My new Dell 2405FPW - pictures & first impressions

triggerthat · 24 Dec 2005 at 18:14

Baddass said:
only on fully dead pixels though, won't cover dead sub pixels (red / blue / green)

Ah fair enough. Still good enough.

Just wanted to be protected down the line.

mr_kipling · 26 Dec 2005 at 00:03

I'm in love with this thing! I have cancelled all plans of getting another 19" TFT and am saving up for this instead (well, waiting for my student loan to come through). Thanks for all the lively debate... I've read through most of this thread and looked at the pretty pictures.

Mr Bulbous · 26 Dec 2005 at 00:39

mr_kipling said:
I'm in love with this thing! I have cancelled all plans of getting another 19" TFT and am saving up for this instead (well, waiting for my student loan to come through). Thanks for all the lively debate... I've read through most of this thread and looked at the pretty pictures.

You wont be disappointed, best bit of hardware I've bought in years.

ted34 · 26 Dec 2005 at 19:28

What is dells warranty like on? Is it you phone them up and they send a courier with a BRAND NEW one who drops it off and picks up your old one at the same time?

triggerthat · 26 Dec 2005 at 20:52

Should be getting mine on Thursday.

Can't wait.

Klod · 27 Dec 2005 at 13:48

got myself one for xmas, was stunned at the size of it. Is amazing to work with. Sadly i got 1 lazy red pixel which i havnt been able to get rid of yet, its almost in the centre of he screen but i hardly notice it so im not to bothered.

Apart from flashing colours over it and rubbing it, is there anything else i can try?

ic1male · 27 Dec 2005 at 13:51

Does anybody have a photo of this monitor running Apple Mac OS X? I was wondering what that spangly OS looks like on it?

triggerthat · 27 Dec 2005 at 14:13

Klod said:
got myself one for xmas, was stunned at the size of it. Is amazing to work with. Sadly i got 1 lazy red pixel which i havnt been able to get rid of yet, its almost in the centre of he screen but i hardly notice it so im not to bothered.

Apart from flashing colours over it and rubbing it, is there anything else i can try?

Send it back? Just say your not happy with it.

Klod · 27 Dec 2005 at 15:04

pixel seems to have turned black now, was red on white background, now definiatly black, so i guess that means its dead =/

Yaka · 27 Dec 2005 at 15:49

get it replaced mate. it shouldnt be douing that

Exorcist · 27 Dec 2005 at 20:42

anyone got BF2: Special Forces working in the native resolution yet?

Shane 32 · 28 Dec 2005 at 12:48

Can anyone post any pictures of the connections from the back of the Dell 2405FPW as i am thinking of getting one

ic1male · 28 Dec 2005 at 13:00

1 AC power cord connector
2 DC power connector for Dell™ Sound Bar
3 S-Video connector
4 Composite video connector
5 Component video connectors
6 DVI connector
7 VGA connector
8 USB upstream port
9 USB downstream ports

Shane 32 · 28 Dec 2005 at 13:12

Great thanks for that , are dell keeping this model or are they going to replace it early next year , are any tft going to be HD ready in the future ?

ic1male · 28 Dec 2005 at 13:13

They're bringing out new models next year supposedly with the HDMI/HCPI do-dah thingy you need for HDTV and stuff.

Shane 32 · 28 Dec 2005 at 13:16

no not realy i am looking for a nice tft so i can play PS3 for future or maybe Xbox 360, i hear PS3 is HD , so i might wait , i have a Viewsonic 912B at the moment

triggerthat · 29 Dec 2005 at 14:45

Monitor has delivered this morning. It's fantastic. Was expecting the Composite quality to be better when playing on the dreamcast.

popdog · 29 Dec 2005 at 18:43

Has anyone managed to split the desktop using an ATI card? I bought this monitor from Overclockers for christmas and am really pleased with it

Would just like a way of "splitting" the desktop in two so that windows can be maximized to fill half the screen. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

This monitor is superb for Civilization 4

djohn · 29 Dec 2005 at 19:00

I think its done with the grid lines, I remember seeing something about this further back in this topic. Sorry I can't be more precise.

Found it for you.

Baddass said:
REALLY easy to do. It's just an option in the software which allows you to assign gridlines to wherever you want. I have the screen split exactly down the middle. Then all you do is hold ALT when you maximise a window and it fills it to the grid! very handy, and works a treat

I also set hot key short cuts to get the Nvidia drivers to rotate the screen so when i move it to portrait i just hit a button and sorted!

ps3ud0 · 29 Dec 2005 at 19:03

popdog said:
Has anyone managed to split the desktop using an ATI card? I bought this monitor from Overclockers for christmas and am really pleased with it

Would just like a way of "splitting" the desktop in two so that windows can be maximized to fill half the screen. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated

This monitor is superb for Civilization 4

Nope - I did make the suggestion to the Catalyst team back when I went from nVidia to ATI in May/June using the info I posted here - didnt hear anything back - that was just before 5.6s were out...

djohn - you are referring to nVidias drivers not ATis

ps3ud0