How exactly is the difference between monitors with res 1680-** to 1920*1080

[MAXCAVALERA]

When you're playing a game , take wow for example or any other mmo

Does it make it look better?
Does it use make the system consume more resources?

Thanks in advance

[PixelFox]

Many 1920x1080 displays were built to be televisions, not necessarily computer monitors. There are many things that can make one display better than another and resolution is just one of those (and not necessarily the most important one) but I'm always a bit more skeptical of 1920x1080 displays.

Also 16:9 aspect ratio is wider than most traditional computer monitors. Probably fine for TV and gaming, but for portrait oriented documents (web pages among other things) it's often not as nice as having more vertical room to play with.

The higher the dots-per-inch the better the display will potentially look (but again resolution is not enough to make a crappy cheap display better than a more expensive one with lower resolution). The higher the total number of pixels, the more system (video card) performance it will need to produce the same frame rate in games.

PF.

[chazus]

More pixels = higher resolution = look better. Also, the larger the screen (ie 24" vs 27") the worse it will look at the same resolution. A 24" @ 1920x1080 will look better than a 27", unless you're sitting further away.

Higher resolution also taxes a system more. Mid range ~$250 cards have trouble pushing 2560x1440 in graphics intensive games. So basically...

Does it make it look better? Yup

Does it use make the system consume more resources? Yup

[Masark]

Probably fine for TV and gaming, but for portrait oriented documents (web pages among other things) it's often not as nice as having more vertical room to play with.

There's a handy solution to that.

1. Grab monitor firmly.
2. Flip it on its side.

About half the CAD guys here do that with one of their monitors (2 monitors are standard issue).

[Remilia]

It depends. A 1920x1080 on a 14" while ignoring everything else but pixel density would technically be better than a 1920x1080 on a 27" or more. Granted there's a viewing distance required. If say you're hugging up into the screen then that 14" will definitely look better. Similarly if it's a 1680x1050 on a smaller screen that pixel density would be higher lending to a better viewed quality.
1920x1080 tends to be the 'standard' at the moment. I'd prefer 1920x1200 personally but more expensive and rarer.
That being said though, if the visual quality of the game is crap, no matter what the pixel density is it'd look like crap.
If the quality of the monitor in terms of color accuracy is crap, then it also doesn't matter.

As stated before, yes it takes more resources.

[MAXCAVALERA]

I was thinking of either one of these :

http://www.asus.com/Monitors_Projectors/VS228DE/ 22" 10:9 1920x1080

http://www.asus.com/Monitors_Project...38NR/overview/ 23 " 10:9 1920x1080

They are very similar , the second one has more/high "numbers" in contrast/brightness but im sure its negligible specially in gaming.
The 1st one is cheeper