If this video taught me anything, it's that I'm so old that life has come full circle. As a teen I could never afford anything above 900p - and now in my late 30s my eyes are already deteriorating so much that I can't see the benefit of anything above 900p...
I have severe myopia and eye disease, maybe a 900p screen would give my 1070 some more longevity without really sacrificing and visual clarity for me haha
@@Grandmaster-Kush to the rescue, yes mate, there's the upside! 🤣Tbf neither of my monitors are capable of more than 1080p anyway, and as long as my GTX960 keeps pumping out pixels I guess I don't have a good excuse to spend any more money anytime soon 😛
playing games from 800x600 to 1024x768 was the norm for me. It wasnt until last year that i was able to play on 1080p with everything maxed out. it was just 1080p but after almost a decade of playing games under 720p, 1080p felt like 4k and I was in awe with how detailed all my games should've been. This video reminded me how i always configured my resolution just to reach that sweet 30 fps spot :))
my 2016 budget laptop.. oh my days the memories of needing optifine to turn everything down on minecraft to reach 30 fps, my golden days playing nonstop league of legends with a heavy cpu bottleneck at 1366x768 where in teamfights it could had been well a slideshow to say the least.. to trying to play crysis on it.. the days I learned what is config.exe and what many of them options would do :P. Specs of the beast were, intel celeron n2840 cpu, 4 gb ram upgraded from 2 gb ram a short while later from when I bought it, intel hd graphics with no number xD as a gpu. It even had problems running 2017 roblox at the lowest graphics :) or watch something over 720p video in youtube.. I'm legit suprised even now that people were buying such stuff even back in 2016...
When the 1050 was the go to budget like you state, is when I first got into computers. I'd always been a poverty console kid. Been studying for years, different health issues etc. stopped me from getting into a position to invest in anything other than a hp/dell 2nd hand system. I've just ordered all my parts to do my first build last night, going with the Arc a 750. So we've gone from the 1050 to intel throwing in their own poverty cards before I could finally invest. Thanks for educating me over the years and giving me the confidence to finally do this :)
Have fun playing like a chad. Nothing will ever beat the feeling of finally cranking up the graphics in the games. I went from playing 720p 30-60 fps to 1080p +60 fps after ten years two years ago.
I had a 900x1440p 75hz display for years! it was a 16:10 display, and i used it during my Skyrim modding days (2012 to 2015). It was absolutely good enough
Yooooo dude, i'm using a monitor with the same specs, it's still better than any cheap new monitor in the market tbh, and even more with that extra 15Hz
@@ArielDotUk yeah mine was a ViewSonic and unfortunately it died in 2018 which lead me to using a 60hz 1080p Samsung for a while. But it prompted me to get a new monitor which I got in early 2020 - a 1440p 165hz VA display. Now Its a matter of how many years I can get out of this display. Overall I got 11 years out of the Viewsonic
I bought a 900p monitor on accident, not understanding that 1440x900 isn't a 1440p display. Recently, I've hooked up my PC to my TV, which is 1080p and 32 in. What I quickly figured out is that from 5-6 feet away, I can see everything perfectly at 720p with no scaling issues, which was a massive performance bump for a visual difference I can't perceive.
@@ExtractedSamplesG210 If the game's TAA resolver is blurry enough, it really doesn't matter all that much. And monitor upscaling is usually a little bad due to bugs in gamma correction but GPU driver's upscaling, you have to enable that option specifically, usually does very cleanly.
Here is me in 2023 still using my old 1600x900p monitor from LG and after all these years of me seeing this monitor since a kid (appox. 10 years maybe more idr it's just old), it's now having grey lines covering the screen and is living it's last life and any day it will go away and it will be a goodbye 🥺😞
Up until a week ago I was gaming at 720p lowest with a gtx 870m laptop, i couldn't get a solid playtime anymore due to constant crashes even on games that ran good a year ago.. finally got a pc with an rx 570 8gb and my word what a difference it has been gaming at 1080p medium/high..
I own a Dell P2210 that has this res as the recommended one, it's working great with my Power Color AMD RX 6600. I could've upgraded to a 1080p monitor but i am so far enjoying what 1680 x 1050 has to offer.
Best monitor resolution no joke (Recently upgraded from dual 1050p monitors to a dirt cheap 28" 4K 60Hz Samsung monitor that I got for the grand price of 90€), those monitors were great, one of my friends has a 24" 1080p monitor and you might not believe me, but the 22" 16 : 10 monitor looks bigger... the 16:10 aspect ration is amazing for making smaller displays look bigger. Even though I love the sharpness of my new 4K monitor, I really can't say the same about my fps, of course, my pc is also much much better, but the struggle for 60 fps at 4K is much greater than at 1080p...
Lol i rember that old pc case that you have. That was one of the first video that i watch in your channel. The 25$ pc one i think. Glad to see you hold on to it after all these years.
Great to see you revisiting this resolution. Personally I'm still using a 900p monitor that I got for free from my uncle. While I would love to invest in a higher resolution display, my APU would probably struggle running some games at native resolution, so I'd rather wait for a dedicated GPU instead, before I make the jump to a fresh new display.
Im in a similar position. I got a 900p lenovo monitor back in 2018 and it still works like new, i honestly dont believe going to 1080p will be a much bigger jump but i always thought 900p was basically 1080p just a bit worse. Now i would like a 1080p monitor but i also would rather wait for a better gpu
What's great about lower resolution display is that, if the monitor is native 900p, there is no display upscale taking place, so the image looks sharp and clean, while taking less power to use. I remember fight night round 3 demo, running in xbox 360 booth that had a 23 inch screen, in native 720p thru component i believe, i could see the beads of sweat fly off the boxers getting hit, and it looked absolutely beautiful and sharp.
