Ebaying and building a PC

[m3lt]

Originally Posted by onoski

Thanks for the insight m3lt, as I just ordered this monitor from ebuyer and can't wait to get my greasy paws on it

My current monitor 19 inch NEC MultiSync LCD 1880SX was given to me by work over 2 yrs ago and only supports display 1280 x 768.

I recently bought pro evolution soccer 2009 and think this monitor can't cope as I keep getting error message on Vista Ultimate 32 bit version that the program caused an error and has stopped working please close program.

Fingers crossed

Glad to help.

But I dont think the monitor itself was the cause for the problem with Pro Evolution Soccer 2009. Monitors as far my experience goes, *very* rarely are the cause of a problem from a software point of view.

What can in rare events happen, is that the monitor might not support some resolutions or refresh rates but, your windows is not affected by it to the point of saying "the program caused an error and has stopped working please close program".
This is normally due to some error with either the OS and the software itself (imcompatibility) and/or the graphics card drivers with the software/OS.

Because if the monitor went in an out of range resolution/refresh rate you would see a black screen and possibly an information on the monitor itself telling you that the resolution/refresh rate is not support. Which in either cases you would not be able to see that message you told us about.

But enjoy the new monitor you have bought, seems very good and a very nice price indeed.

[Pheonicks56]

Just keep in mind when building a system from the ground up you start out with every door in the hallway open. You eventually want to get all the doors closed accept for one, which is essentially your shiny new system. So you have to chose either close the AMD door or Intel door. Now that you've chosen that you can decide which type of mobo to look at. Narrow down some doors by chosing either nVidia or Radeon. Now close some more doors with which exact mobo, proc and GFX card fit in the budget. Throw at least 4GB DDR2 RAM at least in, a CD/DVD RW combo, a 500Watt PSU at the minimum, and a cheap case with some fans. Now your pretty much at the last door.

[Bluerinse]

Originally Posted by Pheonicks56

Narrow down some doors by chosing either nVidia or Radeon.

Radeon.. um what about ATI... lol, not that i would nVidia gets my vote today.. lets see what tomorrow brings

[onoski]

Originally Posted by m3lt

Glad to help.

But I dont think the monitor itself was the cause for the problem with Pro Evolution Soccer 2009. Monitors as far my experience goes, *very* rarely are the cause of a problem from a software point of view.

What can in rare events happen, is that the monitor might not support some resolutions or refresh rates but, your windows is not affected by it to the point of saying "the program caused an error and has stopped working please close program".
This is normally due to some error with either the OS and the software itself (imcompatibility) and/or the graphics card drivers with the software/OS.

Because if the monitor went in an out of range resolution/refresh rate you would see a black screen and possibly an information on the monitor itself telling you that the resolution/refresh rate is not support. Which in either cases you would not be able to see that message you told us about.

But enjoy the new monitor you have bought, seems very good and a very nice price indeed.

Thanks m3lt, knew it wasn't the fault of the monitor but just mentioned that as a higher resolution screen would come in handed. I recently bought a graphic card GT9600 512MB DDR3 OC Geoforce. I think it's something to do with the graphics card though but have updated the graphics drivers but still to no avail and even updated the direct x software to 9.0c.

Oh well, the funds of wanting to play a game on a PC I suppose. Thanks for the thoughts anyway