My new Dell 2405FPW - pictures & first impressions

Smiley Man · 4 Sep 2005 at 18:37

aargh

*makes a list of value of things in room*

crt £100
erm, what else

Baddass · 4 Sep 2005 at 18:38

you don't really need two kidneys do you

ukdave · 4 Sep 2005 at 18:43

Good choice on the backgroud Badass

I love my monitor sooo much, it's just brilliant. However unfortunately I've noticed yesterday that a pixel appears to have gotten stuck, or lazy or whatever the term is. I'm 99% certain it wasn't like that new as i would have noticed it. Luckily though you can't tell unless the screen is black.

Baddass · 4 Sep 2005 at 18:46

yeah, thanks for that background mate

looks good, need to have a look round for some new ones soon

Robert · 4 Sep 2005 at 20:15

Any chance you could post that wallpaper dude?

ukdave · 4 Sep 2005 at 20:17

It's here, with a few others: http://users.over-clock.com/ukdave/WS.rar

movingtables · 4 Sep 2005 at 20:44

Smiley Man said:
aargh

*makes a list of value of things in room*

crt £100
erm, what else

ebay alert

Smiley Man · 4 Sep 2005 at 20:48

hehe

yeah i'll be ebaying all my junk

Robert · 4 Sep 2005 at 20:51

Cheers mate.

tom_nieto · 4 Sep 2005 at 21:24

Baddass said:
no, there is DVI on the card but because it's a GeForce 4 ti4200 the DVI can only support 1600 x 1200 resolution! this thing is just too much of a beast for that!

That's a lie! I'm using 1920 x 1200 on my GF4 Ti4200. It's a Gainward one, but it shouldn't make any difference.

I'm just sad that I had less than 24 hours with mine before I had to go to Italy. This 19" goldfish bowl CRT is just so inferior. I'm glad I bought something at the right time for once! I know the prices keep going up and down, just lucky that I had enough cash.

Baddass · 4 Sep 2005 at 22:32

tom_nieto said:
That's a lie! I'm using 1920 x 1200 on my GF4 Ti4200. It's a Gainward one, but it shouldn't make any difference.

you sir are a legend! i admit i had never actually tried it, but when i ordered the monitor before i got it i checked every linked spec i could find for the card and it said DVI upt o 1600 x 1200 and i assumed it wouldnt support this res. running happily now on DVI-D!!

lovely, looks even sweeter now than it did before, very happy!

dannyjo22 · 5 Sep 2005 at 07:10

Thats incredible, because my gainward 5700 wouldnt run that high on dvi.

Baddass · 5 Sep 2005 at 08:06

this is some kind of magical card!! im very surprised it does this res on DVI and even more surprised games like GTA San Andreas run at 1920 x 1200 and full draw distance without a problem!

Exentia · 5 Sep 2005 at 08:12

Baddass said:
this is some kind of magical card!! im very surprised it does this res on DVI and even more surprised games like GTA San Andreas run at 1920 x 1200 and full draw distance without a problem!

Morning!

this card is a relic how on earth can it do that have you cross bred it with a 7800gtx or sumink

CossackNoodle · 5 Sep 2005 at 09:25

havent read all posts just seeing the orginal posters screens and wow i want one

daz.wallace · 5 Sep 2005 at 17:40

Got mine today and all I can say is wow :eek:

No dead pixels but haven't checked properly yet

Brum Man · 5 Sep 2005 at 21:10

I have just got mine and all I can say is :eek:

When I opened the box and took it out I actually said wow, it's just so big!

Just going to play now!

ukdave · 5 Sep 2005 at 21:12

If you feel the size is too big, just don't worry about it. You'll become totally used to it soon. 17" TFT's will look so tiny in comparison!

Mr Latte · 5 Sep 2005 at 21:27

Heres an image taken from a local Airshow a friend and i visted on Saturday.
Resized to 1920x1200

Removed due to B/W

Brum Man · 5 Sep 2005 at 21:40

Looks impressive!!

Although it is an awsome monitor I'm not quite sure whether the colour reproduction is as good/sharp as on my 2 year old LG 1710B........

Edit -although I've jsut darkened the gamma a bit doen to .96 and that seems to have made things a little better