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Well, after a month of waiting I finally got my new LCD screen.
So here goes:
Packaging was great in a big comfortable box, well padded so nothing happens to it.
The box looked fairly simple (no fancy color wrappers) but included everything you need.
The screen itself is preassembled - so there's nothing to put together (which is a shame cause i was really curious how the pivot mechanism works).
The box included:
VP930 19" LCD monitor (well, duh)
1 VGA cable
1 DVI cable
2 power cables (I can't even begin to guess why)
1 Info leaflet with two CDS (containing one small page of info in a gazlillion languages)
Setup was easy, turn on my PC with DVI plugged in.
The display anounces that 1280*1024 is the preffered res and that you should set it to it.
On initial entry to windows everything is way too bright (Contrast and brightness are set to 100% at default).
I tried installing their software to help color calibirate the monitor - but it's a no go.
The software just hard locks my PC, appaerently they didn't adapt it to the new 7XXX series yet.
The much discussed X backlight bleed was apparent at the default settings.
I messed around with the controls a bit - I found 6500 temp is pretty good looking with about 50 for brightness and 70 for contrast. I'm not sure Im quite through yet - but colors do look right. The backlight X is now no longer visible....
Using windows and surfing the net I found the text crystal clear and all images great!
Also looking through photos I found the image to be just as good as my old CRT and even sharper!
GAMING:
After reading many compliants about blacks on LCD's the first game I fired up was Doom3....
It looked MUCH better than my CRT, the blacks we're awesome and I felt that I saw more details that I hadn't seen before. I gamed at 1280 * 1024 High Quality with 4AA for the first two levels and had a blast (of course putting aside Doom's VERY repetetive nature).
This put aside my concern for the X backlight bleed issues I red about this monitor -I experienced NONE in Doom 3. Also reactivity was great, I saw no lag or ghosting of any type in DOOM.
Moving on I fired up CSS, also playing in native resolution 1280*1024 4AA +16AF and everything at its highest setting.
I saw some blurring, no ghosting per se, but there is some blurr and I'm not sure every hard core gamer would settle for it. The images were amazing, colors looked more vibrant and again many more details just "popped out" at me. I did see an issue that was discussed about the 7800 Series that I couldn't see on my previous CRT- texture crawl!
Since I'm using 84.20's at default I have all optimisations on..I promptly went into CP and switched them off, and the issue went away.
Funny I couldn't notice these things on my CRT...
To sum up CSS - looks wonderfull, however I would not recommend this LCD to anyone who is finicky about and blurring, the blurring is very light, but GO SEE an 8ms reponse monitor BEFORE you buy this for CSS. Personally, It'll take me a couple more sessions to get used to it, but it doesn't bother me (not did it degrade my game ...
).
Movies:
I tried watching a couply of movies to see what it's like. I fired up Lord of the Rings Return of the King. Images looked crisp, no blur and no problem whatsoever! I watched the meeting with the Dead Kings, amazing!
I will be posting images later on, and I'm very happy with my new LCD thus far, if any issues arise I will alos post back.
So here goes:
Packaging was great in a big comfortable box, well padded so nothing happens to it.
The box looked fairly simple (no fancy color wrappers) but included everything you need.
The screen itself is preassembled - so there's nothing to put together (which is a shame cause i was really curious how the pivot mechanism works).
The box included:
VP930 19" LCD monitor (well, duh)
1 VGA cable
1 DVI cable
2 power cables (I can't even begin to guess why)
1 Info leaflet with two CDS (containing one small page of info in a gazlillion languages)
Setup was easy, turn on my PC with DVI plugged in.
The display anounces that 1280*1024 is the preffered res and that you should set it to it.
On initial entry to windows everything is way too bright (Contrast and brightness are set to 100% at default).
I tried installing their software to help color calibirate the monitor - but it's a no go.
The software just hard locks my PC, appaerently they didn't adapt it to the new 7XXX series yet.
The much discussed X backlight bleed was apparent at the default settings.
I messed around with the controls a bit - I found 6500 temp is pretty good looking with about 50 for brightness and 70 for contrast. I'm not sure Im quite through yet - but colors do look right. The backlight X is now no longer visible....
Using windows and surfing the net I found the text crystal clear and all images great!
Also looking through photos I found the image to be just as good as my old CRT and even sharper!
GAMING:
After reading many compliants about blacks on LCD's the first game I fired up was Doom3....
It looked MUCH better than my CRT, the blacks we're awesome and I felt that I saw more details that I hadn't seen before. I gamed at 1280 * 1024 High Quality with 4AA for the first two levels and had a blast (of course putting aside Doom's VERY repetetive nature).
This put aside my concern for the X backlight bleed issues I red about this monitor -I experienced NONE in Doom 3. Also reactivity was great, I saw no lag or ghosting of any type in DOOM.
Moving on I fired up CSS, also playing in native resolution 1280*1024 4AA +16AF and everything at its highest setting.
I saw some blurring, no ghosting per se, but there is some blurr and I'm not sure every hard core gamer would settle for it. The images were amazing, colors looked more vibrant and again many more details just "popped out" at me. I did see an issue that was discussed about the 7800 Series that I couldn't see on my previous CRT- texture crawl!
Since I'm using 84.20's at default I have all optimisations on..I promptly went into CP and switched them off, and the issue went away.
Funny I couldn't notice these things on my CRT...
To sum up CSS - looks wonderfull, however I would not recommend this LCD to anyone who is finicky about and blurring, the blurring is very light, but GO SEE an 8ms reponse monitor BEFORE you buy this for CSS. Personally, It'll take me a couple more sessions to get used to it, but it doesn't bother me (not did it degrade my game ...
).Movies:
I tried watching a couply of movies to see what it's like. I fired up Lord of the Rings Return of the King. Images looked crisp, no blur and no problem whatsoever! I watched the meeting with the Dead Kings, amazing!
I will be posting images later on, and I'm very happy with my new LCD thus far, if any issues arise I will alos post back.
