The Dell 3008WFP Thread

Great, its finally available on OcUK. I`m now waiting on some users reviews about the smearing in fast paced games problem, etc before I decide whether I want one of these or Dell`s 2408.

I already have £2,400 saved up for my ultimate high end gaming system and im now saving money up right now for the screen, and this should take me about 4-5 months more at the latest, so I have plenty of time to check thread for users experience.

I also hope the price will go down a bit more by then.
 
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Jihad said:
It's great, everything is perfect including apps (Word etc) web browsing and gaming, the pixels are much smaller on these screens (or something like that) so despite the screen being so large it still looks great.

Not had any ghosting on games or anything else and this has a 8ms response time!

This TV blows my old Benq monitor out of the water in terms of colours and contrast, I stopped using my Benq as a secondary because the difference was so dramatic and just got annoying!

Here's an old close up of my TV on the desktop, see how sharp the text is;
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Oh, Team Fortress 2 looks mind blowing. :D
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What TV is that?
 
Right i got this monitor today, only been using it 20 mins so far.

So far i can say this:

REALLY great colours, pi**es all over my Dell 2405 in this department, and that already had good colours. Better than any other LCD i've seen in this department (and i've seen a lot, and have owned a lot). It's up there with professional CRT's, and i'd say surpasses them in some areas.

As for ghosting/smearing whatever you want to call it - the monitor is rated at 8ms, but i'd say it's closer to 12ms. What i was expecting really, the bigger and higher res you go, the harder it technically is to deal with response times. Higher res monitors never have as low response as lower res ones. It's the same with monitors that can display more colours too, for instance the crappy 6bit monitors (2ms/4ms) sacrifice colour quality for faster response time. So being as this Dell 3008 is both high res and displays 117% colour gamut i think they have done a decent job here, and i'll doubt your'll get much better with 30" screens in the short-ish term.



I'll do a big fat long review in a day or two when i've used it more, will post pics too. :cool:
 
MR.B said:
Right i got this monitor today, only been using it 20 mins so far.

So far i can say this:

REALLY great colours, pi**es all over my Dell 2405 in this department, and that already had good colours. Better than any other LCD i've seen in this department (and i've seen a lot, and have owned a lot). It's up there with professional CRT's, and i'd say surpasses them in some areas.

As for ghosting/smearing whatever you want to call it - the monitor is rated at 8ms, but i'd say it's closer to 12ms. What i was expecting really, the bigger and higher res you go, the harder it technically is to deal with response times. Higher res monitors never have as low response as lower res ones. It's the same with monitors that can display more colours too, for instance the crappy 6bit monitors (2ms/4ms) sacrifice colour quality for faster response time. So being as this Dell 3008 is both high res and displays 117% colour gamut i think they have done a decent job here, and i'll doubt your'll get much better with 30" screens in the short-ish term.



I'll do a big fat long review in a day or two when i've used it more, will post pics too. :cool:
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I hope you`ll also post in your review about this screens scaling compatibilities when on lower resolutions, and using HD Movies, as the comments in this thread: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=10935182&posted=1#post10935182
 
Mr. B !!

i'm planning to buy this monitor as soon as my mum pays me back the £1000 i lent her for the bills (short cuzza christmas) ;D

very glad to hear that you're going to do a review on it with consoles in mind..

i noticed really bad tearing in Halo 3 with my last Dell monitor, so if you have Halo 3 could you test that for me? turn around really fast and see if you can see any tearing lines..

also, World of Warcraft. (boo! that games the devil!) - yes i know, yes i know... but this game was the game that gave me the most black ghosting issues with the 2407wfp-hc ... so if you happen to have world of warcraft could you please test this screen in that game? or find a friend who can? ;p
- basically if you look at a straight line, tree trunk, corner of a wall etc.. and you move the camera left and right slowly, do you notice black ghosting effects following the lines of the corners?

eagerly awaiting your words of wisdom ;D

Ta,
Draz.
 
Anyone been able to find mention of someone calibrating this beast with a hardware unit and posting the results and/or graphs of the DeltaE values? Really interested to see what it can do.
 
i found another review on HardForum:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1262533

it's by a normal gamer, so it's an amature review, but i think that's a good thing... it gives us a look at what the screens really like for a normal person.

appears to be a bit of backlight bleeding from both guys monitors in that thread; but they say that it's exaggurated by the cameras they're using. - still... if a little bit of backlight bleed it the only downfall, i think i can live with that ;p

plus there's a hothardware review incase you haven't already seen it:

http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/Dell_UltraSharp_3008WFP_30inch_LCD_With_DisplayPort/
 
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I dont know why someone would take pictures of the monitors colours/contrast and so on when the camera is that rubbish. It gives you absolutely NO idea of how it actually looks.

I'll have my review up soon (late tonight or early tomorrow) just gotta test the monitor with my PS3. Also i have a professional SLR camera and the pics i've taken are infinitely more accurate than the ones in that forum post, or any reviews i've seen so far.
 
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Great review thank you very much.

Even though I know, it might be good to include the number/type of ports on the monitor jus for easy reference
 
Awesome Mr.B !

no tearing, non-noticeable smearing and great colours.

I'm deffinately going to get my hands on one of these as soon as i get paid ;D

P.S. - i agree with you on the 'ghosting' being innacurately used to describe smearing, i always thought it was weird people used that word when in actual fact ghosting is meant to be what happens over coax when the screen displays multiple signals as ghost images next to the origional.
 
MR.B,

When viewing HD movies in windows using the screens native resolution of 2560 x 1600, and using a software player, like PowerDVD, does the movies display in full HD mode, without the movie picture being stretched to much, etc? or do you have to drop the resolution down to 1920x1080 for proper HD content display? and what`s this screen like for standard movie format playback, like XviD, DivX, DVDs, etc?
 
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