External computer screen

[Crazy_Dead]

Heya.

Decided to buy a new screen to my laptop, cause of the small screen. Dad told my cant just buy a new screen, need to check how high resolution my graphics card can handle.
Would love to know how to google this, or if I could get a direct answer.

Thanks guys

 

[Slapshot136]

pretty much any graphics card will be able to push 2560 x 1600 - which means you can get any screen you want, but it won't be able to do that while playing games/etc. without being really slow - but that is why games have their own settings, and you can lower the resolution for the game

if you want a better answer then "pretty much any", you will need to post your laptop and/or graphics card

a more important issue would be what kind of output does your laptop have (VGA, DVI, hdmi?), but most monitors will have all of those as well

 

[UndeadDragon]

As long as your laptop has the right output, you should be fine.

I often just plug my laptop into my TV screen (through HDMI) and that works perfectly.

 

[Crazy_Dead]

Lovely, thanks.