What's the most limiting factor to resolution?

[Troncoso]

Just a quick question. I see all these people running like 1920xwhatever on their 22" screens. Mine is a 26" rated at 1366x786. With a better video card can that go higher? or is it that I'm using a vga cable? OR, is it because my monitor is an hdtv? my video card is a 5750, but will be a 6950 in a day or 2.

 

[voyagerfan99]

If that's the max resolution of the monitor, then it won't go any higher. If you wanted to run 1680x1050 you'd need to get a monitor that ran that.

 

[powerpack]

The resolution on LCD, DLP and Plasma is not as adjustable as on say a CRT. They have fixed pixel displays. The number is what is called "native resolution" Yours is 1366x768. You could display at lower in your case of course you would not want to. It will generally lower the quality because what is meant to fit in one pixel will have to fit into multiple pixels, interpolation.

 

[Nanobyte]

Theoretically there is no limit to resolution. However, there is not much point in going higher than the resolution of what you are viewing. Equipment (PC, GPU, monitor) you buy in stores generally increases in resolution as the change in media dictates and that is the effective limit.