[Help] LED TV as gaming rig monitor [EDIT]

42" Samsung LCD

(don't judge me, I only played that game for like a week)

As for you, I would go with the 1920x1080 monitor for the sake of being more usable in the future (like if you upgraded your video card in the future your monitor would not be holding you back) and because you can play HD movies at full resolution.

How is this even an option? I would go for 1920x1080 over anything lower blindfolded...you can play games on lower res as long as they ar 16:9 format...
1080p is really cool for web browsing, watching movies and especially for gaming (if the hardware allows xD)

Honestly I would take the option 2 if provided the choice, things is you will be able to run games better and from a tiny distance you won't notice the slight resolution decrease, actually most of my games look better on my 720p TV.

Both would do you fine though...though if its not only for games get a regular PC screen.

I think i will spend 50€ extra and get a 1080p 32" led tv...
After diner i will go to the store and look around, the web site doesn't have all the products they have in store.

I'd take monitor, not TV, these are unoptimized for tasks you do daily on PC, you know, unless that will be game-only PC.

I've been looking at getting this 24" 1920x1200 monitor for my new computer that I will hopefully be getting some time soon.

Personally I'd prefer to go for higher resolution over bigger size, particularly as it is going to be sitting only a short distance away on the desk in front of me. Anything much bigger than this and I think I'll have to start moving my head around too much or I'd have to move the screen further away, which would seem to defeat the point of spending more to get a larger size anyway...

Also if you want it for gaming you might want to look into the pixel response time as well as the refresh rate. As I understand it, too low of a response time will make fast movements in games blurry or leave ghost images, and too low Hz for the refresh rate will limit the smoothness you can experience with games running at high frame rates.

I have three ASUS VH242Hs (23.6" 1080p) set up like this. I'm pretty happy with my setup to say the least.

I would NOT reccomend a tv as monitor. It is not set up to handle many resolutions, but worst thing is, that even on "gaming mode", most tv's have en input lag of 50+ms. You will actually feel your mouse being laggy.

Get an Asus VS248H-P (24inch led). You can hook up your dvd/blu-ray player to the hmdi and it will play out of the speakers.

Very high resolution is not a fact for me to take in consideration. I only have a hd 7770 and a Phenom II 965 be, so can't play on very high resolutions even if i wanted to.

I never liked consoles, but since last year i really enjoy playing games like dirt2, gta4, indies, etc with a DS3 controller from the couch i have in my room, so actual size matters to me.

I will go to store in about an hour, so i will update you guys later.

because of the amd radeon hd 7770 keep the old 19 inch 1440 x 900 pc moitor and buy a 42 inch or bigger hdtv. Otherwikse try to find a 720p hdtv 26 inches or less.

Yesterday i got a 32" FullHD LED TV.
My face is about 1meter away from it so some time i notice some pixels, bout apart from that it's great.
Played L4D2 in co-op during the nigth at it is amazing!