I would but my monitor is LCD so it would be scaled evil-ly. Plus, it's shaped more squarish for the 1280x1024 resolution (as are most 17" lcd's that are 1280x1024). On my old crt, when I would game I would use 2048x1536 but on desktop (for no need to use Anti-Aliasing - only Anisotropic Filtering which my 9800 Pro has an easy time doing), I would use 1280x960. Looked great in my opinion for text.