This resolution is so good to squeeze extra performance that even the Xbox series S sometimes comes with performance mode that targets 900p, and It's also very good for laptop iGPUs when plugged in a 1080p monitor, it's not quite 1080p but is way better than playing at 720p especially for indie/lighter titles that tend to have simpler graphics (and don't include fsr, like hades which still has "heavy" 3D rendering to do)
I am running a 2560x1440 resolution IPS monitor as my primary, and a friend gave me a very low hour Samsung 1600x900 TFT monitor to use as a secondary monitor. I can say that after gaming on both, I am glad I have enough graphics and processor horsepower now to push all of my games at decent settings on my big monitor....I have been spoiled by higher resolutions!
Hell, I'll still game at 720p on my old Core 2 Duo with an R7 250E potato pc. It's scaling that makes lower resolutions look so terrible. Your suggestion of finding a 900p monitor was excellent advice! For those who can't do that, you can go into your driver settings and change the view port. On a 1080p panel you would enter something like 1600x900+160+90 to get 900p centered on your monitor. Yes, it shrinks your display somewhat, but it's clean and crisp. I do this on a 1280x1080 monitor to get 720p with black bars on the top and bottom, and it looks great. We all do what we must. ;0)
Very nice video as usual! I always thought that 900p is a very reasonable resolution with quite a small impact on image quality but a decent bump up in performance. There was a time when my options were either 1080p with 45-50 fps or 900p with almost locked 60. I usually preferred the latter and most of the times I couldn't tell the difference. After a GPU upgrade I had a different dilemma as I had a 1920x1080 (16:9) and a 1680x1050 (16x10) monitor. The resolution of the latter is between 900p and 1080p so depending on the game and its performance I had to choose between 3 resolutions and 2 different aspect ratios
I've been using 900p monitor for almost 12 years and could only dream of gaming at 1080P at 60 FPS. Thanks to absurd GPU pricing, it seems like it will still remain a dream (haha :) ) . However, I've got a Ryzen 7000 CPU with built in RDNA2 GPU which is enough for 900 P, high framerate gaming for old games. I think I'm enjoying it more than ultra setting gaming since it reminds me of the simple and humble times of 900P low setting gaming. Cheers
Idk where u live but as someone who lives in africa with no amazon microcenter or any real gpu vendor , you can get some pretty good gpu deals from aliexpress , i've seen gtx 1660 super and rx 5600xt going for 110 usd and others like 6700xt for 280$ , granted some of them are used but if they perform well it shouldn't be an issue
Is the rx6600 or arc a750 not good enough for most games 1080p 60fps? Those are quite cheap at the moment, especially if you could afford a r5 7600 and a am5 motherboard.
I got what you mean. When i first build my new setup with a RTX 3060ti, i kept using msi afterburner all the time and chasing the most astonishing graphically games and the best fps results. Oh boy, that was a mistake. Definitively i was getting no fun at all. But when i across with an from software game, they taught me the hardest way. 60 fps max cap and graphics settings that doesnt matter too much. Now everytime i load up a new game, i just disable motion blurn, set medium/high graphics and turn vsync on. Thats way better, focus 100% in the game content
19 or 20 inch monitor with 1366x768 res is the way to go for me, if the game doesn't have insane noise and jagged edges, i just use FXAA, otherwise TAA for me, FSR2 is so ghosty for this res, but if you have to use it, crank the sharpness to atleast 75%
I swear it's like you read my mind sometimes lol. I'm using a 1050ti 4gb Laptop and I game at 900p on a 2nd 27inch 1080p monitor! I recently downloaded Warzone 2 and was just thinking about how much of a FPS difference it is between 1080p and 900p! The extra 10-20 fps in games vs playing at 1080p is the difference between 35 and 50fps. The right Resolution in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world ;)
It's weird to think in all my years of being a cheapo, I've never stopped at 900p. I went from 640x480 (Radeon TNT, Nvidia NVS200, 8800 GTS), to 720p (HD 7870) to 1080p (RX 460 4gb, RX 480 "Red Devil", Mobile GTX 1660) and never really stopped anywhere in between.
I still play at 900p windowed on my 1080p monitor. I just prefer to be able to click on other things on my pc while I am playing (I.e., background youtube videos, discord, etc.).
@@Kryptic1046 Exactly! You cannot even open Task Manager to close the game if it is at fullscreen and becomes frozen and unresponsive - in this case it's not even possible to close it, nor to reach the desktop or any other opened applications!
When I started my proper foray into PC gaming, I started with a laptop that had a GT540M, but that had its own caveats and I was able to get a laptop with a GTX 850M DDR3 variant, but the screen that came with it was 1366x768 which offset the lower bandwidth vs the GDDR5 variant. It held fast for the longest time. When I got an actual PC, I was able to score a B Grade GTX 960 4GB for cheap, and found a decent 900p monitor, which ensured that I got more performance. It wasn't until I moved to the GTX 1060 is where I finally aimed for 1080p... I'm now on an RTX 3060 Ti, still at 1080p, but happy with what I got
I build very cheap systems and some times a 900p monitor will get you into the game where a 1080 is out side the budjet. You save on the screen and get good FPS in games
I played at 768p cause back in the day my gaming laptop had that display and I didn’t have enough money to buy a 1080p monitor and the display provided a good experience
I'm currently playing all my games on ultra settings at 1366x768 using a Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580. Prior to that, I had been using an Asrock RX 550 2GB, which wasn't quite up to par anymore
Played Elden Ring in 900p low on my 5700g using igpu because it gave me 40-50 fps consistently and 1080p was 25-30. 900p is really not that bad considering that A LOT of more demanding games were rendered in 900p or sometimes even lower on ps4
Yeah, gains from lowering the resolution were a lot less than Id have expected. Really goes to show that in a LOT of games the GPU load isnt just dictated by physically drawing pixels, but a lot of other stuff as well. Its a bit like trying to cut down cooking time of your pasta by cooking less pasta.
