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    Dell new 20" wide LCD 2005FPW. Has anyone seen this beast?

    And it doesn't even look like he had that game configured for the widescreen. It looks a little like it is just stretched out. With the new games in widescreen format you actually get to see more around you.
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    Dell new 20" wide LCD 2005FPW. Has anyone seen this beast?

    I saw that as well and I don't think the points are bad, but it seems to me that there are a couple of things to keep in mind. One - LCD's are not CRT's and while no LCD may be able to produce the level of blackness of a crt you also don't have to devote a 3 x 3 foot foot cube on your desktop...
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    Dell new 20" wide LCD 2005FPW. Has anyone seen this beast?

    Just so you know, Sadhu, I wasn't really complaining about smoothing the type in 98. I said that the font looked "funny" kind a stretched out, etc... meaning I'm still dealing with the resolution issues that I said I was just going to screw around with. "Screw around" because any combination...
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    Dell new 20" wide LCD 2005FPW. Has anyone seen this beast?

    I think clear type is an XP thing. I'm switching over to XP soon. I'm just doing one thing at a time. Is there a way to get clear type on any non-XP platforms?
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    Dell new 20" wide LCD 2005FPW. Has anyone seen this beast?

    Hey I went home last night and did some work on the new toy. For one issue, I did download the latest drivers from ATI at work yesterday and installed them at home (unfortunately no internet connection there yet.) This made the rotation tab come up in the advanced area of the display...
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    Dell new 20" wide LCD 2005FPW. Has anyone seen this beast?

    Good idea JasonLP. I don't know if you looked back in this thread at all, but I stayed home for a little while from work to receive the shipment this morning then could only stay long enough to set it up and check it out quickly before I had to split for work. I didn't really get a chance to...
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    Dell new 20" wide LCD 2005FPW. Has anyone seen this beast?

    Thanks again. I'm really just trying to get my computer to display in the 2005fpw's native resolution so that I can get a good look at it right now. For one this might make a difference as to whether I keep it or not and secondly, since I'm not playing any games at all and don't really need to...
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    Dell new 20" wide LCD 2005FPW. Has anyone seen this beast?

    Thanks everybody for you're putting up with my lack of information and my general lack of knowledge. To answer Sadhu's question; I'm not really a gamer now and don't plan on becoming one in the near future (although it looks pretty cool!) I will probably do a bunch of stuff in Photoshop...
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    Dell new 20" wide LCD 2005FPW. Has anyone seen this beast?

    Thanks again! Oddly enough I've seen searched through several threads where people have asked about specific recomondations, but others seem reluctant to head them. I think its just because in these kinds of threads most people are ficxated on the latest and the greatest, wehich I can...
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    Dell new 20" wide LCD 2005FPW. Has anyone seen this beast?

    Thanks for the reply. I breezed through that cd manual fairly quickly, but I didn't happen to catch anything that had to do with that. I'm still wondering if I can some how force my old graphics card to display in this monitor's native resolution. On the Dell site they just say "picture may...
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    Dell new 20" wide LCD 2005FPW. Has anyone seen this beast?

    Also, annoyingly, when I tried to go to the set up features of the monitor the vast majority of them were unavailable. For instance, the "self-adjust" function was just greyed out in the menu options along with all the other options, but one. I'm not sure what the limiting factor is here.
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    Dell new 20" wide LCD 2005FPW. Has anyone seen this beast?

    Hey, I just got my 2005fpw from delivered from DHL this morning. (No small task since I'm in Boston and there is a thousand feet of snow outside right now.) I only tried to set it up quickly and so didn't get a chance to put it through its paces or anything, but I have a bunch of newbie...
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    Fixed 2005fpw problem /w XP SP2 and old Video Card

    Hey, I'm glad to see that you resolved your driver issue. I actually have a bunch of newbie questions that relate to this. Everyone talks about the odd native resolution of the 2005fpw and I'm not sure how you go about getting your system to display it. I went ahead and got one of these...
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    Dell UltraSharp 2001FP/2005FPW Digital LCD = $554

    I ordered a 2005fpw with the 30% off 1/11 and got a ship date of 1/25. Two weeks. I guess I'll just have to be patient.