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If you had asked this question a week ago I would have said yes but I got my Dell s2240m last Monday. It's a nice upgrade from the CRT I was using but then I was using a cheap 17" shadow mask tech CRT rather than the nicer aperture grill tech that trinitron tube monitors use. I had a couple...

My S2240m arrived yesterday. I had a bad impression when I first looked at it. Images and film clips I'd play looked bad. The colors just looked...'off' and things looked oversaturated or maybe even a bit blurry. At first I thought it was the fact that I have it hooked up by VGA(Needs a DVI-D...

Just ordered an s2240m this morning. Still on a 17" (c.16" viewable area) CRT right now so this should be quite the upgrade for me. going from 1280x960 not a big jump in vertical res. but one and a half time more horizontal resolution should be NICE.

An ATI x800 pro right now with a 'new' gts 450 on the way from geeks.com that I saw in hotdeals section for a steal last week. A tad behind the times I know...:p Upgrading from 7 year old video card tech to ... what...about 3 year old tech? What can I say...I'm a cheap bastard...probably not...

Newegg has the S2240M for like $30 less than Dell's own site. Can't figure how they can undercut Dell on one of their own monitors. lol. (Edit: I see other Dell monitors cheaper on newegg too). Does Dell offer better warranty/guarantee when ordering direct from them?

Why are you making a post about this as if it's some sort of super deal? There's a 1gig hd4870 for $125 after MIR on newegg too: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150436

I'm thinking about getting this one too because it looks like an even better card at $85 after rebate.

In just the past few days I finished a new build(my first build in fact). I had(well....still have as a 'backup' box) a Dell Dimension 8400 with 3.2 ghz P4, generic Dell Motherboard, 2 gig 533mhz Ram, 160gig generic slow ass hard drive, x800pro video card, 350 watt PSU. I'm now typing this on a...

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Ok Thanks. I'll wait until I get the motherboard in and plugged in before trying it out again.

Hi. I just put the Antec earthwatts ea500 power supply into my centurion coolermaster case. I plugged it into the wall and turned it on and nothing happened(ie. the fan in the power supply did not go on). Does this mean the power supply is bad or is the power supply not supposed to turn on it's...

If I were you I would e-mail the manufacturer of the motherboard you plan on buying and ask if that new cpu is expected to boot up properly in that motherboard without needing a bios update first. That way you'll have a response in writing from the manufacturer that you can remind them of if...

Hi. I'm not sure how dead set you are on that April 28th purchase date, but apparently a new core 2 cpu called an e7200 is coming out in May. From what I understand, this is the first of the e7000 series that are the wolfdale replacement for the conroe e4x00 series. I know there is ALWAYS...

You'll be fine upgrading to an 8600gt with that power supply. The 8600gt has such a low power draw that it doesn't even require that separate connection directly to the power supply, it gets all it needs through the PCI-E slot.

I have heard very good things about the Corsair PSU's but if you want to save a little money get it from here: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=373100 [rebate expires 5/13]

When video card manufacturers say that you need a given minimum wattage PSU to run their card, they are assuming that you have other components in your computer. No current video card that I've ever heard of actaully uses 450 watts by themselves. They say minimum 450 watt PSU knowing that the...

My headline pretty much says it. Are there any good single programs that are adept at designing pages for both print and web design. I have been looking at Microsoft Publisher 2003(that should give you an idea of my price range ie. under $200). Or is it best(cheaper and greater functionality) to...

Despite saying it was a great monitor, I see you don't have it any more. Was anything wrong with it, that made you return it? I am very interested in this one. It appears to have nice specs for a good price(jr.com has them for $530 including shipping)

You might want to take a look at the viewsonic VP2030b Dell carries it, and its newer and has better specs than Dell's own 1600x1200 2001fp monitor. This vp2030b seems to be a 20.1" 1600x1200 version of viewsonic's 19" vp930b that seems to be fairly well regarded. And I keep hearing Dell has...

I ordered one of these viewsonic vp2030b monitors from Dell on November 16th(they had best price and 21 day satisfaction guarantee policy). I wish I could tell you how it is, but unfortunately I still don't have it yet. The initial ship date was supposed to be December 5th, then, I got notified...

