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Solaris54: would you be able to post a picture of your setup please? thanks
Add it to photobucket or something.
that link didnt work!
Nice pics Solaris. Although as soon as I saw that close up pic of that the Earth, I thought to myself: "Why do the colors look so saturated and pastel like?". The colors look way different than they do on my own monitor. Then I remembered the wide gamut.
Looks like I have no choiced but to plunk down $1100 for the 2490 now.
so i got my monitor and have been using it for a couple of days. so far it's great. one problem that i am having though is that i am getting these red little dots around dark images on the display. they look like little red sparkles. they move WITH the image if i drag it around the screen. anyone ever see these before? i'm powering the display with the 8800gt in my 8 core mac pro. i'm trying to figure out if this is the display or the video card. i read this... "those are most often referred to as sparkles. The fixes include the following.
Tweaking of a few of the voltages on the Y sustain board. These adjustments are often only a temporary fix.
Replacement of the X and Y sustain boards along with the Logic board.
Finally, if these do not solve the issue you'll have to replace the PDP panel itself. Not cost effective in most instances. "
but i'm not sure if this applies to my display because that was from a plasma tv forum but it sounds exactly like the problem i'm having. any suggestions.
here is a link to a photo i took of my display...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/2888551285_bf583f7fe9_b.jpg
it's not specific to one portion of the display either. it can happen top, left, right, bottom, center. and it's usually in the area where darker colors are being displayed on the monitor. i did an LCD tester, solid black, white, red, green, blue and it's not visible there. only on mixed color images, webpages, content
If anyone has input on the following gaming question, I would definitely appreciate it:
I'm looking to purchase this monitor but am having a difficult time understanding how well it performs with games. For reference, I'm looking to play Warhammer and Empire:Total War along with FPS' thrown in, as well as Blizzard's new games.
I keep reading that it has 5m/s and 12m/s response times - how good/bad are these? I'm coming from a 2004 laptop so I'm not up-to-date on current rating systems. Is 12 m/s noticeable? (From using others' comps, I think I'm pretty anal about these sorts of things, so I'm hesitant on going through with the purchase)
...I keep reading that it has 5m/s and 12m/s response times - how good/bad are these? I'm coming from a 2004 laptop so I'm not up-to-date on current rating systems. Is 12 m/s noticeable? (From using others' comps, I think I'm pretty anal about these sorts of things, so I'm hesitant on going through with the purchase)
For the average gamer you want even notice it. We talking about one frame of lag. This would not effect any of the game types you mentioned except FPS and even then it would only affect a fraction of 1% of the players out there. I don't want to rain on anyone's delusions but even the really good players probably aren't good enough to notice. Most players that think they are elite are just above average.
Also it probably makes more sense to adapt, get used to LCDs because they are pretty much the standard now.
What is the best place to buy this monitor, Provantage?
I gotcha covered here.Where in the hell do you plug in the USB cable? My USB cable has 1 square end and 1 flat, standard end. All I see are the flat, standard sized inputs in the monitor, and my computer only has the flat, standard-sized inputs as well. Did it come with the wrong USB cable?
Those values mean nothing. I'm pretty sure the Planar doesn't have overdrive and that the 5 ms is a blatant lie like the 1000:1 contrast ratio.EW27 said:AFAIK, 5ms gtg/12ms is fast for an IPS. The NEC 20WMGX2 was 6ms, and the 2490 and 2690 are 8ms gtg/16ms.
I'd really appreciate an answer to this question.So how do I color calibrate this monitor so that it shows colors "correctly"?
Maybe it's not the monitor, but the display settings and gamma correction that needs to be adjusted.
I barely got my Planar PX2611W a few days ago. I am running it on an old nVidia GeForce 6200, which is rather unpleasing to the eye. I connected the Planar monitor to a much better computer at my work for an hour and thought it looked really slick (GeForce 8800 GT). So I know that the monitor is good, but I need to adjust something and I'm not sure what. As one more side note, I'll be upgrading my system as soon as it arrives and going to a Radeon 4870. So who knows how much of this is moot. Maybe this video card just can't handle this monitor very well.
My settings right now for brightness, contrast, and sharpness are 40, 50 and 40. No matter what I set them too, either the white are too gray or it's a little too bright to look at. Colors like reds and yellows do seem just a little too intense.
I've tried the nVidia color correction wizard that comes with these display drivers, but that only made it 100x worse. All the mids and darks turned to black so it looked really wrong.
I'd really appreciate an answer to this question.
Would it be better if I started a new thread w this question instead?