G'day Random, "The difference between 17 & 19 doesn't sound like much but here in the UK it's the difference between getting served in a pub & not" 😂Yeah same down here in Australia 🤔with the price of everthing going up over the last few years I hope 900p still gets you a shout🍻 instead of needing 1080p. While UK viewers shoud get this I am sure this joke will not make cents to Americans.
Currently using a HP 2009m that I've had since 2009. A 900p monitor that can be OCed to 85hz. It helps me get the most out of my 1660 Super with AAA titles
More and more GPUs are going to need to be DX12 Ultra for different games to get a better experience. The good news is that for people that have ANY money kicking around AMD RDNA 2 GPUs have been dirt cheap and in not too long the 7600 is going to be in the range of $220 USD which is honestly an AMAZING deal for the performance that GPU has, along with 8GB VRAM.
I games at a 900p a lot during the great graphics card shortage when I was relying on 5600g integrated graphics. Now I have a 3060ti so that doesn't need to happen.
I started gaming at an age and time where I started at 480p on my Nintendo Wii and PS2 (which ran games at variable resolutions approximate to 480p), then switched instantly to 1080p (my prebuilt ACER pc from 2014, and a PS3 (I think the PS3 was 1080p). Although, I did run some games at 900p back when I was on my i5-4440 integrated graphics 😬
Also that 1440p ultrawide may seem pretty good today, but I don't plan on upgrading it until way after it's the 900p of the future, assuming it still works then
There are so few games in modern benchmarking videos that I want to play at ANY resolution tbh, and even low end new cards can 1440 stuff like Sunbreak with good frames. I was on a 750Ti for ages and when I finally moved to an RX580 I found it hard to even use the headroom. I feel like I'm good for a while on my 6600 now. I scarcely want to play anything more demanding than DQ Builders 2.
900p is still my preferred resolution. Of course, the HP w1907 I use is a 1440x900 monitor (16:10 is soooo much better than 16:9), so there's no point using anything higher, for the most part (other than 1080p settings for videos, of course). :)
I played at 900p on a r9 280x, and it was perfect for me. A lot of the games I played was at 60fps 😎. I managed sometimes to get warzone 1 running at 50-60fps
I got into pc gaming a while ago, and i borrowed a TN 1440x900 monitor from my sister, and kept him about 6 years. 6 very happy long years. That was all i got, paired with an msi gtx 670, that thing was a beast. I played battlefield 3 night and day with that setup, and BF4 too. Now that i am playing constantly in quad hd, nvidia say to me that i must use dlss and frame generation to get better frames in the new gpus. Oh boy, it was a great time playing under 1080p, but i will never go down this resolution ever again, even with upscaling. Maybe if i played in 4k, i would use. But naaah. Seems like im back to 2013
This was the resolution I played most games at on my 8800GS back in 2009/2010. The 384MB RAM wasn't quite enough for Modern Warfare 2 (the original one from 2009!) to run at a locked 60fps. Good times. It looks decent on a 1080p display too.
There’s so many dirt cheap new TV’s (32-42” roku types >$150 that are tuned for movies) that are coming out at native 720/768p I was curious how that would look like for retro gaming, or low end graphics cards. Before upgrading I would try 900p on 1080p but it looks toooo blurry imo. I’m still curious on how it would look like on a native res panel. No good videos on that subject though.
I had a 32 inch 768p TV for a while and the picture was fine, as long as you gave it some distance(as you should when using it as a TV). As long as you can keep the distance when using it as a PC monitor(like a couch PC) it should still be fine. I'd avoid sticking it on a desk at which you sit, though. You would very likely notice a fair bit of pixelation in that kind of setup.
I found a 1440x900 screen outside my last job one day and it works decently well. I'm gonna pair it with an old desktop I'm upgrading for a mid-range gaming PC I'll sell or give away.
i play at 900p. my 2200g doesn't have the bandwidth (i guess) to push 1080p and 900p gives a decent boost. i've seen it going from 30fps at 1080p to 50fps at 900p in some game i can't remember now. kingdom come deliverance comes to mind because it plays perfectly on this little thing.
I bring resolution down to 720p with dlss quality/performance on an rtx 3050 laptop gpu with select titles. I will say, dlss quality at 720p makes the image look like 1080p.
I still use a 900p 75hz monitor. I have an rx5700 and ryzen 2600. I usually turn down most graphical effects too since I find them distracting. I'm fairly certain that at this point, my CPU is struggling to keep up since I'm not taxing my GPU very hard. I get awful 1% lows which give noticeably stutters.
My 3rd PC from spare parts have GTX 1050 2gb version(128bit) with R3 1200AF, what I bought when I already have Radeon 7950 (384bit memory bus)... I was surprised how good it runs Witcher 3 Med-High settings (50-65FPS) compare to 7950 (40-45FPS with AMD-FX 8350 and 1866Memory) and yes both cards run in 900p resolution. When I testing battlefield 1 on medium settings I dropped resolution to 900p from FHD and it give me extra 10-15FPS, now it's CPU bound, but runs pretty well 55 FPS drops and 80 average. Main problem with lowering resolution on non native monitors it's gamma correction and details loss. I have much better hardware, but I always want to see how it will run on something like this, check optimization and squeeze every fps's.
