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    Anyone know the definitive answer on Samsung's dead pixel policy for the USA?

    Awesome, thanks :) Am I correct in thinking that you deal directly with Samsung for a replacement? Also do you know whether it only applies to 2005 and onward screens? Or does it apply to any screen purchased after jan 1st 2005? many thanks again!
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    Anyone know the definitive answer on Samsung's dead pixel policy for the USA?

    I've seen several computer news sites announcing samsung's new dead pixel policy, which started on january 1st.. apparently they'll replace any screen with 1 or more dead pixels.. However, then I saw another link which suggested this is only applicable in Korea. Samsung's website states that...
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    Monitor reccomendations please

    Although I originally didn't want an LCD, I've seen that newegg are doing a samsung 710n-2 17" lcd for well within my budget right now.. It's a 17" LCD, 12ms response, has 300cd/m2 brightness rating, and 600:1 contrast ratio. I really haven't had much use with these LCD screens, I wanted...
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    Monitor reccomendations please

    Thanks again guys, the samsung is actually looking quite promising. I don't see a lot of difference between the 997DF and the 990DF, except the 990 is totally black vs black/silver. It says the 997 has "Magictune" and "Natural color pro" whatever those mean. There's a $20 difference in...
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    Monitor reccomendations please

    Samsung 990DF seems to be quite good, it has .20 dot pitch, which sounds pretty good. Slightly concerning is that it's about $40-$50 cheaper than the viewsonic one I'm sending back... Anyone have one of these? Thanks for the opinions so far :)
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    Monitor reccomendations please

    Hi all, I'm looking for a new monitor that preferably has all of these features: 19" CRT black casing 1280 x 1024 @ 85hz + I'm getting rid of my viewsonic g90f because it's image quality is terrible. Sadly I've only had it a week and am going to incur quite a lot of cost to get rid of...
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    Does this sound like a defective monitor, or am I missing something?

    Thanks for the info, that's *exactly* my concern. I've read reports/reviews online of people doing the exact same thing, sending theirs back to viewsonic because of poor text quality (I also have this problem it appears to drift in and out of focus), but it sounds like it often takes one or...
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    Does this sound like a defective monitor, or am I missing something?

    I have just got a brand new monitor, a viewsonic 19" model G90F. I have a couple of issues with it though, the first is that when what's displayed on the screen changes from mostly dark, to having some white (i.e my wallpaper is black, I open a new notepad file which is white), the screen...
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    Odd question - Old video card outperforms new one.. why?

    Ok, I've updated the BIOS, and also the chipset drivers to the latest versions. This morning I ran 3dmark 2001se on the system with both cards, the ti4200 got around 6500, the geforce 1 got around 2400. So certainly in synthetic benchmark now the ti4200 is significantly faster. However...
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    Sorry it's been done to death.. system temperatures ok?

    I've just put together a new system, important parts are as follows: 500w Athenatech Power supply Pentium 4 Northwood 3.2ghz 800mhz FSB CPU 2 x hard drives in caddies 1 x hard drive in case 2 x optical drives. The case has 1 x 80mm intake fan, the drive caddies each have a 40mm intake...
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    Odd question - Old video card outperforms new one.. why?

    Yup - using the same version of directX (9.0c). 256mb of main system ram yes. Haven't tried updating the BIOS, thanks for the suggestion. Will give that a try and if it doesn't help, will post the DirectX dump. Oh, and yes it's definately time for an upgrade on that machine!
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    Odd question - Old video card outperforms new one.. why?

    I'm sorry, it's a geforce 1 SDR 32mb card, and a geforce 4 ti4200 128mb card. Clearly a faster card, I'm just curious as to why it may be underperforming in this system.
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    Odd question - Old video card outperforms new one.. why?

    The system it's in is an AMD Athlon 1100, 256mb ram, 100mhz FSB. The card that was in there, is a geforce 1, 32mb. The card that I replaced it with is a geforce 4, 128mb. I've tried several driver sets, but the geforce 1 outperforms the geforce 4, the 4 is very choppy in games and...
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    Desparately seeking advice on this weird video/PnP/windows? issue.

    Now my visuals in 3d stuff are starting to screw up.. like complete loss of some textures at random times too. Wish the tech support would even BEGIN to acknowledge that the card at least *might* be faulty. They've just told me to reinstall the drivers :( I feel like I'm going around in circles...
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    Desparately seeking advice on this weird video/PnP/windows? issue.

    Yup the LCD was hooked up to the same output port on the card as the CRT's. Refresh rate is about the only thing I'm left with now like you say. Although the LCD ran fine at 75Hz, no problems at all, the CRT's have problems at 85, so I backed it off to 75. They still had problems unfortunately...