LCD widescreen yes/no?

wenmo · Post by **wenmo** » Sun May 07, 2006 9:10 pm

I am looking i buying a 20inch 8ms LCD widescreen. Acer, benq or other. not sure if i should instead buy a 19inch benq std. can anyone recomend widescreen or triditional, also i have seen screens called trublue or something like that all glass, shinny looks good but not sure.

wenmo

wabz · Post by **wabz** » Sun May 07, 2006 9:22 pm

I recently bought two 19" Samsung 940Bs, and I think whether you want dual screens or one widescreen depends pretty much only on what you do with your computer. I do a lot of coding, browsing, email, wasting time (aka irc) etc and therefore really like the two monitor approach - being able to maximise two apps at once and having two desktops visible at once is a nice way to work (maybe you can get a widescreen to work this way?). Widescreen might be better for.... movies? Gaming perhaps?

wabbit · Post by **wabbit** » Sun May 07, 2006 9:29 pm

wenmo, Im looking @ the Dell widescreen lcds. From the reviews & from people that use them everyday there the go for me.

Dell just ended a $300 cash off deal on the 20" monitor. I'm waiting for the 24" to have the same sort of deal

bertie · Post by **bertie** » Sun May 07, 2006 9:44 pm

Whirlpool just finished a group buy of the 24"

See here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... m?t=309888

Last I heard the price was around $1450 (inc GST + Delivery).

I'd suggest staying tune there and waiting for the next group buy - I'm sure there will be more of them...

spoonsports · Post by **spoonsports** » Sun May 07, 2006 10:57 pm

that's one expensive monitor.

Pinger$ · Post by **Pinger$** » Sun May 07, 2006 11:43 pm

A friend of mine bought a Dell 24" and didn't wait for the bulk-buy, so she ended up paying about $1350 for it (I think). She finally got it 4 weeks after ordering it.... it was only meant to take 1 week.

It's a great looking monitor.... Nice high native resolution which is great for desktop and gaming. Most games seem to work on it. I wouldn't buy anything less than a 7900GT (about $500) for it. Need something with a fair bit of grunt to render 1920x1200. If you're spending $1500 on a display, you shouldn't be too fussed about a $500 video card though

The only bad thing is that 1 dead pixel showed up within an hour of use.

She's debating whether or not to return it... whether it's worth the hassle. It's not in the middle and it's a dark one... but still annoying.

Given the cash, I'd buy one

wild · Post by **wild** » Mon May 08, 2006 12:24 am

Pinger$ wrote:The only bad thing is that 1 dead pixel showed up within an hour of use.
She's debating whether or not to return it... whether it's worth the hassle. It's not in the middle and it's a dark one... but still annoying.

Not worth it. I've got 2 LCDs, one has a single stuck blue pixel, the other has a group of about 3 dead pixels in the same spot. Annoying, sure, but after a week or two you don't notice it. Kind of like the 2 thin lines across Trinitron CRT monitors and TVs.

Post by **Shonky** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:26 pm

wild wrote:2 thin lines across Trinitron CRT monitors

What thin lines??? Oh you mean those ones.

I love my 21' Trinitron. Not replacing it until its dead no matter how cheap lcds get.

wabbit · Post by **wabbit** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:02 pm

SHoNKY wrote:
wild wrote:2 thin lines across Trinitron CRT monitors
What thin lines??? Oh you mean those ones.

I love my 21' Trinitron. Not replacing it until its dead no matter how cheap lcds get.

Same deal for me (loved the massive res) but the Trinitron is nearly dead... im on a 17" lcd atm not what i want tho

Post by **Cutter** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:10 pm

Dell 24" $1274.00 less 5% for online orders.

I got mine lastweek, fantastic.

Threeps · Post by **Threeps** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:29 pm

The Dell 24" certainly grab the rave reviews. If I had $1400 for a monitor, that would definitely be the one for me. Since I don't, I went and grabbed a 19" Chi Mei widescreen, it's a 1440 X 900 native resolution, 8ms display. It blows away my old crappy 19"CRT with ease. It was only $350 too which is pretty damn good. I've only had it a couple of days, but no pixels gone bye byes yet.

wabbit · Post by **wabbit** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:43 pm

Cutter wrote:Dell 24" $1274.00 less 5% for online orders.

I got mine lastweek, fantastic.

