Good afternoon all.
As first, I'd like to congratulate you all for management and upgrading of this forum: your work is helpful and very good. I'm quite new to these matters, at the moment I'm using an old (pre 2000) Philips 17", so every change will result in a huge improvement.
I use to spend 12 hours per day in front of the monitor, from 1 to 2 feet of distance, to study, work, watch movies and play: then I'm thinking about a 27", that would help me a lot in the use of program such as AutoCad, Revit, 3DS etc, and that would make movies and games much more enjoyables. I still need to understand if a 16:10 is preferable to 16:9, or 120Hz is preferable to 60Hz.
Studying on the net (mainly on this forum) new models, I happily discovered new 3D monitors, and I'm wondering about buying one, but I have some doubts: first of all, my primary necessity is 2D, and in principle, a very good 2D is preferable to a mediocre 3D. My question is: how far is gone 3D technology for monitors? My lousy experience in that suggests that a good 3D environment needs a whole dedicated system, and it looks like that the main chance is to buy nVidia 3D Set, which has - among 27" compatibles monitors ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-system-requirements.html ) - only an Acer ( HN274HB ) and an Asus ( VG278H ). Personally, I've had negative experience with Acer CS, and I've read on this forum that Asus CS is not that good: in addition, Overclocker UK Asus review ( http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18371830 ) strongly advices it as 3D monitor, but unadvices it as 2D monitor.
Then, maybe better to go back to a passive 3D monitor, unbound from GPU, and since I wear glasses it would be better, but still I don't know how good is 3D environment by a 3D passive monitor without compromitting 2D, that's for me is priority. It looks like there exist monitor of this kind ( LG DM2780D ), but is their 3D worth the price different with a similar if not better 2D monitor?
I'm quite confused, considering I'm planning to hold it for 6/8 years: I could be sorry by renouncing 3D for so much time, but I could be sorry too by spending quite the double for a mediocre 3D environment that I would not use, or, the worst, a good 3D and a not that good 2D.
Desktop PC I'm going to buy with it is a I7 2600 cpu with 8gb ddr3 ram and a nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti, but I'm still quite flexible about it and I've not a precise budget for monitors: I'd say around 300€ for a very good 2D, but I have no good ideas for 3D.
Thank you for your help.
As first, I'd like to congratulate you all for management and upgrading of this forum: your work is helpful and very good. I'm quite new to these matters, at the moment I'm using an old (pre 2000) Philips 17", so every change will result in a huge improvement.
I use to spend 12 hours per day in front of the monitor, from 1 to 2 feet of distance, to study, work, watch movies and play: then I'm thinking about a 27", that would help me a lot in the use of program such as AutoCad, Revit, 3DS etc, and that would make movies and games much more enjoyables. I still need to understand if a 16:10 is preferable to 16:9, or 120Hz is preferable to 60Hz.
Studying on the net (mainly on this forum) new models, I happily discovered new 3D monitors, and I'm wondering about buying one, but I have some doubts: first of all, my primary necessity is 2D, and in principle, a very good 2D is preferable to a mediocre 3D. My question is: how far is gone 3D technology for monitors? My lousy experience in that suggests that a good 3D environment needs a whole dedicated system, and it looks like that the main chance is to buy nVidia 3D Set, which has - among 27" compatibles monitors ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/3d-vision-system-requirements.html ) - only an Acer ( HN274HB ) and an Asus ( VG278H ). Personally, I've had negative experience with Acer CS, and I've read on this forum that Asus CS is not that good: in addition, Overclocker UK Asus review ( http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18371830 ) strongly advices it as 3D monitor, but unadvices it as 2D monitor.
Then, maybe better to go back to a passive 3D monitor, unbound from GPU, and since I wear glasses it would be better, but still I don't know how good is 3D environment by a 3D passive monitor without compromitting 2D, that's for me is priority. It looks like there exist monitor of this kind ( LG DM2780D ), but is their 3D worth the price different with a similar if not better 2D monitor?
I'm quite confused, considering I'm planning to hold it for 6/8 years: I could be sorry by renouncing 3D for so much time, but I could be sorry too by spending quite the double for a mediocre 3D environment that I would not use, or, the worst, a good 3D and a not that good 2D.
Desktop PC I'm going to buy with it is a I7 2600 cpu with 8gb ddr3 ram and a nVidia GeForce GTX 560 Ti, but I'm still quite flexible about it and I've not a precise budget for monitors: I'd say around 300€ for a very good 2D, but I have no good ideas for 3D.
Thank you for your help.
