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I am so fucking confused!
Im looking at monitors now – its sooo complicated. At first I was all excited about getting a 22″ monitor – but now that ive looked into it there seem to be people saying that they arent as good as 20″ ones for a variety of reasons.
I also assumed that the faster the better – yet there are articles saying that any monitors below 8ms suffer from image issues due to the overdrive pacing they use.
I dont know what to do 🙁
Saw an amazind deal on the Dell 24″ beast – but although it would be amazing for dvds I guess it would be useless for games 🙁
http://www.hotukdeals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38063
(now even cheaper on overclockers.)
Help!
Och Doc ye crazy Scotsman!
Here’s the one I’ll be getting which has had very good reviews as a great all rounder:
LG 20″ LCD L204WT TCO-03 Black/Silver 1680×1050, 5ms, 2000:1, DVI/VGA
The price has also dropped from £225 inc VAT to £189. It’s currently the PC Pro ‘Best Buy’ monitor in the 19″+ range.
Wow – that does actually look perfect!
You are a gent Neon – i think you have cracked it… unless anyone else comes up with a better idea 🙂
Pah, that’s not a projector, THIs is a projector:
write up:
http://www.hometheatermag.com/frontprojectors/1006infocusin76/
Oh, it’s hi-def as well, 36″ image form 3 foot away apparently. I want one, and so should you all, much better than a TV, especially if you move house, no lugging a great big TV round.
In fact anyone with a Hi def TV are now officially losers, as this beats them all!
Shut up you’re all ghey
This is the bussiness! :
http://www.alternate.es/html/productDetails.html?artno=EL1R05the lilly pad at the back will have you cumming in your pants
click on the 360 view 😉@xdc the doc wrote:
Saw an amazind deal on the Dell 24″ beast – but although it would be amazing for dvds I guess it would be useless for games 🙁
Help!
I have that beast, nothing wrong with it for gaming, refresh-rate of 8 ms, nice piece of real-estate
Lol at the projector – 1300 quid? I aint made of money!
Is it actually practicle to use a projector as their only monitor? I dont know how you could set it up TBH.
POD – dont you get some ghosting playing games on the 24″dell? Its native resolution is a bit much for most modern games as well I would have thought.
Hey doc,
For some reason, clicking on that link you gave goes to a higher price than advertised – which overclockers is cheaper than.
… innit
@TurksMeister wrote:
Hey doc,
For some reason, clicking on that link you gave goes to a higher price than advertised – which overclockers is cheaper than.
… innit
ive got the overlclockers is currently cheaper bit on brackets below you loon!
Listen – this is important.
If some1 can tell me that that beast of a 24 inch will play modern games at a good fps without ghosting I would buy it!
Im dubious though – a lot of what I have read on the subject casts aspersions on just about all the current 22″monitors for gaming… its unlikely the 24″ would do any better. The so called improvements in latency being due to overdrive modules that fuck up the image quality… not to mention the very narrow viewing angles that plague them.
Is that wrong??
i think pharty has one and is very happy with it but you’d need to speak to him and i believe he is away for a while longer…..
@xdc the doc wrote:
If some1 can tell me that that beast of a 24 inch will play modern games at a good fps without ghosting I would buy it!
Im dubious though – a lot of what I have read on the subject casts aspersions on just about all the current 22″monitors for gaming… its unlikely the 24″ would do any better. The so called improvements in latency being due to overdrive modules that fuck up the image quality… not to mention the very narrow viewing angles that plague them.
Is that wrong??
Doc, the trouble with most reviews and reviewers is that they take into account too many pieces of kit. It’s like when Clarkson talks about how the latest Masseratti is a bit ‘lumpy’, but you know full well if you got a chance to drive it, it’d be the best car you ever sat in, but since the guys on Top Gear drive so many types of cars they become a bit spoiled.
Monitor reviews suffer in a similar way, like the reviews in what Hi Fi, you don’t know what you’re missing if you haven’t tried the best. For example £200 B&W speakers will do most of us very well, but a few folks will pick up on sound quality lacking from their £3000 Kef’s.
I doubt you’d have a problem with ghosting on a 24″ monitor, until you compared it to a top of the line 19″ monitor, particularly if you don’t play games that are just black and white. And as for viewing angles, most people I know sit in front of their monitor when they play, not 4 feet to the right 😉
The Dell that PoD has would be perfectly fine for gaming and all sorts of computing, and if size is important then you should go for it. Personally I’d stick with something slightly smaller, mainly because the res isn’t massively high, meaning that I can play games at it’s native res without having to turn down the detail level to something very low.
Myself, Pharty and some others have the Dell 24″ monitor.. Its 11ms not 8.. unless you mean a different one.. its the dogs danglies.. I dont have any ghosting issues.. I run a X1900XT on mine
Its very sexual 😀
*edit* i stopped being lazy and noticed the url posted.. We all have the latter version at 11ms… but still.. its truley a superb piece of kit!
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