If all you want is height adjustment, the cheapest solution would be to put a book(or something similar) under the existing stand. But there is something available if you want height adjustment, tilt, swivel and rotate into portrait view capability...

Yes, my mobo has 2x512mb sticks now. I'm thinking of just getting 1 more 512mb for now as 1.5 gb should be all I need.

My Dimension 8400 currently has 1GB of 400mhz PC2-3200 DDR2 memory. I am planning to do an upgrade to either 1.5gb or 2gb of memory(Battlefield 2). I know that increasing the amount of memory should help performance, but is there any noticable speed increase in games between the 400mhz...

For a gaming rig you may want to try the Samsung 940b. There have been positive reviews for it, including a thread on this forum: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=974748My Samsung 940b review Here's another one that may be worth taking a look at, The ViewSonic VX922 19" LCD The...

Well, I did it. I ordered a VP2030b from Dell. On paper, it looks exactly like what I want in an LCD monitor; fast response time, high contrast ratio, high resolution, small dot pitch. And if the reality of it ends up not being as good as it looks on paper, well, thats why I ordered it from...

Anyone seen/heard of the Viewsonic VP2030b or VP2130b yet? 20" and 21" monitors respectively with 1600x1200 resolution, 8ms(gtg) 16 ms(bwb) response time, 1000:1 contrast ratio. I am looking for a 20" or 21" 1600x1200 res. monitor and it looks like a couple more choices just came out. And...

Amen, man!! This seems like such a sucky time in general to be trying to upgrade to a nicer computer monitor. The top manufacturers stopped making the high quality diamontron and trinitron tube CRT's a year or 2 ago and LCD's still have some maturing to do to be perfected. Consumer = screwed [at...

Ironoutrigger, THANK YOU for your mini-review. Overall, it sounds like a good monitor. But I am curious if you can think of any reason that there'd be "barely noticeable" ghosting in the FEAR demo, and yet bad ghosting in Guild Wars and Final Fantasy. I'm not very familiar with these...

Ironoutrigger, have you gotten the monitor yet? If so, how is it? I'd like to know this as well.

I'm looking into possibly getting a Samsung 214T soon(21"/1600x1200/8ms/900:1 Contrast ratio). Unfortunately they don't seem to be in stock most places right now and there are hardly any professional/user reviews for them at this point. I guess many people would say a Dell 2001fp...

Yes I enabled cleartype. It just seemed to bold the text - but it didn't make it look any better. Funny, cleartype is supposed to be for making text on LCD's look better. It did squat for the text on the 19" LCD I tried but it smoothed out my 17" CRT's text beautifully :D

I can only tell you my experience Mach3. I had bought a Viewsonic vp930b from zipzoomfly.com a couple weeks ago. I heard VERY good things about this monitors predecessor(the vp191b) on Tom's Hardware, behardware.com and others. In many ways I was quite happy with it. With it's 1000:1 contrast...

So how is the 214T? I'm very interested in this monitor but no user reviews, let alone professional reviews, anywhere yet. Any feedback so far?

I realize this thread was originally about the 244T but since you actually have a 214T, details, details man! How does it look? How does text look, how about graphics? I recently bought a 19" LCD (viewsonic vp930b) but I find text to be too "jaggy" at 0.294 dot pitch on a 19" LCD(even with...

I have been researching LCD montiors for the past month or two with an eye toward upgrading from my current POS 17" CRT monitor that I've had for 3 years now. I just ordered a viewsonic vp930b from zipzoomfly.com TODAY and I should have it Thursday. This one is the replacement/successor to the...

Thanks for the suggestion. I have checked out widescreengamingforum.com and it was very well done. Unfortunately I am pretty much only into online multiplayer gaming(e.g. battlefiled 1942 and Battlefield 2). It sucks that the online anti-cheat software(punkbuster) from what I have read...

I am looking at this montior very seriously. I am suffering with a 3 year old 17" CRT right now(max res. of 1280x1024 at max of 60hz refresh - ouch, my eyes!) At first I was looking into 19" LCD's. But I'm starting to think I may want better than 1280x1024 at some point. I looked into the...