I remember back when i had that old crt, I used to minimize the resolution to 768p. It was horrendous but at the same time, acceptable considering what I had. Today, turning resolution down isn't something people take into consideration. Reducing texture, aa and other types of quality settings are considered rather than lowering the resolution. 900p is an excellent choice considering 1050 and 3 gb vram. A lot of older cards could (and should) be used in this way other than straight away replacing the hardware. P.S. The potato roast was awesome (and the ex-girlfriend one too)
I;ve got a 1050ti(4gbRam), with Ryzen 3 1200 and 16gb of ddr4 @ 3200mhz I play two games, GTA Online, and Fallout76. High textures, most effects on/high (or near high), Good smooth gameplay 30-60fps. 720p (on a 4k Monitor via displayport ( i dunno what version))
720p will always be my favourite budget resolution. 900p is an in between that for me normally isn't worth it unless I really have performance to spare, but at that point would make a bit of effort to turn things down a bit and go for 1080p.
900p resolution is still a sweet spot for lower-end PC graphics cards such as "-50" series (GTX 1050, GTX 1650 etc.) for Nvidia & "-500" series (RX 5500, RX 6500) for AMD. I haven't seen PC handheld devices that have a 1600 x 1000 screen (16 by 10) because that resolution will strike a nice balance between graphics, performance & battery life. Imagine Steam Deck 2 with a 1000p 16 by 10 screen or Switch Pro with 900p in handheld mode
God I was spoiled - I never even realised that people turned down their resolution in games, after building my first custom computer (as opposed to prebuilt) using the Q6600 and 8800 GTX I've always just upgraded whenever max resolution wasn't smooth anymore, so I am very glad for the perspective that you offer
I think it's a bit of a shame 900p monitors (mostly) aren't around anymore. They are much more of a sweet spot for 18,5-21,5 inch panels than 720p is and the performance gain on older hardware really is pretty significant. And it always looks better to play on native resolution than to reduce it to something that doesn't really match the pixel distrubution of the panel. I guess the bright side is that monitors nowadays are pretty sturdy and second hand market is pretty rich. ...Just thinking about it now, I haven't had a monitor die on me for the last 20 years or so, while I've seen so many TVs do just that for no apparent reason? What's up with that...
1080p is phasing out too for 1440p. Hopefully soon both phase out and 4k becomes the norm. Graphics cards and 4k refresh rates have gotten to the point where 4k gaming is possible.
@@humble2246 I'm not sure if we'll in foreseeable future get to the point where affordable parts make gaming in 4k fully viable, but the nice part of 4k screens is that you can set then to 1080p while not going against the pixel layout. ;)
Funny. I just bought a used workstation with a T2000 GPU and this pops up. I'll be utilizing this method once again, and probably won't even notice a difference on the 15.6" screen.
If this video taught me anything, it's that I'm so old that life has come full circle. As a teen I could never afford anything above 900p - and now in my late 30s my eyes are already deteriorating so much that I can't see the benefit of anything above 900p...
I hear that haha
I have severe myopia and eye disease, maybe a 900p screen would give my 1070 some more longevity without really sacrificing and visual clarity for me haha
I mean if it's that bad I'd say get a nice 1440p screen and use 720p if u want integer scaling etc
Fellow gamers in their 30s
@@Grandmaster-Kush to the rescue, yes mate, there's the upside! 🤣Tbf neither of my monitors are capable of more than 1080p anyway, and as long as my GTX960 keeps pumping out pixels I guess I don't have a good excuse to spend any more money anytime soon 😛
playing games from 800x600 to 1024x768 was the norm for me. It wasnt until last year that i was able to play on 1080p with everything maxed out. it was just 1080p but after almost a decade of playing games under 720p, 1080p felt like 4k and I was in awe with how detailed all my games should've been. This video reminded me how i always configured my resolution just to reach that sweet 30 fps spot :))
Same, with my old HD7450, even use a CRU to make the 4:3 ratio resolution to a 16:9 like 1024*576
4k 144fps hdr is the cake though.
1280x720 or1280x1024 was still shockingly good to me when I go back to my good old pc.
@@silverhawk73248k60fps
my 2016 budget laptop.. oh my days the memories of needing optifine to turn everything down on minecraft to reach 30 fps, my golden days playing nonstop league of legends with a heavy cpu bottleneck at 1366x768 where in teamfights it could had been well a slideshow to say the least.. to trying to play crysis on it.. the days I learned what is config.exe and what many of them options would do :P. Specs of the beast were, intel celeron n2840 cpu, 4 gb ram upgraded from 2 gb ram a short while later from when I bought it, intel hd graphics with no number xD as a gpu. It even had problems running 2017 roblox at the lowest graphics :) or watch something over 720p video in youtube.. I'm legit suprised even now that people were buying such stuff even back in 2016...
"And I looked like one" , you didn't have to do yourself like that ☹️
Certified brit
He misspoke still looks like one
@@realname7749 nah bro he wholesome
@@alecscsf potatoes are wholesome. He makes a joke chat needs to learn jokes too, or at least how to accept them
@@realname7749 I love potatoes , especially fried
I definitely enjoyed this. Spreading the word of the humble 900p to our less fortunate PC gaming heroes is a noble cause.
So glad you've found such good sucess with your channel since lockdown. Always watch everyday and the content never disappoints
When the 1050 was the go to budget like you state, is when I first got into computers. I'd always been a poverty console kid. Been studying for years, different health issues etc. stopped me from getting into a position to invest in anything other than a hp/dell 2nd hand system. I've just ordered all my parts to do my first build last night, going with the Arc a 750. So we've gone from the 1050 to intel throwing in their own poverty cards before I could finally invest. Thanks for educating me over the years and giving me the confidence to finally do this :)
Awesome :) have fun with the build
Awesome! I hope you have fun with your new system! 😊
Have fun playing like a chad. Nothing will ever beat the feeling of finally cranking up the graphics in the games. I went from playing 720p 30-60 fps to 1080p +60 fps after ten years two years ago.
