Can I Increase the Resolution on my AMD Radeon HD 7770?

[jcman01]

I just bought a new Dell with an AMD Radeon HD 7770. I am not overwhelmed with the difference between my old PC and this. I thought I was getting a high-end video card. I had 1600 x 1200 resolution on my old one, so I sort of feel like I over-paid.

Is there any way I can improve the resolution on this card? I don't do any gaming, but I was hoping the visual display would be better.

I have a Samsung 2ms 27" monitor.

 

[yialanliu]

I just bought a new Dell with an AMD Radeon HD 7770. I am not overwhelmed with the difference between my old PC and this. I thought I was getting a high-end video card. I had 1600 x 1200 resolution on my old one, so I sort of feel like I over-paid.

Is there any way I can improve the resolution on this card? I don't do any gaming, but I was hoping the visual display would be better.

I have a Samsung 2ms 27" monitor.

Your max resolution is set by your monitor, not the graphics card...so no even with a 99999999 dollar card, you would still be outputting at 1600x1200 if that's the monitor output...

 

[jcman01]

My monitor is a Samsung P2770H. I guess for me the card is high-end since I've never splurged on one. But I guess it isn't, relatively speaking.

 

[yialanliu]

That's interesting because that's a 1080p monitor, so you can't output 1600x1200...

Also, please note that 1080p at low and 1080p at ultra have the same resolution, but that doesn't mean that it looks the same. So your old computer might have been playing low/med and now you can play high on most games at 1080p, that's the difference you'll see.

 

[Kari]

well it says here http://www.samsung.com/ca/consumer/office/monitors/lcd/LS27EFHKUV/ZC
that P2770H has '1920 x 1080 Display Resolution'
so you can't go higher than that... and you really shouldn't use 1600*1200 res anyways

and as others have said already this has nothing to do with the craphics card. (the card itself supports way higher resolutions)

 

[jcman01]

well it says here http://www.samsung.com/ca/consumer/office/monitors/lcd/LS27EFHKUV/ZC
that P2770H has '1920 x 1080 Display Resolution'
so you can't go higher than that... and you really shouldn't use 1600*1200 res anyways

and as others have said already this has nothing to do with the craphics card. (the card itself supports way higher resolutions)

I am going through my monitor settings now, and I don't see where I can change it from 1600x1200. I don't see the option on this tedious menuing system.

 

[Kari]

What is making you think you're at 1600x1200? That monitor can't display 1600x1200.

it could scale it to fit the screen I suppose... would be blurry though
and unlikely