I'm about to get a new wide lcd screen (my first own one), but I have
no idea which brand / model to get.
The minimum requirements are 1680x1050 native resolution (as my laptop)
and 5ms response time (fast enough for GTR/GTR2). There is no need for
speakers or DVI input, as I have speakers and woofer and laptop has
only VGA and S-video outs. (The graph processor is 256Mb ATI Mobility
Radeon X1600).
Any information helping me to right direction is appreciated.
TIA, Matt
The latter is a cheaper option in the UK anyway.
Andi.
Using a Samsung 225BW here at that resolution, and it's fine for racing
sims - in fact it's probably better as a *** monitor than anything else.
The color needs tweaking out of the box, but that's not a big deal. Looks
like ***running 16bit color, but that only affects GPL for me - dunno what
else anyone might still be running in 16bit.
Looks like all the current crop of 22" panels are price-point models, so
they're not the very best best for color rendition, etc. But they are quite
good values and some can be had for less than $300 on sale. BeHardware has
a decent roundup of the current 22's at: http://www.racesimcentral.net/
The only thing I regret about getting the 225BW is I wish I'd gone bigger...
;-)
SB
Steve Blankenship kirjoitti:
Samsung 225BW sounds good to me. I'll go and try one out on weekend.
Please let me know more about the color tweaking.
Matt
Really not much to it; it's just a matter of running the calibration utility
since the presets aren't that great. There are apparently only one or two
different 22" panels out there so far, so the various brands of 22" displays
tend to look and perform a lot alike. You just have to get hands-on with
them to see how they look to you in various apps or buy from somewhere with
a liberal return/exchage policy.
SB
Steve Blankenship enlightened us with:
>> I'm about to get a new wide lcd screen (my first own one), but I have
>> no idea which brand / model to get.
>> The minimum requirements are 1680x1050 native resolution (as my
>> laptop) and 5ms response time (fast enough for GTR/GTR2). There is
>> no need for speakers or DVI input, as I have speakers and woofer and
>> laptop has only VGA and S-video outs. (The graph processor is 256Mb
>> ATI Mobility Radeon X1600).
>> Any information helping me to right direction is appreciated.
>> TIA, Matt
> Using a Samsung 225BW here at that resolution, and it's fine for
> racing sims - in fact it's probably better as a *** monitor than
> anything else. The color needs tweaking out of the box, but that's
> not a big deal. Looks like ***running 16bit color, but that only
> affects GPL for me - dunno what else anyone might still be running in
> 16bit.
> Looks like all the current crop of 22" panels are price-point models,
> so they're not the very best best for color rendition, etc. But they
> are quite good values and some can be had for less than $300 on sale.
> BeHardware has a decent roundup of the current 22's at:
> http://www.racesimcentral.net/
> The only thing I regret about getting the 225BW is I wish I'd gone
> bigger... ;-)
> SB
The Acer isn't that expensive, but runs with, I think, 8 ms or 6 ms, I see
no traces, it's fine.
Rolf
> I'm about to get a new wide lcd screen (my first own one), but I have
> no idea which brand / model to get.
> The minimum requirements are 1680x1050 native resolution (as my laptop)
> and 5ms response time (fast enough for GTR/GTR2). There is no need for
> speakers or DVI input, as I have speakers and woofer and laptop has
> only VGA and S-video outs. (The graph processor is 256Mb ATI Mobility
> Radeon X1600).
> Any information helping me to right direction is appreciated.
> TIA, Matt
Niles Anders
http://flog.com
Steve Blankenship kirjoitti:
Got the 225BW today with 3 years on site "replace with new"" guaranty.
Still some tweaking to do, but so far so good!
Matt