@@Behdad47 thankyou bro. I can only imagine how fun it's going to be. Last of the stuff arriving friday. Feels like christmas :)
A750 is amazing choice, It's a demonic race car just held back by the tire quality. Even in that state, It still nails everything near that price.
I had a 900x1440p 75hz display for years! it was a 16:10 display, and i used it during my Skyrim modding days (2012 to 2015). It was absolutely good enough
Yooooo dude, i'm using a monitor with the same specs, it's still better than any cheap new monitor in the market tbh, and even more with that extra 15Hz
@@ArielDotUk yeah mine was a ViewSonic and unfortunately it died in 2018 which lead me to using a 60hz 1080p Samsung for a while. But it prompted me to get a new monitor which I got in early 2020 - a 1440p 165hz VA display. Now Its a matter of how many years I can get out of this display.
Overall I got 11 years out of the Viewsonic
1440x900p
@@MaxIronsThird sorry?
I had one monitor like that and used to make the joke that their horizontal pixels are my vertical ones lol (some friends had 1440p displays)
I bought a 900p monitor on accident, not understanding that 1440x900 isn't a 1440p display.
Recently, I've hooked up my PC to my TV, which is 1080p and 32 in. What I quickly figured out is that from 5-6 feet away, I can see everything perfectly at 720p with no scaling issues, which was a massive performance bump for a visual difference I can't perceive.
Rocking a 4K main monitor, but still using an Asus 900p monitor for YT, Twitch, web browsing etc while gaming on my main monitor 💪👍😎
Awesome
I really like 900p. I play a lot of games at 900p on my 1080p monitor. I can barely tell the difference between the two resolutions
@@ExtractedSamplesG210 If the game's TAA resolver is blurry enough, it really doesn't matter all that much. And monitor upscaling is usually a little bad due to bugs in gamma correction but GPU driver's upscaling, you have to enable that option specifically, usually does very cleanly.
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Here is me in 2023 still using my old 1600x900p monitor from LG and after all these years of me seeing this monitor since a kid (appox. 10 years maybe more idr it's just old), it's now having grey lines covering the screen and is living it's last life and any day it will go away and it will be a goodbye 🥺😞
It’s done well 😁
I play 900P on a 1080p monitor in windowed mode so I can tab out to do other things quickly while playing, it's beautiful
The joke about the difference between 17 and 19 was a blast
"Soulless like my ex" 💀💀
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Up until a week ago I was gaming at 720p lowest with a gtx 870m laptop, i couldn't get a solid playtime anymore due to constant crashes even on games that ran good a year ago.. finally got a pc with an rx 570 8gb and my word what a difference it has been gaming at 1080p medium/high..
I did a lot of my gaming at 1680×1050 (16:10). Almost 1080 but the slight reduction helped!
Yeah same!
Same! Gaming with my 650 2GB at 1050p. The good ol' days.
I own a Dell P2210 that has this res as the recommended one, it's working great with my Power Color AMD RX 6600. I could've upgraded to a 1080p monitor but i am so far enjoying what 1680 x 1050 has to offer.
Yep, would do again anyday. Perfectly adequate. These days I use 1920x1200, also 16x10.
Best monitor resolution no joke (Recently upgraded from dual 1050p monitors to a dirt cheap 28" 4K 60Hz Samsung monitor that I got for the grand price of 90€), those monitors were great, one of my friends has a 24" 1080p monitor and you might not believe me, but the 22" 16 : 10 monitor looks bigger... the 16:10 aspect ration is amazing for making smaller displays look bigger. Even though I love the sharpness of my new 4K monitor, I really can't say the same about my fps, of course, my pc is also much much better, but the struggle for 60 fps at 4K is much greater than at 1080p...
I really love the good/bad jokes that you made in your videos. Almost made me forget that this is a tech video lol
Lol i rember that old pc case that you have. That was one of the first video that i watch in your channel. The 25$ pc one i think. Glad to see you hold on to it after all these years.
Great to see you revisiting this resolution. Personally I'm still using a 900p monitor that I got for free from my uncle. While I would love to invest in a higher resolution display, my APU would probably struggle running some games at native resolution, so I'd rather wait for a dedicated GPU instead, before I make the jump to a fresh new display.
buy a cheap 900i CRT. beautiful picture
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Juuust out of curiosity: what kind of adapters would one need to connect a CRT to a modern PC (HDMI, DisplayPort)?
From 2011 till now still using 1600x900 monitor
It's work like a charm
Im in a similar position. I got a 900p lenovo monitor back in 2018 and it still works like new, i honestly dont believe going to 1080p will be a much bigger jump but i always thought 900p was basically 1080p just a bit worse. Now i would like a 1080p monitor but i also would rather wait for a better gpu
@@Sheroloxhdmi to vga, ez
I have multiple native 1366x768 monitors, and I refuse to buy any higher, it allows my mid-range GPUs to run at ultra settings with ease
What's great about lower resolution display is that, if the monitor is native 900p, there is no display upscale taking place, so the image looks sharp and clean, while taking less power to use.
I remember fight night round 3 demo, running in xbox 360 booth that had a 23 inch screen, in native 720p thru component i believe, i could see the beads of sweat fly off the boxers getting hit, and it looked absolutely beautiful and sharp.
This resolution is so good to squeeze extra performance that even the Xbox series S sometimes comes with performance mode that targets 900p, and It's also very good for laptop iGPUs when plugged in a 1080p monitor, it's not quite 1080p but is way better than playing at 720p especially for indie/lighter titles that tend to have simpler graphics (and don't include fsr, like hades which still has "heavy" 3D rendering to do)
I am running a 2560x1440 resolution IPS monitor as my primary, and a friend gave me a very low hour Samsung 1600x900 TFT monitor to use as a secondary monitor. I can say that after gaming on both, I am glad I have enough graphics and processor horsepower now to push all of my games at decent settings on my big monitor....I have been spoiled by higher resolutions!
