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Sweet! Can you post some more benchies, pls?

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Hmmm, but why would that be? If you're displaying straight text without any smoothing/truetype enforced, then surely the feathering would be absent from both pics. EDIT: also, they show the same peculiarity as in the pics you posted prior. Where the lower part of the 'E' is 2-pixels high in the...

Cheers Neb!

Interesting. Check the tops of the letters. Whereas they are exactly one pixel tall in the bottom, 'native' image, they are not quite 2 pixels tall in the top, upscaled image (the black looks smudged). No idea why the monitor would do this though. There's definitely nothing in its settings to...

Cheers Andrew. There's some strange scaling going on there. It looks as if the straight lines in the top image are slightly smudged. Check out the top left hand corner of the 'R' on resolution. It appears to be a right-angle on the lower (1:1) image, but it's not so clear cut in the top one.

I'm leaning towards the A01 U2410 with this in mind, as there's no way I'm going to be able to run new PC games smoothly at the U2711's native res (even with my 4870x2). Now if the U2711 was able to present a 1280x720 image cleanly (i.e. not blurred), then that would be something else.

You'd think so, but not according to this one bloke at Overclockers UK ('garsands'), where he uses Dirt 2 as an example:- Link: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18098931&page=9

How does your desktop look presented at 1280x720? Is it very blurred?

Has anyone with this screen tested it at the half native resolution of 1280x720? I'm very interested in how this will look, as presumably one pixel will be interpolated to exactly four, leaving a very clean looking image (pretty exactly the same as if you had a native 27" 1280x720 screen). This...

It looks like edge enhancement/sharpening.

Yep, can confirm the same problem with an 8800GTX here :mad:

Argh, in the UK, this screen's release has now be delayed yet again until November 2006. What the 'frack' is that about??! :eek:

Those pics above look pretty damn good. Is that a 1080i cable broadcast over HDMI? I for one am really not bothered by the slight stretching, but am really looking forward to owning a 1080P HDCP compatible screen (should be nice once the PS3 is released). I did have a Dell 2407WFP A03 but got...

It's not really that hard to believe :rolleyes: Basically, there were two of us installing it. I applied the AS5, then held all the cables out of the way, whilst my brother took the HSF out of its packaging and fitted it. I didn't stop him to question whether it had thermal paste on it in the...

Do you think I have any chance of removing the AS5 off of the MX-1 compound using alcohol, then stick with the latter? It's just that the MX-1 is "stuck" to the HSF, and it has a more rubbery, putty consistency, so may be seperable from the AS5 paste. Also, it appears to be better at conducting...

Last night I installed an Arctic Cooler Freezer 7 Pro on my Conroe. I dug out some Arctic Silver 5 compound and applied a rice-sized blob of it to my cleaned CPU - like I've done on all of my previous CPUs - then installed the HSF on top. Anyways, reading some threads I've only just realised...

Has anybody tested the new X1900 in a shuttle yet? I know the power requirements are quite high, but having used an x1800xt in my sn25p and knowing the sn26p can run 2 x 7800GTXs in SLI (both shuttles share the same psu, I believe), I'm hoping that I'll be able to upgrade to a x1900xt-x...

I've got mine set to 100/100/100 (sRGB on my screen) with brightness at around 40%. I've also dropped the gamma to 0.85 using ATI's CCC colour controls. That's about it :cool:

(borat) High five! ;)

Yup, I second Tigerblade and anasazi's opinions - you have a duff monitor. Send it back and get a replacement!

Fair enough, I already googled image persistance :), but I still haven't seen it on this screen. I also played WoW for some time, and never came across that problem. I probably had that menu bar along on the bottom sit there for at least 6 hours - longest session I'd permit myself! - and my...

I'm still having a hard time understanding what you mean. Do you mean you still see the minimize, maximize buttons from the window you just minimised? If so, that really ISN'T a well known problem with LCDs, at least, it hasn't been for several years now. I can assure you that every time I...

I think you might have a messed up TFT. I've owned several 2005FPWs and none of them give out much heat at all : if I touch the one I'm using right now - and it has been on for several hours - it is in fact cool to the touch. Also, none of the screens I have used have exhibited this "image...

Good idea Yaka. But you should DEFINITELY be able to tell the diff in resolutions just over component. Why not just try running XBMC over component at 480P and then up it to 720P. If you've got any xbox 720P games as well, make sure you try those. I've found that 480P xbox games look...

Just to add to this, I'm very interested in people's opinions of the Xbox 360 running on the 2405FPW. What do the rest of you guys think? Cheers! :D p.s. jaggies in PDZ... Yup, they are there too - on every screen I've tried :p They're just not TOO extreme. On the 2405fpw, have you tried...

John, Why not set the 360 to output 480P, then run those games. Do they look far worse than before? Another reason I think the Dell can output 720P: with my old Xbox, I used to get incredibly poor image results when it was set to 480P. There would be horizontal line banding and the picture...

Does it look ANY different if you display that shot whilst running at 720P (not 1080i)? I don't quite get the logic with downscaling an image to 480P to just rescale it up again. Surely it's creating more work for itself, rather than just say taking a 720P image and upscaling it to fullscreen...

bump for more opinions on this matter... :)

Fair enough mathesar, this is another reason why I'd rather plump for the 2005FPW (I'm not even tempted to go back to CRT though). I just need a few other members' opinions on the anomaly I've described...

Right I need some members' opinions on this one... I recently purchased a Dell 2005FPW from Dell. I was very happy with my purchase at first, but within minutes I began to notice several problems with it. The backlight was crap - massive leakage in ALL the corners. However, more annoyingly, I...

Does anybody know what the current deal is with the 3yr warranty provided by Dell UK? I've just received my screen today and the backlight is pretty leaky in the bottom left hand corner and it also has a tiny lit pixel. Does Dell UK operate a 100% satisfaction guarantee now, similar to that in...

I ran some tests from my xbox to my 2405FPW via component today. As has already been said, 480P doesn't look very good at all - a lot of interpolation is involved to scale the image to fill the screen, and as a result the picture is full of jaggies and there's obvious noise (this whilst using...

Phew, fortunately a bit of vertical stretch doesn't bother me in the slightest! :)

I've not read anywhere that the XB360 will have HDMI ports, though it's definitely possible. The only way to get an LCD with 720P native (or thereabouts) is to buy an LCD TV (that doesn't support 1080p). Otherwise, you could get, for example, a Dell 2005FPW or 2405FPW, which both have wide...

I wouldn't say it would be overkill at all. I'm not quite sure what you mean about your best displayed resolutions - 1080i widescreen is 1920x1080 interlaced, whether on a television or a monitor. As this is almost the native resolution of the Dell 2405FPW, it'll look great. I've already tried...

Yes it CAN play HD. From my PS2 and Xbox, I've so far successfully had running 480P, 720P and 1080i, so I can't see any reason why the Xbox360 would be any different. Certain HD television broadcasts use macrovision encryption - to prevent copying - which the Dell screen is incapable of...

Mine is #1 and fortunately it's very quiet. It also seems to stop once the screen has warmed up.

Hey gustep, I'll give that marquee screensaver a try when I get home later. You should really test the Dell using its DVI connection if you can though, before casting judgement on the quality of its screen lag and ghosting. It's said in every single Dell TFT review that their VGA quality is...

I can't speak for the delay, but having owned several Dell monitors I can easily state that the VGA inputs on their TFTs are seriously lacking compared to their DVI ones. Not only is the colour reproduction, noise and sharpness all seriously effected, but perhaps you've just proved that timing...