Dell 3007 wfp HC

Mr Kingston · 16 Sep 2008 at 20:57

Has anyone got one of these? im looking at buying one shortly and was wondering are they that good and what sort of gfx would i need to run to power the beast

w3bbo · 16 Sep 2008 at 21:04

I got one and love it. It's by far the best upgrade I have ever made. You won't need anything too meaty for normal applications but if you are planning on running games at the native 2560x1600 resolution then aim towards the higher end of the GPU market.

Mr Kingston · 16 Sep 2008 at 21:06

thanks for your advice webbo, i currently have a gx2 and was wondering would that be enough to play crysis and other FPS games at native res ?

also dont suppose you have got any pics of it have you, ive gooled a few but want some real pics

theufnk007 · 16 Sep 2008 at 21:15

It will be enough to play at native res mate it just depends on what settings you have selected. In my honest opinion in order to get the best out of the native res you do perhaps need SLI

Mr Kingston · 16 Sep 2008 at 21:19

really i thought a gx2 would be more than powerfull enough

Mr Kingston · 17 Sep 2008 at 15:02

anyone else got any opinions ?

philjohn · 17 Sep 2008 at 15:29

Well, the HC after the code means "High Colour" which denotes that it's a wide-gamut display, I'd look into that to ensure it's not going to cause you problems.

MR.B · 18 Sep 2008 at 13:37

You do know theres a newer 3008? My GTX 280 can run any game at it's native 2560x1600 res on full graphical settings, bar Crysis of course. Most with AA and AF aswell.

Your GX2 will have trouble though because it only has 512MB of usable memory for games (512MB for each core) and this is not enough for 2560x1600 with newer games. I know this from first hand experience and sold my GX2 because of this. Newer texture heavy games will run of of memory at the high resolution and will become totally unplayable.

The 3008 can produce more colours than even the HC (high colour) 3007. And it has a ton of inputs. I also use my 360 and PS3 on it over HDMI.

philjohn · 18 Sep 2008 at 14:03

MR.B said:
The 3008 can produce more colours than even the HC (high colour) 3007. And it has a ton of inputs. I also use my 360 and PS3 on it over HDMI.

It's also got much higher input lag due to those inputs (and the scaler chip required), plus there have been oodles of problems with the first revision backlight bleeding. To be honest, Dell really need to get their act together as that's both high-end 08 models having serious issues on launch.

MR.B · 19 Sep 2008 at 18:43

philjohn said:
It's also got much higher input lag due to those inputs (and the scaler chip required), plus there have been oodles of problems with the first revision backlight bleeding. To be honest, Dell really need to get their act together as that's both high-end 08 models having serious issues on launch.

I've not noticed any lag on mine, i also got lucky and didn't have any backlight bleed even though i got mine right after release. But the newer revisions seem to have mostly fixed that issue now anyway.
The 3007's had the same backlight issues on release aswell, always seems to take Dell a revision or two to get it right with 30".

nalla · 19 Sep 2008 at 19:51

id deffo go for it m8 best upgrade i ever got, games look soooooooo much better and also dell service on these are fantastic, i had a problem with one of mine, phoned them at about 5pm and there was a new one at the door the very next day, turned out it wasnt the monitor but hey ho,