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Advice about buying monitors
xShadow:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on August 25, 2010, 09:19:59 PM ---Your monitor sounds like it's 2nd hand. At least in the way that you describe it.
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It kind of is. It's a recertified product. I pay much less in exchange for having maybe a few things wrong with it. Go find the link sdedalus gave to it, and then read the reviews. You'll see what I mean.
Edit:
--- Quote from: nstgc on August 25, 2010, 09:04:41 PM ---how do you know how many hours a monitor has. I'd like to check mine.
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I just went into the monitor's options.
Edit2: Actually, I think I'll probably get a replacement. I want this thing to be perfect (and I found a third dead pixel; again, it's almost invisible, but... it's still there! *Quotes Gohan*)
nstgc:
How is the ghosting?
xShadow:
If you mean ghosting from gaming, I've played both League of Legends and Wolfenstein ET on this and I didn't see anything that bothered me.
I also played a little Dragon Age on it, and I played a few battles in it. I'm not 100% sure what ghosting looks like (all I know is that it's like a burned-in image, I guess? all I've seen it on is my friend's projector screen), but I didn't see anything wrong when I exited. Wolfenstein ET is also a pretty fast-paced game, and I didn't see anything wrong when I exited that, either. I guess there wasn't any ghosting? *Shrug*
Anyway, apparently Newegg charges return shipping. 40 dollars in this case? (wtf?)
So... I think I'm just going to keep it, because 3 dead pixels out of millions isn't really worth returning this monitor for (especially when I can't tell they're there). If something goes seriously wrong with it, I'll probably get a replacement but I think I can deal with this much.
nstgc:
I think I'll pay the extra $100 and get a ZR24W. 5ms (gtg), 1920x1200, 400 nits, 24", IPS...$400 :(
I added up my expenses as well as projected income. I think I can afford the Monitor. Also, I don't have to get a 5770. I could just get a 5670. It would be good enough.
xShadow:
--- Quote from: nstgc on August 27, 2010, 01:51:55 AM ---I think I'll pay the extra $100 and get a ZR24W. 5ms (gtg), 1920x1200, 400 nits, 24", IPS...$400 :(
I added up my expenses as well as projected income. I think I can afford the Monitor. Also, I don't have to get a 5770. I could just get a 5670. It would be good enough.
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That depends on what you need to do. I can tell you right now that playing Dragon Age on 1920x1200 with everything maxed out (aa, everything) pushes my 5850 to its very limits. As in, I lag a bit at some parts. So, I dunno how you'd do with that graphics card...
By the way, 400$ is 190$ more, not 100$ more... a bit of a difference, there.
All in all, dead pixels or not, I'd have to say I'm pretty satisfied with this thing. It looks amazing.
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