LCD for Gaming / PC Monitor use

[ukclaret]

Hi there

I am currently looking at the Samsung 26'' LE26A457 as a second TV to use with my xbox 360 and my PC as a monitor.

Is this a decent LCD tv for such a task? I am not sure whether this is an older Samsung model or not.

My other concern is how my PC will display on such a screen size. My desktop is about 6 years old now and has an ancient 64MB nvidia card in it. Will this present problems when using this TV as a monitor. I really don't want any black bars etc

Any advice appreciated

 

[adz4321]

Do you have the elite xbox ?

 

[adz4321]

Ok its got HDMI input so if you've got an xbox360 elite its gonna look the muts nuts if not go buy an elite! , as for your pc i had my old 32 inch lcd on my old nev 64mb card it looked ok but wasnt great - check out ebuyer for a new pc!

 

[ukclaret]

Ok its got HDMI input so if you've got an xbox360 elite its gonna look the muts nuts if not go buy an elite! , as for your pc i had my old 32 inch lcd on my old nev 64mb card it looked ok but wasnt great - check out ebuyer for a new pc!

Sorry its took a while to respond.

Yes I have got an elite so the HDMI side of things is ready to go.

No funds for a new PC so it will have to do. It is currently on a crappy 15" TFT with really low end resolution so the 26" Samsung must be an improvement on that!!

I am sure my current res is governed by the monitor not the graphics card as when I took my PC to work once and hooked it up to another (newer) monitor it could exceed the res I got on the monitor at home. Hope that makes sense!

 

[FozzieTheBear]

The telly has a resolution of 1368 x 768 so your PC should be fine- it will prob run at 1024 x 768, so you will see black bars down the sides, unless the PC can be pursuaded to go widescreen (i.e 1368 x 768)- I have a vintage PC with on board graphics and it managed to get this resolution, but needed a driver update.