My new Dell 2405FPW - pictures & first impressions

Penfold99 · 23 Nov 2005 at 16:36

Got my component cable, and i am noticing that on some games in am getting lines down the screen? messing with the cables, i seem to be getting green and redish lines going down the screen??

also i am noticing some backlight in top right hand conrner?

Yaka · 23 Nov 2005 at 22:08

thats also a known fualt, heard and seem pcis of it in some other threads else where, contact dell

Penfold99 · 23 Nov 2005 at 22:26

which fault is that? the one about the component ? with the lines? or the backlight?

thx

Yaka · 24 Nov 2005 at 00:13

getining lines via component

Penfold99 · 24 Nov 2005 at 07:50

dam, will have to give them a ring later..

moogie · 24 Nov 2005 at 08:44

mine arrived yesterday
now just need to lengthen my arms so i can see all the screen

loving it

Hussman · 26 Nov 2005 at 09:06

Hi,

I'm hoping (fingers VERY crossed) to get one of these mega-monitors just after Xmas.

I'll be using it mainly for FS2004.

Can any one confirm you can play FS2004 on it ok?

I'll be running it from an AMD64 4000 with an x1800xl gfx card.

Has anyone out there got a similar system and is able to give me a rough idea of frame rates I can expect at 1900 x 1200 with all the eye-candy switched on.

Can't wait....

Thanks

Dave2150 · 26 Nov 2005 at 12:26

Hi, a similar request to the above post.

Can anyone play WoW at native res, 16xaf, 2-4xaa on with it being very smooth? (I hate lag spikes)?

Im using a A64 @2.8Ghz, 2gb ram, X1800XT 512mb,

Thanks

Ste · 26 Nov 2005 at 13:54

Yep you can!

I have a 3ghz P4 with X800XTPE and play WOW at 1900x1200x2AA @ 30-60fps. Odd drops to 20 but you have a much better CPU/card. You should get a lot more with that card.

Oh, and 2gb is essential for keeping IF in double figures, lol

Dave2150 · 26 Nov 2005 at 14:32

Ste said:
Yep you can!

I have a 3ghz P4 with X800XTPE and play WOW at 1900x1200x2AA @ 30-60fps. Odd drops to 20 but you have a much better CPU/card. You should get a lot more with that card.

Oh, and 2gb is essential for keeping IF in double figures, lol

Hmm thanks for that

Really thinking about getting this now - so much positive feedback :eek:

woody318 · 28 Nov 2005 at 19:10

Problems in setting up Pic by Pic on Dell 2405FPW

I'd really appreciate anyones help:

I have an ATI ASUS X700 Series PCI Express video card. The display is fabulous but:

In attemting to get Picture by Picture BOTH display outputs are enabled but can only select 1 or the other monitor ONLY at one time.

I have a real techy on this job but even he is totally puzzled.

Can anyone give me any pointers as to what the problem may be. Vid card and PC are all brand new.

Please help!!

Shocky-FM · 28 Nov 2005 at 20:03

If your not a gamer then congrats, if so then ouchy, that screen is NOT for gaming !

Chiribo · 28 Nov 2005 at 20:23

woody318 said:
I'd really appreciate anyones help:

I have an ATI ASUS X700 Series PCI Express video card. The display is fabulous but:

In attemting to get Picture by Picture BOTH display outputs are enabled but can only select 1 or the other monitor ONLY at one time.

I have a real techy on this job but even he is totally puzzled.

Can anyone give me any pointers as to what the problem may be. Vid card and PC are all brand new.

Please help!!

It just doesn't appear to offer that ability, well I checked it out on mine and when I was on DVI and tried using PiP/PbP the D-SUB option was blanked out. Mind you I didn't have anything pluged into the D-SUB input.

Anywho, I just dont think it offers it

Chiribo · 28 Nov 2005 at 20:28

I play WoW at native resolution with full details enabled, no AA or AF with my 9800XT and it still appears to run quite well! Practicaly always double figures, unless there's a lag spike

I have however enabled Vertical Sync with Triple Buffering as for some reason the game appeared to look choppy at points for me

It's *great* playing WoW at 1920x1200 with the UI scale set to .64, you just get soooo much more space and if you're a healer and use CT raid and whatnot you end up with a lot more space to put things and you can still see the action

REDD555 · 29 Nov 2005 at 08:36

Shocky-FM said:
If your not a gamer then congrats, if so then ouchy, that screen is NOT for gaming !

Played HL2 all the way through at 1920 and playing F.E.A.R. right now.

Both have to be seen to be believed. I can imagine that maybe impossibly fast paced games like Quake 3 or similar might have slight blurring but I've yet to try it. WoW and God games should be absolutely stunning though.

I guess this debate will rage on forever with LCD vs CRT gamers.

My advice is to see one running before you buy if you are worried.

Personally, coming from a illyama VMPro 450 19" CRT to this is a different world and I would NEVER go back

ic1male · 29 Nov 2005 at 13:09

I think the real benefit of this big screen will be in a year or two when graphics cards that can do 1920x1200 with all the goodies on and a nice 60 frames per second are available. I'm not sure what kind of performance you can get right now with SLi though.

ps3ud0 · 29 Nov 2005 at 14:10

ic1male said:
I think the real benefit of this big screen will be in a year or two when graphics cards that can do 1920x1200 with all the goodies on and a nice 60 frames per second are available. I'm not sure what kind of performance you can get right now with SLi though.

And in the same 1-2years we will have games that will require that kind of graphics power and it will still mean that to play them at the highest of reses with full IQ with AA/AF @ 60FPS+ will still need an unorthdox GPU solution as we have now with SLI/Xfire

...

Dont kid yourself - these resolutions in the future will still need very high end systems in a hope to power them...

ps3ud0 :cool:

REDD555 · 29 Nov 2005 at 14:20

ps3ud0 said:
Dont kid yourself - these resolutions in the future will still need very high end systems in a hope to power them...

ps3ud0

But you don't have to run at native on these things. Just love the huge real estate.

I am running fear at 1152xwhatever widescreen on it and it is beautiful.
The stretching to fit native resolution on tft's has come a very long way. So far so that even I was impressed

That said, HL2 runs beaut with a 7800GTX and A64 X2 4200 at full res, everything turned to max at the native 1920xblahblah.

ps3ud0 · 29 Nov 2005 at 14:29

REDD555 said:
But you don't have to run at native on these things. Just love the huge real estate.

I am running fear at 1152xwhatever widescreen on it and it is beautiful.
The stretching to fit native resolution on tft's has come a very long way. So far so that even I was impressed

That said, HL2 runs beaut with a 7800GTX and A64 X2 4200 at full res, everything turned to max at the native 1920xblahblah.

Which wasnt the point of my post and my quote

I just wanted to point out that with bigger and badder GFX cards there will always be bigger and badder (and bloated) versions of games to maintain a status quo...

Try running a game with an up-to-date engine (say FEAR), that has only recently come out - I doubt youll get playable/acceptable FPS on 1920x1200 (max eye candy) without resorting to SLI/Xfire (if that) - just something in life you have to accept...

ps3ud0 :cool:

REDD555 · 29 Nov 2005 at 14:35

Totally agree mate. Just saying the size not the res of the monitor is awesome and I still know a lot of people play 800x600 on things like Quake 3 to keep things super-silky even on high spec machines.

F.E.A.R doesn't even let you go to 1920x1200, max is 1600xsomething (tried it) and even at that my system struggles to keep things silky.

So, I agree........kind of....