ati+4850/topcat_id=1/st=query/rd=1


http://www.legitreviews.com/article/731/1/

[Alaron]

Any video card made in the last few years will easily handle that resolution. You don't have to worry about overall PC performance suffering from high resolution. Running high-end games at that resolution will need a powerful PC though.

[Witward]

kinda confused though "Running high-end games at that resolution will need a powerful PC" if ill need a more power PC does that mean resolution does affect overall performance? Im mainly concerned about running World of warcraft. Should i go with the 22inch monitor?

[glc]

That computer with a 8800GT or 9800GT will play WoW fine at that resolution.

[Alaron]

Keep in mind that just running the Windows Desktop at a high resolution does not require a lot of video processing power. But when you crank up a game like Crysis and expect it to run at that resolution, you'd need some real horsepower. But as glc said, WoW is not a game like that so no worries. :)

[Witward]

ok kool, thanks alot guys. I guess i will be going with the 23 inch. One last thing will photoshop run good with that resolution. Wow and photoshop are my main concerns.

[Masaki 7-11]

ok kool, thanks alot guys. I guess i will be going with the 23 inch. One last thing will photoshop run good with that resolution. Wow and photoshop are my main concerns.

Photoshop won't have any problems with that resolution. I currently have WOW running maxed out with resolution of 1920x1200 on the backup computer in my sig. I would take a look at getting a HD4830 over a 9800GT since the performance is pretty much the same except the HD4830 is a good bit less expensive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102822

[Witward]

Masaki Thank you very much. This is exacly what i wanted to know. And that card is much more my price range. Im happy to hear you run wow maxed on that backup. That is good news to me.