Waahoo... another comment in my favor

kwijibo · Post by **kwijibo** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:48 pm

I have the dell 24" widescreen. Its incredibly good. I only have a 6600gt vid car but it handles it fine. I run LFS in 1600x1200 (or there abouts) and its struggles a bit with lotsa cars on screen, but i put that down to my cpu (1700+)

Pinger$ · Post by **Pinger$** » Mon May 08, 2006 7:09 pm

Why not run it in native res? or not enough video ram?

Sarsippius · Post by **Sarsippius** » Mon May 08, 2006 7:53 pm

If you watch a lot of tv or movies then I'd say definately get a widescreen, it makes a huge difference to widescreen content and LFS is a lot better in widescreen as well.

I've got the 20" Dell and whilst I'm happy with it (colour reproduction and brightness is fantastic) it does have a fair amount of backlight bleed. I can easily live with it but for some people it would be a deal breaker and from what I've read online it's quite common and replacing it might not help, the next one you get might be the same.
As far as I know the 24" doesn't have the same problem.

In the end though I'm happy I bought it, it is 10x better than my old 19" CRT in every way making the problems it has seem minor. Widescreen is definately the way to go

Post by **Shonky** » Mon May 08, 2006 10:50 pm

Sarsi, a mate the other day was telling me about the bleed on the 20" Dell, he said he read somewhere that it can be fixed. If yours is out of warranty it might be worth investigating, something about placing some black tape across the backlight at the botton of the panel behind the bezel he reckons does the trick. Could all be BS though.

Doso · Post by **Doso** » Tue May 09, 2006 1:17 am

Cutter wrote:Dell 24" $1274.00 less 5% for online orders.

I got mine lastweek, fantastic.

got mine 2 weeks ago (mmm tax right off for students :-) )

i went fom a dual scren setup (1 x19 and 1 x17 inch crt ) to a single 24 inch dell and its sexy

ohhj main reasn forr getting a $1300 screen LFS @ 1920 x 1200 = very very COOL!!!!!!!

i just need some more money to replace this fucking $5 keyboard

SE1Z · Post by **SE1Z** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:06 am

Doso wrote: ohhj main reasn forr getting a $1300 screen LFS @ 1920 x 1200 = very very COOL!!!!!!!
i just need some more money to replace this fucking $5 keyboard

Quote of the day!

9ra55h0ppaH · Post by **9ra55h0ppaH** » Tue May 09, 2006 10:07 am

Doso wrote:i just need some more money to replace this fucking $5 keyboard

you have those $5 keyboards for a reason dont you doso?

Vilante · Post by **Vilante** » Tue May 09, 2006 10:14 am

You need to buy a decent one and swap it out for those romantic occasions

kwijibo · Post by **kwijibo** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:23 pm

Pinger$ wrote:Why not run it in native res? or not enough video ram?

I dunno if you were referring to me or not there.. but I just assumed it would run even worse in a higher resolution. Is that not the case?

My 6600GT has 128MB ram.. but windows is running in 1900xwhatever the native is

Pinger$ · Post by **Pinger$** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:51 am

Yeah, I was.... LFS isn't 'too' video card intensive, so bumping the res up shouldn't hurt it too much. Just make sure you turn your AA (and AF) back a bit (or off if you have to).

It'll look nicer than 1600x1200 all stretched... rule of thumb is to at least pick a res at the same aspect ratio. 1600x1200 = 4:3 1920x1200 = 8:5
1280x800 is an 8:5 ratio that you may be able to select, which shouldn't look too bad. Worth a shot anyway.
Sometimes the rules don't apply tho, it's whatever works best for you

kwijibo · Post by **kwijibo** » Wed May 10, 2006 10:09 am

Oh.. i thought i was running in the right aspect ratio, doh! I meant to have it on 1680x1050, which is what i've selected now. thats the lowest 8:5 ratio I could find.

Since I thought I WAS in that ratio.. I thought you were saying that it'd run smoother in a higher res just because its 'native' - didnt make much sense to me

Should be all good now. Thanks

edit: damn, the road is so thin now haha

wabbit · Post by **wabbit** » Wed May 10, 2006 4:29 pm

kwijibo: Are you able to post a pic/send me one of what LFS looks like in widescreen

Post by **Cutter** » Wed May 10, 2006 4:50 pm

http://arse.norbtech.com/phpBB/viewtopi ... 0466#70466

We were discussing posting your racing rig / setup in another thread, so maybe the screen screenshot can go here as well.