"like my ex girlfriends soul" made me laugh way more than it shouldve 🤣🤣
Hell, I'll still game at 720p on my old Core 2 Duo with an R7 250E potato pc. It's scaling that makes lower resolutions look so terrible. Your suggestion of finding a 900p monitor was excellent advice! For those who can't do that, you can go into your driver settings and change the view port. On a 1080p panel you would enter something like 1600x900+160+90 to get 900p centered on your monitor. Yes, it shrinks your display somewhat, but it's clean and crisp. I do this on a 1280x1080 monitor to get 720p with black bars on the top and bottom, and it looks great. We all do what we must. ;0)
Haha, a potato. You grew from a potato to a beautiful lovely human bean, Steve
Still rocking 900p :D
Very nice video as usual!
I always thought that 900p is a very reasonable resolution with quite a small impact on image quality but a decent bump up in performance.
There was a time when my options were either 1080p with 45-50 fps or 900p with almost locked 60. I usually preferred the latter and most of the times I couldn't tell the difference.
After a GPU upgrade I had a different dilemma as I had a 1920x1080 (16:9) and a 1680x1050 (16x10) monitor. The resolution of the latter is between 900p and 1080p so depending on the game and its performance I had to choose between 3 resolutions and 2 different aspect ratios
I've been using 900p monitor for almost 12 years and could only dream of gaming at 1080P at 60 FPS. Thanks to absurd GPU pricing, it seems like it will still remain a dream (haha :) ) . However, I've got a Ryzen 7000 CPU with built in RDNA2 GPU which is enough for 900 P, high framerate gaming for old games. I think I'm enjoying it more than ultra setting gaming since it reminds me of the simple and humble times of 900P low setting gaming. Cheers
Idk where u live but as someone who lives in africa with no amazon microcenter or any real gpu vendor , you can get some pretty good gpu deals from aliexpress , i've seen gtx 1660 super and rx 5600xt going for 110 usd and others like 6700xt for 280$ , granted some of them are used but if they perform well it shouldn't be an issue
Is the rx6600 or arc a750 not good enough for most games 1080p 60fps? Those are quite cheap at the moment, especially if you could afford a r5 7600 and a am5 motherboard.
I got what you mean. When i first build my new setup with a RTX 3060ti, i kept using msi afterburner all the time and chasing the most astonishing graphically games and the best fps results. Oh boy, that was a mistake. Definitively i was getting no fun at all. But when i across with an from software game, they taught me the hardest way. 60 fps max cap and graphics settings that doesnt matter too much. Now everytime i load up a new game, i just disable motion blurn, set medium/high graphics and turn vsync on. Thats way better, focus 100% in the game content
19 or 20 inch monitor with 1366x768 res is the way to go for me, if the game doesn't have insane noise and jagged edges, i just use FXAA, otherwise TAA for me, FSR2 is so ghosty for this res, but if you have to use it, crank the sharpness to atleast 75%
I swear it's like you read my mind sometimes lol.
I'm using a 1050ti 4gb Laptop and I game at 900p on a 2nd 27inch 1080p monitor!
I recently downloaded Warzone 2 and was just thinking about how much of a FPS difference it is between 1080p and 900p!
The extra 10-20 fps in games vs playing at 1080p is the difference between 35 and 50fps.
The right Resolution in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world ;)
I have a 1050 3gb so this video is perfect! Thank you.
Oh sweet 900p, I have great memories of you but I don't miss you. 😆
900p it doesn't look as bad it looks great
It's weird to think in all my years of being a cheapo, I've never stopped at 900p. I went from 640x480 (Radeon TNT, Nvidia NVS200, 8800 GTS), to 720p (HD 7870) to 1080p (RX 460 4gb, RX 480 "Red Devil", Mobile GTX 1660) and never really stopped anywhere in between.
I still play at 900p windowed on my 1080p monitor. I just prefer to be able to click on other things on my pc while I am playing (I.e., background youtube videos, discord, etc.).
Also keeps some games from locking down your whole system if they freeze.
@@Kryptic1046 Exactly! You cannot even open Task Manager to close the game if it is at fullscreen and becomes frozen and unresponsive - in this case it's not even possible to close it, nor to reach the desktop or any other opened applications!
I can remember when 800x600 was extravagant and 640x480 was the norm. Anyone seen my dentures?
When I started my proper foray into PC gaming, I started with a laptop that had a GT540M, but that had its own caveats and I was able to get a laptop with a GTX 850M DDR3 variant, but the screen that came with it was 1366x768 which offset the lower bandwidth vs the GDDR5 variant. It held fast for the longest time.
When I got an actual PC, I was able to score a B Grade GTX 960 4GB for cheap, and found a decent 900p monitor, which ensured that I got more performance. It wasn't until I moved to the GTX 1060 is where I finally aimed for 1080p... I'm now on an RTX 3060 Ti, still at 1080p, but happy with what I got
I build very cheap systems and some times a 900p monitor will get you into the game where a 1080 is out side the budjet. You save on the screen and get good FPS in games
I played at 768p cause back in the day my gaming laptop had that display and I didn’t have enough money to buy a 1080p monitor and the display provided a good experience
I'm currently playing all my games on ultra settings at 1366x768 using a Sapphire Nitro+ RX 580. Prior to that, I had been using an Asrock RX 550 2GB, which wasn't quite up to par anymore
Humble gaming, this is my ninja way.
