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NCX and company, Can explain a bit why you rate the Benq EW2740L over the Asus VN279Q? Is it because of Asus' QC issues? I initially bought the Samsung S27C750P 2 years ago based on your recommendations but was disappointed because I thought it would be a straight upgrade over the...

I'll try and take a picture later but for now here is a representation I made in paint. I'm using a little blue box propped underneath the monitor. I thought at first it might be wobbly but the weight of the monitor and stand keeps it stable.

Hey boys and girls I finally got my hands on this monitor! First the bad. THAT STAND! It's so obnoxious. I promise you one thing, whatever money samsung might have saved by not making it adjustable or vesa compatible they are losing it ten fold in the number of people returning this monitor. You...

NCX, can you talk a bit about how this monitor compares to the Samsung f2380mx? The colors and contrast were so delicious out of the box that I never forgot this monitor but ultimately I brought it back because of the unbearable ghosting. Is the ghosting really noticeable on the S27C750P? I'm...

Ya it is hot but it is within spec which is between 30-60 degrees. I agree about Crystal Disk Info. I love that program. Anyways the drive I got is indeed refurbished. My drive has 28,000 hours and the refurb one has 23,000 but the rest of the Smart data has been reset. I cloned my drive onto...

Thanks for the responses. The thing I find weird is how come the drive didn't re-allocate the bad sectors and how come it went from 9 to 4? Is it possible that they were just logical bad sectors and that a format could get rid of them? The drive runs really hot too. The day it crashed it was...

To make a long story short I was having lots of problems with my main 1tb WD caviar black drive. My main OS partition got corrupted and refused to boot into windows. I originally had 9 pending bad sectors then after running HDD regenerator I had 9 uncorrectable bad sectors and after running WD...

Except that not everybody has $400+ dollars to spend on a video card and the 7850 is the best card at $250 and overclocks to GTX 570/580 speeds.

I did not ignore specifics. I asked a question as I did not know the answer. Is that not the point of asking a question? I am glad to hear that. Another question for pree seeing as how you are price conscious and good with math, i'd value your opinion. You recommend the GTX 670 as best bang...

I'm curious what you mean by this. Can you be more specific or provide some examples? I own a GTS 250. Considering it's a rebadged 8800 gtx, it's amazing that it still plays every game out there albeit at lower settings. Before that I had an ati 9800pro so if anybody is the king of holding on to...

Ya good luck with that. 660ti is still atleast 6 months out which = HUGE fail from nvidia. Looks like I'llI have no choice but to pick up a 7850 and call it a day. http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=21792525&postcount=54

How and what did AMD do to rectify their driver issues? As someone who is contemplating purchasing an AMD card I am genuinely curious.

NCX, I never did get around to thanking you for your color settings on the LG 2361V monitor. I have been very pleased with it and your settings are one of the main proponents in taking the sting out of returning the F2380MX so...thanks! :D As for the samsungs, I'd lean towards the c530 myself...

Why do people insist on using cryptic acronyms? What the hell is GPF? I thought that port forwarding was remedied in one of the patches. Can anyone confirm that it's been fixed? Only 1 hour left on the sale before I have to take the plunge!

Another couple of quality reviews. Well done NCX! I would personally love to read your impressions on the LG W2361V. It's a cheap and easily obtainable monitor. I'd be curious how you rate it compared to the PX2370 and F2380MX.

Like I mentioned, most of my time with this montior was set on the default "faster" setting. One would assume that the faster setting is faster than normal so can someone please explain to me why there is motion blurring with faster and not normal? And what kind of artifacts are you noticing on...

Well I just returned this monitor after 2 weeks of very tough deliberation and I'm still not sure I made the right decision. It's akin to someone pointing a gun to your head and making you have to choose for the rest of your life between the prettiest girl you've ever seen but who's not very...

My xbox elite came with a dongle where you can route the audio via RCA or optical. If you don't have one you can buy one but if I remember correctly you might have to modify the dongle to make it fit with the HDMI cable inserted at the same time. It's a simple procedure where you remove the...

Of course there are ways around it. What are you connecting to the monitor? PC? PS3?

