Hi everyone. i wanna ask you a thing. Right now i'm using 1024 times 768 resolution (this is the hightest resolution on my laptop) when i play a pc game. i'm trying to upgrade my resolution. In this case, do i have to buy a new monitor to use a higher resolution. If so, does anyone know where i can get a cheap new good monitor. (i mean web address etc.) i apprectiate your help.

It all depends on the game and if the rez is able to go that high for the game being a laptop most laptops use the ddr ram to run the graphics card, if the laptop dose not have ram built onto the motherboard for the gpu only. Also where are you trying to change the graphics size, in windows? or in the games options section as most games are set to 800x600 rez as a defult in the games option under video controler or something like that depending on the game. I have 2, 3.2 gig intel laptops and 11 computers all up incuding my laptops specs are for the 2 laptops *laptop (1) P4 3.2 HT / laptop 128Mhz ati radeon 9600/9700 chip /64mb built in gpu ram (not shared) off the 512 ddr ram 17inch wide screen Toshiba 40 gig HDD (Plays all latest games sweet/ half life2 doom 3 no problems) *laptop (2) P4 3.2 HT / laptop 128Mhz ati radeon 9600/9700 chip / bios asinged 64mb gpu ram (shared)of 256 ddr ram 15inch wide screen Toshiba 40 gig HDD The second one is not that crash hot for gamming but it runns allmost all games and will run need for speed underground full rez but needs more ram as the ram is sheared so sometime when going hard you might get a frame glitch or the proformance slows till it gets past that point but all the same they will run what i want. The resion i tell you all this is because 1024 times 768 resolution is the hightest resolution on your laptop in the windows setting by the sounds of it, in witch thats the max rez the gpu can put out without trying to overclock your laptop gpu and force it to run a higher rez. So buying a new screen i say might not help. if this is the problem you would have to upgrade the gpu but you can not do that in a laptop as the gpu is built into the motherboard on a laptop so the chip is not upgradeable like a home pc can be. But if you want a gaming laptop do not look under the first laptop size in my list or you will not be able to run HL2 and doom3 smooth. anyway hope this helps you out a little.

Desktop screen resolution & the resolution used in games are two completely different things. And generally speaking, laptops are not good for gaming anyway...unless you paid big bucks for a "gaming laptop". Judging from your RAM listed at 448MB, I'd say you didn't...you probably have a standard store bought laptop with Intel Extreme Graphics w/shared RAM. For best performance, you should run your games on the lowest resolution, not the highest. ASUS A7N8X-X Athlon XP 1800+ 8.5 x 200MHz 1024MB PC3200 2.5-3-3-7 Asus A9550GE/TD 128MB WinME/WinXP Pro SP2

And who would want to lug around a crt monitor with there laptop, kinda defeats the point... Windows Xp Pro x64 AMD Sempron 3000+ 1.8ghz 1 Gig Ram pc2700 Nforce 4 Motherboard Radeon X700 256mb Realtek Ac 97 Onboard Audio Thermaltake 430W Power Supply

one of the game speed performance is depend on the resolution of the game, not the desktop. doesnt matter how high/low you set for the desktop resolution. 3.2GHZ Intel Pentium EE 840 1GB Dual-channel DDR2-533 RAM Asus P5ND2-SLI Deluxe mobo 2 EVGA E-Geforce 7800GTX Creative Soundblaster X-Fi 550W PSU

Thanks for all your comments. I'll think I might buy a new laptop or desktop.