Hanns-G HW191D Thread (Now £107.95 @ OcUK)

Dave said:
Got my monitor today - couldn't complain for £120 odd! Got my mum to pick it up for me from OcUK central this afternoon :D

I've just come from a 17" CRT and the difference in size is huge. Colours are very bright and vivid too - I'll have to get a hold of a DVI cable. And a new graphics card, my 6600GT may not be up to scratch in higher resolutions. More money to OcUK it seems :p

edit/ I'm a nonce, I had a DVI cable in the box as well as the VGA one. It was just right down the bottom of the box. Pic is a fair bit sharper now.
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You had a DVI cable with this monitor aswell! I feel cheated lol
 
Foehammer2003 said:
You had a DVI cable with this monitor aswell! I feel cheated lol
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Got both :p

I take it I can plug the VGA input into my other PC (storage box) and just select digital as my main input, so I can switch from PC to PC. I've got a separate keyboard and mouse for the old PC so I don't need one of those switches.
 
this Monitor is DVI-D..so you must purchase DVI-D to DVI-D
because the graphics cards do not have the DVI-D like the monitor does..they have the DVI-I on them with those extra 4 pins so a DVI-I cable would plug in to the graphics card..but it won't go into the monitor.because the DVI-D connection on the monitor is minus 4 pins..of course DVI-D cable will work..because it will still go in go the gfx card even without extra the 4 pins...so be careful when buying DVI cables
 
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This is my first tft i've bought and i'm a bit disappointed at the picture quality. the text looks all blurry. I use tft's at work and the picture is pin sharp. I've fiddled with various settings. I can only get 75hz refresh rate on my x1600 radeon at 1280 x 1024. I'm using the vga connections. So do i need to use a dvi cable to get a sharp picture ? Is there specific drivers for this monitor ? Or is there a simple setting i have missed ?

thanks for any help.....
 
DVI will make the picture quality a hell of a lot better, I can't really notice the different between my DVI and VGA on my 20" dell's, but on my old 17" monitor the VGA looked crap - perhaps dell have supplied me with decent VGA cables :)
 
plasmahal said:
This is my first tft i've bought and i'm a bit disappointed at the picture quality. the text looks all blurry. I use tft's at work and the picture is pin sharp. I've fiddled with various settings. I can only get 75hz refresh rate on my x1600 radeon at 1280 x 1024. I'm using the vga connections. So do i need to use a dvi cable to get a sharp picture ? Is there specific drivers for this monitor ? Or is there a simple setting i have missed ?

thanks for any help.....
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You need to run it at 1440 x 900 resolution for optimal quality
 
If your running this Hanns-G at 1280 x 1024 then no wonder it looks awful :p Not even capable of actually running that res, has to be 1440 x 900 or lower.
 
Thanks that's made a massive improvement now. I had to force it in the ati control panel but sorted. next question though..... would i benefit anyway of using the vga lead but with a dvi adaptor at each end and then using the dvi sockets on the monitor and the pc ?

cheers...
 
Any Quake players (fast paced) have experience with this monitor ? as I'm thinking to get it too.

Also anyone know if this exists in black rather than silver ?

Thanks.
 
pallys said:
Any Quake players (fast paced) have experience with this monitor ? as I'm thinking to get it too.

Also anyone know if this exists in black rather than silver ?

Thanks.
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Yeah i play quake 4 online with mine and it's ace 1440x900 looks really nice
and no ghosting at all.
 
plasmahal said:
Thanks that's made a massive improvement now. I had to force it in the ati control panel but sorted. next question though..... would i benefit anyway of using the vga lead but with a dvi adaptor at each end and then using the dvi sockets on the monitor and the pc ?

cheers...
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No.
Its still going to be digital > analogue > digital just like using the vga connector.
 
Reading this thread is really tempting me to get two of these and sell my 17". I was set on getting a 20" widescreen but for less than a single one of those i can get two of these. It's a no brainer really.

Any more pics of a dual setup with these?

Thanks :)
 
Right I borrowed this from my housemate on Saturday... Its a lovely monitor. No ghosting, good quality, nice to look at and it was widescreen goodness.... Only problem I had was the strechting of games to fill the screen. My NEC can adapt the display to only show 800*600 for example with the black borders around the edge and stretch it to fill the screen... so I was playing Dawn of War which doesn't support WS modes and it looked distinctly odd. If only it would do what my NEC 17" does I would buy one tomorrow.
 
BlizzardX said:
Only problem I had was the strechting of games to fill the screen. My NEC can adapt the display to only show 800*600 for example with the black borders around the edge and stretch it to fill the screen... so I was playing Dawn of War which doesn't support WS modes and it looked distinctly odd. If only it would do what my NEC 17" does I would buy one tomorrow.
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That is the one problem it has. I was concerned about this initially but i've found that i can't tell if a game is stretched or not and playing bf2 at 1280x1024 is fine for me. If you're used to having aspect scaling perhaps its a problem but it doesn't bother me at all.
 
pallys said:
Any Quake players (fast paced) have experience with this monitor ? as I'm thinking to get it too.

Also anyone know if this exists in black rather than silver ?

Thanks.
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Just to echo the poster above, I have been playing mmorgs/fps, namely doom and UT 2004, you will need to spend a good few mins tweaking the colours to get it just as you want it, which is to be expected, but once you have it right its a realy excellent monitor for the price.

Speaking of the price it has gone up £4 in the last few days :(
Im a cheap skate so i'll wait and hopefully it will hit £99 some time before christmas (unlikely) then i'll snap up another one for some duel screen loving.

Anyway it has my seal of approval, and with a 3 year on site warrenty, can't realy go wrong. Well it might, but thats what the warrenty is for :D
 
pallys said:
does this have the 1:1 pixel stretching feature ?
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No it does not have either hardware or software 1.1 pixel mapping/aspect scaling, so games without widescreen resolutions need to be either hacked or will be stretched. As i said above, i don't find stretched games a problem at all.
 
I was looking at possibly running one of the these through a KVM switch, but given the poor reports of the VGA image quality this worries me.

What would happen if I plugged the digital connector into one machine, and the analog into another? Can you flick between them easily?
 
NeilFawcett said:
I was looking at possibly running one of the these through a KVM switch, but given the poor reports of the VGA image quality this worries me.

What would happen if I plugged the digital connector into one machine, and the analog into another? Can you flick between them easily?
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You have to press the menu button, scroll along to the video source menu, press the menu button again to enter it and then select analogue or digital. You then press menu again to exit the source menu and select exit.
 
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