BARGAIN - OcUK 24" with DVI (*VA Panel) for £179.99+VAT (This Week Only Deal!!)

sunama · 2 Dec 2007 at 14:49

Westie, have you tried using the 24" monitor, at lower res, using DVI? See if that helps. If it does, if possible, try using a different video card. It could be that the video card doesnt like being pushed to such a high res.

westie17 · 2 Dec 2007 at 15:51

OK just been testing and i can get good picture on 800x600 and 1024x768 over DVI. Any higher and it doesn't display right.

So if i picked up a cheap gfx card like a X1950 it should be alright at higher resolutions.

sunama · 2 Dec 2007 at 16:01

It might be your video card.
What video card are you using?

The ATI HD2400 series of cards are pretty cheap and should do the job. It wont be any good for gaming though.

The x1950 will be better for gaming obviously, but more expensive.

westie17 · 2 Dec 2007 at 16:18

I have a 9800PRO ATM, I have a crappy PSU too so i would need a new one of them too :/

Jimmy1983 · 2 Dec 2007 at 16:19

westie17 said:
I have a 9800PRO ATM, I have a crappy PSU too so i would need a new one of them too :/

Not sure about the PSU, but the X1950Pro needs a power connector to it. As ive got one.

westie17 · 2 Dec 2007 at 16:24

I have an Antec 350W that came in my case, was looking at getting the Antec Basic 500W says they are the same size so it should be a straight swap.

Jon33 · 2 Dec 2007 at 16:30

If I decided to buy this would a 6800GT be able to run at the high res just on the desktop (not bothered about games)?

MagicBoy · 2 Dec 2007 at 16:42

Jimmy1983 said:
Not sure about the PSU, but the X1950Pro needs a power connector to it. As ive got one.

So does the 9800PRO - I've got one of each!

Seriously tempted by this monitor to replace my 19" Sony CRT, suspect I'd need another x1950 to run games at anything native res tho.

SBD · 2 Dec 2007 at 16:50

Jon33 the maximum resolution for a 6800GT is 2048 x 1536 i think. Well thats what i found out with google

Jon33 · 2 Dec 2007 at 16:56

That should cover it then, cheers!

sunama · 2 Dec 2007 at 17:00

westie17 said:
I have a 9800PRO ATM, I have a crappy PSU too so i would need a new one of them too :/

If you do buy a new video card, keep the current 350w psu. Try it. See if it works. If not, then replace the PSU. It "might" just work.

Also, I was under the impression that the 9800pro was capable of running the desktop at 1900x1200.

I think it might be best to create a new post in the video card forum, as some of those guys in there live and breathe video cards.

It could be that you current 9800pro is defective and is struggling to run at high resolutions, in your desktop.

Have you tried playing around with the refresh rate?

sunama · 2 Dec 2007 at 17:02

MagicBoy said:
Seriously tempted by this monitor to replace my 19" Sony CRT, suspect I'd need another x1950 to run games at anything native res tho.

MagicBoy, I currently have a Sony 19" CRT. My 24" monitor should be arriving tomorrow. Let me assess it and I can tell you if its worth the upgrade.

A lot of people who have upgraded to this monitor are either coming from an LCD background, which we know isnt that great (compared to a top CRT) or are upgrading from a very poor CRT monitor.

SBD · 2 Dec 2007 at 17:12

A 9800 pro can do 2048x1536. So it might be best to try another graphics card if you have one or use a friends. If you still get the same problem then send the monitor back. Also have you set the refresh rate to 60Hz?

Jimmy1983 · 2 Dec 2007 at 17:13

t31os said:
Thats right just press one button on the front and it switches to the other input. A few of the pics i posted were taken whilst using the VGA, which goes to show there is no difference over VGA and DVI, well none i could see anyway.

Just thought, my KVM switch is connected to my KB so I only have 1 KB for both PC's and iam using X2 wireless mice.

So I wont be able to just use the monitor's input, therwise I will only be able to use the KB on 1 PC.

How have you got yours setup t31os?

Sorry for the tangent peeps.

Nazmul · 2 Dec 2007 at 17:34

jmhduck said:
Ok I just turned my 24" monitor on this morning and was greeted by loads of graphical corruption, I turned off and back on and it was fine, anyone else had a similar problem?

Yes i also had simmilar problems as described bellow..

Nazmul said:
Update to my earlier post I now have two issues with this monitor.

1. When connect it using the DVI the text looks blurry. I am running it at the native resolution according the the graphics driver and monitor OSD so I cannot figure out whats going on. I've got a Geforce 8800 GTX and latest Vista 32bit drivers.

2. I switched over to VGA and with some tweaks on the OSD it now looks pin sharp but now I have another problem. Every time I turn my pc or reboot the screen starts up out of phase, I can see weird lines across my screen and everything is oversaturated and the gamma is gone crazy bright. To fix this I have to switch the monitor on and off again manually after it boots into windows, very annoying...

Today I turned it on and now I have a wierd horizontal line of dead pixels going across my screen and it doesn't want to go away (i've attached a picture).

Overclockers have arranged and RMA and they are collecting it too so thumbs up to them for customer service...

WotDa · 2 Dec 2007 at 18:29

Nazmul said:
Overclockers have arranged and RMA and they are collecting it too so thumbs up to them for customer service...

Meh, not so much tbh, if they really want to keep us RMA folk happy they'd send a new one out before telling is it's faulty again.

sunama · 2 Dec 2007 at 18:45

WotDa said:
Meh, not so much tbh, if they really want to keep us RMA folk happy they'd send a new one out before telling is it's faulty again.

That would be great idea, but what if we took the box of our old 24" monitor, put some bricks in it then handed it over to the courier; at the same time, the courier hands us over the new 24" monitor. Now we have 2 24" monitors.

There is an element of trust here and clearly shops like OCUK cant afford to have that element of trust as it might cost them, if a dishonest customer pulls the above trick.

Raikiri · 2 Dec 2007 at 19:00

sunama said:
That would be great idea, but what if we took the box of our old 24" monitor, put some bricks in it then handed it over to the courier; at the same time, the courier hands us over the new 24" monitor. Now we have 2 24" monitors.

There is an element of trust here and clearly shops like OCUK cant afford to have that element of trust as it might cost them, if a dishonest customer pulls the above trick.

Bit like the 360 shell with books in

Returned it and just kept the internals.

sunama · 2 Dec 2007 at 19:04

LOL. Now that would just be sick.
I can understand returning the box, but returning the plastic casing but keeping the internal - thats crazy.

WotDa · 2 Dec 2007 at 19:21

sunama said:
That would be great idea, but what if we took the box of our old 24" monitor, put some bricks in it then handed it over to the courier; at the same time, the courier hands us over the new 24" monitor. Now we have 2 24" monitors.

There is an element of trust here and clearly shops like OCUK cant afford to have that element of trust as it might cost them, if a dishonest customer pulls the above trick.

Indeed.