This is confusing. If your monitor has HDMI, it can't be an old model. All HDMI capable monitor have a native resolution which is reported to the graphics card and then the card set that resolution. No scaling needed.
Unless, and that's what I suppose, your monitor somehow changes the viewing area. Perhaps you should to reset it to defaults.
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