Advantages of Widescreen

xirokx

xirokx

xirokx

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Hi,

I am will be upgrading anyday now and would like some opinions on a new monitor...

Bascially I can get a 7900gt and the viewsonic 19" (non ws) now or just get the 7900 gtx now and wait to get a new widescreen monitor in the near future....

Will I be able to play games at full res which is 1280 x 1024 with the gt on the 19" viewsonic (non ws)?

Or would you wait and grab the 7900gtx now and get a ws a little later?

Is there a lot of difference when gaming on widescreen?

All comments would be most appreciated....
 
There is a site somwhere (forgot link) which shows a screenshot non - ws then Ws.... its pretty good, and yes widescreen is much better, wish I could afford ;) Someone may provide the link :confused:
 
Got a widescreen lappy and I am very pleased with it, the way the eyes work makes it all far more natural, good for non game stuff as well ;)
My future shopping list is for a 24 inch or maybe bigger, just need time for the wife to forget my last purchase :D
 
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Burbleflop said:
Do what I did - get 2 :)
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Wife and 1 monitor = I keep my meat but `lose` my two veg
Wife and 2 monitors = no meat or two veg :eek:


Also looking to use as TV so one screen would be best ;)
 
Widescreen TFT's do look nice. I have had a couple but unfortunately they had issues with them, pixel problems and text problems! Not an issue with widescreen, just normal TFT problems!
 
Hey,

Thanks for the site its really helpful and I see what all of you mean about ws's now.....

I am seriously considering getting the GTX and then saving for a WS now...

Can you recommend a WS?? Irrespective of budget....more bang for buck really?

Thanks for all your responses and help so far...

Cheers!!!
 
xirokx said:
Hey,

Thanks for the site its really helpful and I see what all of you mean about ws's now.....

I am seriously considering getting the GTX and then saving for a WS now...

Can you recommend a WS?? Irrespective of budget....more bang for buck really?

Thanks for all your responses and help so far...

Cheers!!!
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Don't think you'll be disappointed with the NEC from user responses.
 
thats nice....

Although for £422 its fair to expect the best.....

Is there much chance of recieving of a faulty product? I have read a lot of dead pixels and other faults on brand new montiors...It leads to me whether paying such a lot of money for a screen is justified??
 
xirokx said:
thats nice....

Although for £422 its fair to expect the best.....

Is there much chance of recieving of a faulty product? I have read a lot of dead pixels and other faults on brand new montiors...It leads to me whether paying such a lot of money for a screen is justified??
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There is a massive post on this monitor Here, basically there has been a prob with backlight bleed on some which is going to be resolved for current owners, with the new and replaced batch now shipping from OC which seems to not have these problems, ultimately if you have a fault, RMA it :)
 
Dead pixles can show up in different ways. They may be totally dead in which case they'll shop up as black all the time, or they may be stuck pixels and always show up as red/blue/whatever. The easiest way to spot them is to put on in image with a uniform colour (white for spotting dead pixels as black will show up best).

To check for backlight bleeding, put on a black image that fills the whole screen and look for areas that are lighter than others. The lighter areas will be where the backlight is bleeding.
 
hey thats really handy to know...cheers appreciate it...

are there any sites on webpages that u or anyone else knows of that u can visit and runs such tests which tells u?
 
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