Dell Ultrasharp U3011

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Could someone with this monitor do me a small favour please?
With the base backed up against a wall, what is the distance from the wall to the very front of the screen?
 
Beware though the U3011 is addictive, I bought one on a Monday, a second the next Thursday and am seriously trying not to order a third :)
 
schnipps said:
Wall mount it :) you know you need to.
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Thats what I've done with mine, gives me a lot more desk room to play with and it looks great too.

Frankly the only downside to the U3011 is the high end hardware required to run recent games at the native resolution.
 
Speed said:
Thats what I've done with mine, gives me a lot more desk room to play with and it looks great too.

Frankly the only downside to the U3011 is the high end hardware required to run recent games at the native resolution.
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sorry to derail a touch but just looked at your spec, very nice! you got any pics of your setup
 
I'm still at the browsing stage at the moment as it's a lot of money for a monitor, albeit a damn fine one. I'm a little put off by comments on the anti-glare coating yet I would prefer 16:10 and all of the 27" monitors are 16:9. I also need to get a decent graphics card but I'll make sure that the card I get will be able to handle the monitor without a problem.

Also wall mounting seems a good idea but I don't know if the air blocks in the wall will take the strain!!
 
Ashfield said:
sorry to derail a touch but just looked at your spec, very nice! you got any pics of your setup
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Been meaning to take some but never seem to get round to it.


Hamster said:
I'm still at the browsing stage at the moment as it's a lot of money for a monitor, albeit a damn fine one. I'm a little put off by comments on the anti-glare coating yet I would prefer 16:10 and all of the 27" monitors are 16:9. I also need to get a decent graphics card but I'll make sure that the card I get will be able to handle the monitor without a problem.

Also wall mounting seems a good idea but I don't know if the air blocks in the wall will take the strain!!
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With regards to wall mounting, the screen isn't very heavy especially when you compare it to something like a TV. Most of the weight is in the stand to keep it stable so as long as you get the right hardware (screws etc) for the type of wall you have you should be fine. I think I weighed mine before I mounted it in the 8-9kg range, which is nothing really. I got a cheap VESA flush wall mount off the well known auction site for £13 and it did the job very well.

Never saw the anti glare as a problem personally, you either get on with it or you don't and you always have the DSRs to fall back on if it comes to that. Any other faults or issues and you have the Dell warranty which is excellent, next business day door step exchange.

I saw mine as a bit of an investment, after lots of hassle with various screens going wrong and having to deal with retailers and awful manufacturers with their repair warranties I gave up. Dell have always been good to me and their warranty service has always been excellent. So buy new and you get a 3 year warranty, a good quality screen should last at least that long. So I divided the cost of the monitor by three and that certainaly helped me swallow the price tag.
 
Anyone else have this problem (atleast I think its an issue) , I have the monitor connected with the supplied Dual-Link DVI connector. Now in RGB mode the picture is fine.
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In YPbPr, it is completely different story.

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It's not the monitors fault, that setting is to tell the monitor what format data is coming down the cable. When you set it to that and still send it an RGB signal from your card you are telling the monitor that the Red signal is really the brightness and the Green and Blue Signals are the difference between the brightness and the blue and red values. It's throw back to YUV TV encoding where they stated with Black and White only and then added colour at half the bit rate as that was all they could do at the time.
 
I hate to go off topic, but this would save creating a whole thread for a simple answer:

Is there any alternatives to the Dell U3011 Monitors?
An when is 30" Monitors likely to be readily manufactured like 24/27" monitors are today?

I ask because I am interested in upgrading.
 
There are other 30" monitors on the market if thats what you are asking.

Hazro and HP make 30" monitors around the same LG H-IPS panel and there are others with the same and different panels.
 
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