My first gaming PC is at 1360 x 768 resolution using Toshiba brand monitor if Im not mistaken back on 2004ish 😅
Played Elden Ring in 900p low on my 5700g using igpu because it gave me 40-50 fps consistently and 1080p was 25-30. 900p is really not that bad considering that A LOT of more demanding games were rendered in 900p or sometimes even lower on ps4
For me this is the sweet spot for playing Cyberpunk 2077 on my 2080ti in 2023 (RT overdrive)
Very useful, thank you.
Yeah, gains from lowering the resolution were a lot less than Id have expected. Really goes to show that in a LOT of games the GPU load isnt just dictated by physically drawing pixels, but a lot of other stuff as well. Its a bit like trying to cut down cooking time of your pasta by cooking less pasta.
G'day Random,
"The difference between 17 & 19 doesn't sound like much but here in the UK it's the difference between getting served in a pub & not" 😂Yeah same down here in Australia
🤔with the price of everthing going up over the last few years I hope 900p still gets you a shout🍻 instead of needing 1080p. While UK viewers shoud get this I am sure this joke will not make cents to Americans.
Remember back playing FONV in 900p
Man the Ex-Girlfriend burn, that came out of nowhere 😂 not what I expected from you, spat out my tea. Hilarious
900p is a good nesting spot for 4gb card now.
To hold out until you can get better.
Your jokes are so good man
Currently using a HP 2009m that I've had since 2009. A 900p monitor that can be OCed to 85hz. It helps me get the most out of my 1660 Super with AAA titles
I was using 5700G's Vega7 with 1360x768 at crypto crisis. Very decent thing 😊
I remember having to knock games down to 800×600 😀
finally thank you. showing 900p some love
More and more GPUs are going to need to be DX12 Ultra for different games to get a better experience.
The good news is that for people that have ANY money kicking around AMD RDNA 2 GPUs have been dirt cheap and in not too long the 7600 is going to be in the range of $220 USD which is honestly an AMAZING deal for the performance that GPU has, along with 8GB VRAM.
I games at a 900p a lot during the great graphics card shortage when I was relying on 5600g integrated graphics. Now I have a 3060ti so that doesn't need to happen.
all those jokes back to back sound like a tragic experience
Uses to play on 800x600 with 8400gs - great times.
I started gaming at an age and time where I started at 480p on my Nintendo Wii and PS2 (which ran games at variable resolutions approximate to 480p), then switched instantly to 1080p (my prebuilt ACER pc from 2014, and a PS3 (I think the PS3 was 1080p).
Although, I did run some games at 900p back when I was on my i5-4440 integrated graphics 😬
My laptop is 900p, which surprisingly still looks alright even next to my desktop running a 1440p ultrawide
Also that 1440p ultrawide may seem pretty good today, but I don't plan on upgrading it until way after it's the 900p of the future, assuming it still works then
That laptop's screen is a bit smaller, so those pixels are packed much tighter resulting in a decent display. It's all about the pixel density...
PPI is probably almost the same vs your 1440p monitor
Whenever I have to play at 30fps, I bring out the controller. Being able to pan the camera more slowly helps keep more clarity :P
There are so few games in modern benchmarking videos that I want to play at ANY resolution tbh, and even low end new cards can 1440 stuff like Sunbreak with good frames. I was on a 750Ti for ages and when I finally moved to an RX580 I found it hard to even use the headroom. I feel like I'm good for a while on my 6600 now. I scarcely want to play anything more demanding than DQ Builders 2.
I'd rather work a long hospital shift than play most modern games TBH.
900p is still my preferred resolution. Of course, the HP w1907 I use is a 1440x900 monitor (16:10 is soooo much better than 16:9), so there's no point using anything higher, for the most part (other than 1080p settings for videos, of course). :)
I have an HP W1907 1440x900 monitor that i use for old PCs that can't handle either. It also matches the look of my i5-11400 HP sleeper.
I played at 900p on a r9 280x, and it was perfect for me. A lot of the games I played was at 60fps 😎. I managed sometimes to get warzone 1 running at 50-60fps
I got into pc gaming a while ago, and i borrowed a TN 1440x900 monitor from my sister, and kept him about 6 years. 6 very happy long years. That was all i got, paired with an msi gtx 670, that thing was a beast. I played battlefield 3 night and day with that setup, and BF4 too. Now that i am playing constantly in quad hd, nvidia say to me that i must use dlss and frame generation to get better frames in the new gpus. Oh boy, it was a great time playing under 1080p, but i will never go down this resolution ever again, even with upscaling. Maybe if i played in 4k, i would use. But naaah. Seems like im back to 2013
Back when I had my first pc (Pentium G4560 + GTX 1050 2Gb) I played at 900p a lot.
This was the resolution I played most games at on my 8800GS back in 2009/2010. The 384MB RAM wasn't quite enough for Modern Warfare 2 (the original one from 2009!) to run at a locked 60fps. Good times. It looks decent on a 1080p display too.
There’s so many dirt cheap new TV’s (32-42” roku types >$150 that are tuned for movies) that are coming out at native 720/768p I was curious how that would look like for retro gaming, or low end graphics cards.
Before upgrading I would try 900p on 1080p but it looks toooo blurry imo. I’m still curious on how it would look like on a native res panel. No good videos on that subject though.
I had a 32 inch 768p TV for a while and the picture was fine, as long as you gave it some distance(as you should when using it as a TV). As long as you can keep the distance when using it as a PC monitor(like a couch PC) it should still be fine. I'd avoid sticking it on a desk at which you sit, though. You would very likely notice a fair bit of pixelation in that kind of setup.
That case reminds me of old school computers for some reason (they were the at the time new computers)
Card still plays esport title pretty well
I found a 1440x900 screen outside my last job one day and it works decently well. I'm gonna pair it with an old desktop I'm upgrading for a mid-range gaming PC I'll sell or give away.