Please explain to me how the Acer H233H is quite a bit better than the LG W2361V? http://www.digitalversus.com/duels.php?ty=6&ma1=35&mo1=501&p1=5175&ma2=38&mo2=743&p2=8761&ph=13 And the panel lottery involved the 22" model as mentioned on DV which has since been rectified which is also the...

Yes of course they do! They also have a no hassle money back guarantee if you bring it back within 14 days in canada and I believe it's 30 days in the states.

I'd take a look at LG's W2361V from bestbuy for $220. I chose it over the H233H and am very happy with it. I found it's dark detail to be very good and the viewing angles are good for a TN. It was actually a very hard decision considering the $50 price difference(I paid $250 for mine) but in the...

@limitedaccess Do you currently have the f2380mx in your possession? Any impressions?

Are you fucking shitting me? This, the day after the trial period on my monitor runs out. :( Do you have a link? It's still showing as $399. I really want to try this monitor out but I have to be honest, without gettnig into a long story I am completely disenchanted with samsung because of my...

Thank you. I think you've made up my mind.

Today is my last day to return my LG W2361V which I am very happy with overall. I just want to make sure I am making the right decision. I too had an L227WTG. How would you say the monitors compare? Aside from the viewing angles of course, the L227 is known for having vibrant colors especially...

sayguh3, I too prioritize monitor's pop and vibrancy over super accurate colors. At first I thought the dell 2209wa was the perfect monitor and it made me appreciate accurate colors but I just couldn't get over how dull it looked and it got to the point where it started to affect my day to day...

Can anybody select game mode with their xbox 360. According to the manual you are supposed to have a game mode option when connecting a device via HDMI but it doesn't work with either my xbox or my PC however it does work with my PS3 !? Also, it seems like the f-engine is doing some kind of...

Is it me or do I see color banding in the middle of the RGB stripes going across the screen? Does anybody else have that problem? What settings are everyone using with their PC, Xbox and PS3 ? The preset "graphics" mode seems to be the most vibrant for games. I have my xbox set to YCbCr709...

While the XL's colors are more accurate after calibration, the PX is more accurate out of the box for those without the luxury of owning a calibrator. PX also has less input lag and is more responsive. I would have liked to see more comparisons in the review between the XL and PX as they are...

@wagsrules When you say the colors are popping what settings are you using? Are you using one of the pre-set modes or custom? Also, it's not clear in your post but when you say it has significant off angle white glow I'm assuming you are talking about the 2209wa as that's one of the...

Thanks for the heads up! I can't wait to read what they have to say as I am trying to make a decision on a 23" monitor.

I can't believe I am about to say this but 2 years later and I am back to the L227WTG baby! I just picked it up today. The colors are just as vibrant as I remember and text is razor sharp due to the glossy panel. The 2209wa had some weird text discoloration / over-sharpening thing going on. It's...

Hot off the presses...digitalversus just tested the PX2370 and it's got even less input lag than the XL2370 at 3 ms! I can't wait to read their write up to see what they have to say about it. Also, what's going on with prad.de? They are really slow with their reviews and they haven't even tested...

According to the review on digitalversus I would stay far away from this monitor. http://www.digitalversus.com/article-357-7794-35.html

I was refering to the XL2370 in that post. I much like you, am willing to put up with the poor viewing angles of a TN panel but backlight bleeding for me is indeed a show stopper. I've read many reports of backlight bleeding with these monitors and the reason for that is because they are...

I was thinking about this and there is an instance where a monitor might actually contribute to jaggies...OVERSCAN. I am not saying that this is the case here but some 1080p HDTVs have problems with overscanning 720p sources which the PS3 is. My next question, does anyone actually own an...

Are you sure what you are seeing is light bleeding? Light Bleeding is exactly as it sounds. It's when light is escaping through the edges of the panel.The best way to find out is download a program called Dead Pixel Buddy to display a completely black picture and report back. What you are...

@wagsrules I too am surprised that you are interested in the PX2370 over the EA231WMi. I returned my XL2370 yesterday. It didn't take me very long to know that this monitor was going back. At first the viewing angles were annoying and it had severe backlight bleeding. Kind of hard to have...

You can still get HD with your 360 by using an xbox to VGA cable, just not with this monitor since it doesn't have a VGA input.