Large monitor

I am looking to buy a new monitor. I was going to go for 28 inch or bigger. I have an nvidia GTX295 graphics card. However a mate reckons if I go for a big monitor I will struggle to get any good games play on a high resolution say 1920×1080 with full game specs on. Would you agree?

GTX 295 is pretty much top of the line (only SLI GTX 285s beat it), so it will handle 1920x1080 with flying colors.  Not everything will be able to do max AA and AF (Crysis for example) but for the most part 1920x1080 will be easy as pie on a GTX 295.

Even 2048 x 1152 will be fine on that card, as it's barely any more pixels.  As for even higher, 2560 x 1600 gives a lot of things trouble...  but a freaking GTX 295 is still more than capable of throwing it's weight around there.

Unless you wanna Crossfire Radeon 5870s next month you have the best graphics settup dude, don't worry about res.

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To the OP, the GTX 295 will run whatever you throw at it, & run it well. I have a LG 30" Monitor & the GTX 295 runs all my games smooth as butter.

have you thought about using a TV? sure you might only be able to run a res of 1080, but it will be far cheaper than a 30" lcd monitor

Not if he gets a Hans-G from newegg.  I think it was $300 for a 28" monitor.  However, I don't know much about the quality of the monitor.