forgive me if this is in the wrong category, but
Here's my question. The woman is out of town for a few days, and I'm feeling like leaving the sufficient 22" lcd monitor behind, and dragging my box to the 42" plasma to play some games. Question being, when I hook up to the plasma, the highest resolution my sys wants to output is 1024x768. That's using a standard vga cable, as I don't have an HDMI cable laying around. Obviously, 1024x768 doesn't look great on the big display...but being a 1080i display, shouldn't it be capable than more than this. Is the prob in the output I'm sending from the computer, or to which input i'm sending it on the television. Not knowing squat about home theater setup, I'd rather not run across town for a cable not knowing whether or not it will make a difference.
btw, the system i'm running is as follows
q6600@3.6ghz
2gb ddr2 pc6400
8800gt oc'd a bit
thanks in advance for any help
Here's my question. The woman is out of town for a few days, and I'm feeling like leaving the sufficient 22" lcd monitor behind, and dragging my box to the 42" plasma to play some games. Question being, when I hook up to the plasma, the highest resolution my sys wants to output is 1024x768. That's using a standard vga cable, as I don't have an HDMI cable laying around. Obviously, 1024x768 doesn't look great on the big display...but being a 1080i display, shouldn't it be capable than more than this. Is the prob in the output I'm sending from the computer, or to which input i'm sending it on the television. Not knowing squat about home theater setup, I'd rather not run across town for a cable not knowing whether or not it will make a difference.
btw, the system i'm running is as follows
q6600@3.6ghz
2gb ddr2 pc6400
8800gt oc'd a bit
thanks in advance for any help