That ex girlfriend remark is one of the reasons i'm a subscriber! Keep it up
😂😁
i play at 900p. my 2200g doesn't have the bandwidth (i guess) to push 1080p and 900p gives a decent boost. i've seen it going from 30fps at 1080p to 50fps at 900p in some game i can't remember now. kingdom come deliverance comes to mind because it plays perfectly on this little thing.
I bring resolution down to 720p with dlss quality/performance on an rtx 3050 laptop gpu with select titles.
I will say, dlss quality at 720p makes the image look like 1080p.
900p was a sweet spot for the game consoles like the Xbox One console series.
You know in a way quite a few of us are rendering at 960p today, which isn't too far off. This is the DLSS/FSR Quality target for 1440p output.
5:09 They stole the Mystery Machine. Can't have shit in Night City.
As a 900p enthusiast, I can confirm that 900p is best way to game. 💀
I still use a 900p 75hz monitor. I have an rx5700 and ryzen 2600. I usually turn down most graphical effects too since I find them distracting. I'm fairly certain that at this point, my CPU is struggling to keep up since I'm not taxing my GPU very hard. I get awful 1% lows which give noticeably stutters.
My 3rd PC from spare parts have GTX 1050 2gb version(128bit) with R3 1200AF, what I bought when I already have Radeon 7950 (384bit memory bus)... I was surprised how good it runs Witcher 3 Med-High settings (50-65FPS) compare to 7950 (40-45FPS with AMD-FX 8350 and 1866Memory) and yes both cards run in 900p resolution. When I testing battlefield 1 on medium settings I dropped resolution to 900p from FHD and it give me extra 10-15FPS, now it's CPU bound, but runs pretty well 55 FPS drops and 80 average. Main problem with lowering resolution on non native monitors it's gamma correction and details loss. I have much better hardware, but I always want to see how it will run on something like this, check optimization and squeeze every fps's.
I remember back when i had that old crt, I used to minimize the resolution to 768p. It was horrendous but at the same time, acceptable considering what I had. Today, turning resolution down isn't something people take into consideration. Reducing texture, aa and other types of quality settings are considered rather than lowering the resolution. 900p is an excellent choice considering 1050 and 3 gb vram. A lot of older cards could (and should) be used in this way other than straight away replacing the hardware.
P.S. The potato roast was awesome (and the ex-girlfriend one too)
U could have included an overclock too. with a higher power limit, a bit more core voltage and core mhz and memory mhz.
i like the little jokes, keep them coming 😊
Man these jokes are on point, it's also super interesting as my gaming laptop from 2017 has a gtx 1050 ti
I;ve got a 1050ti(4gbRam), with Ryzen 3 1200 and 16gb of ddr4 @ 3200mhz
I play two games, GTA Online, and Fallout76. High textures, most effects on/high (or near high),
Good smooth gameplay 30-60fps. 720p (on a 4k Monitor via displayport ( i dunno what version))
720p will always be my favourite budget resolution. 900p is an in between that for me normally isn't worth it unless I really have performance to spare, but at that point would make a bit of effort to turn things down a bit and go for 1080p.
How does RDR2 run so much better than Jedi Survivor while looking so much better?
That game still needs 6 months to be fixed.
I'm stuck with my 1600x1200 dell monitor for years but it doesn't suck that much tbh
900p resolution is still a sweet spot for lower-end PC graphics cards such as "-50" series (GTX 1050, GTX 1650 etc.) for Nvidia & "-500" series (RX 5500, RX 6500) for AMD. I haven't seen PC handheld devices that have a 1600 x 1000 screen (16 by 10) because that resolution will strike a nice balance between graphics, performance & battery life. Imagine Steam Deck 2 with a 1000p 16 by 10 screen or Switch Pro with 900p in handheld mode
I still have a 1600x900 display down in the basement.
God I was spoiled - I never even realised that people turned down their resolution in games, after building my first custom computer (as opposed to prebuilt) using the Q6600 and 8800 GTX I've always just upgraded whenever max resolution wasn't smooth anymore, so I am very glad for the perspective that you offer
Had a 22 inch monitor played at 900p pretty solid for that size with 1050ti
I think it's a bit of a shame 900p monitors (mostly) aren't around anymore. They are much more of a sweet spot for 18,5-21,5 inch panels than 720p is and the performance gain on older hardware really is pretty significant. And it always looks better to play on native resolution than to reduce it to something that doesn't really match the pixel distrubution of the panel.
I guess the bright side is that monitors nowadays are pretty sturdy and second hand market is pretty rich.
...Just thinking about it now, I haven't had a monitor die on me for the last 20 years or so, while I've seen so many TVs do just that for no apparent reason? What's up with that...
I just use my 22" 1080p monitor at 900p windowed
@@potatoes5829 That is a solution for sure, but not exactly best for immersion. I play some games like that, but in some it would be jarring. ;)
1080p is phasing out too for 1440p. Hopefully soon both phase out and 4k becomes the norm. Graphics cards and 4k refresh rates have gotten to the point where 4k gaming is possible.
because the price of making a 1080p panel is so cheap, and 720p panels for laptops is more viable than also adding 900p panels anymore.
@@humble2246 I'm not sure if we'll in foreseeable future get to the point where affordable parts make gaming in 4k fully viable, but the nice part of 4k screens is that you can set then to 1080p while not going against the pixel layout. ;)
maybe my eyes are getting worse but to me, 900p scaled up to a native 1080p monitor looks indistinguishable frkm native. and performs a lot better
My main monitor is a native 900p and finally on Prime Days i'll get some 1440p with some good deal so hope my RX6000 handle 1440p with FSR
Hey mate! What motherboard are you using with that 12400f?
Great video as always! :)
Funny. I just bought a used workstation with a T2000 GPU and this pops up. I'll be utilizing this method once again, and probably won't even notice a difference on the 15.6" screen.