hi all. i'm helping my family find a great LCD TV as a christmas gift. we have decided to go with the samsung LN-T5271F from amazon.com because they currently have free white-glove shipping with samsung TVs. i'm also looking at the 5 year RepairMaster warranty. from what i've seen around here...
that's the most idiotic thing i've ever heard on these boards.
color reproduction? VA wins.
viewing angles? VA STILL wins.
not to mention that no manufacturer is going to make a monitor with a TN panel built well enough to not have any backlight bleed.
i'll take my dell gay-VA panel over...
you must be doing something wrong then. i can easily support 1920x1080 through vga AND dvi. you have to select 1:1 in the service menu to get 1920x1080 through vga. that will not work with dvi though. my video card drivers are able to force 1:1 and i can achieve 1920x1080 through dvi simply by...
the 8800 will be able to handle 1920x1200 gaming. a second 8800 will only help in terms of upgrading. get yourself a 24"...a 20-22" will leave you wanting more. i know it did for me. i now have a 2407 and it's amazing.
i had a bad experience with a viewsonic. the VX2035WM showed insane flickering at native resolution with any ATI card hooked up to it. at first i thought it was ATI's drivers, but thinking back, it had to be the damn monitor. the card worked perfectly in my friend's computer and another friend...
i have it and although i dont have another 24"er to compare it to, this thing is frigging amazing for gaming. i don't notice any ghosting at all, input lag again not noticeable. i absolutely love the resolution for the size. the pixel pitch is pretty good. gaming is insane on this thing. i just...
before you do anything, see if you can't go in a store and maybe ask an associate to run a complex demonstration on one or a few of the LCD's and see if it doesnt have the sickening effects