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I ordered this monitor wednesday May 31st and received it Friday the second (My graduation day from high school woot!) From newegg.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116381
For $329 and $13 shipping.
First thing I noticed was the excellant boxing it came in. It was shipped tightly packed in foam with a clear plastic protector over the screen. I unpacked the monitor, set it up on my desk, and plugged it into my x1900xtx's Dvi port. Without any tuning the picture was already excellent!
I quickly set it to its native 1680x1050 resolution and fired up a 1080p (even though 1080 is 1900x1200) Wmvhd movie to test it out.
The first run was the dolphin video and flight video.
Excellant and vivid color reproduction was what I was soon awarded with. Video has never looked so good (especially alongside ATI's VIVO codec) Brights were bright, darks were dark, and only a minimal amount of backlight bleed (which is to be expected, and did not, nor does it bother me at all)
Next I booted up FS2004 (Flight Simulator 2004) because Im a flight addict, and it is also a good test of color reproduciton and banding. I maxed all the settings and ran the game at 1680x1050.
No ghosting whatsoever, and the cockpits and planes/airports have never looked so good! I cannot wait till FSX!
The next game on my list is Battlefield 2 (sorry ahead for the sub par pics) This game does not run natively in widescreen, so I went to widescreen gaming forum, and found a way to edit my shortcut to get the game to run in widescreen, sacrificing a bit of room at the top and bottom of the screen, and a stretched hud (not the monitors fault, blame dice for lack of widescreen support. However, the game itself was ot stretched, just the hud, and the games I played were great, ending me up 3rd and fourth in each map.
My Final game to test was Tomb Raider Legend, an equally dark, and bright game (from gloomy caaves to beautiful waterfall vistas! The game ran awesome, as it supported widescreen natively, and ran the game flawalessly at 1680x1050.
Next up came the net test, to see how hard on the eyes it was to read long posts in forums, and a general test of font clarity. The screen was excellant, no visible quality loss anywhere!
Finally I ran 3dmark 06 at 1680x1050 to see how it looks. Here is a video of the canyon flight at 1680x1050
Overall Im loving this monitor, I ran dead pixel buddy and came up with no dead pixels. I am very pleased and would encourage anybody considering a monitor to look closely at this model.
Additional pictures of the monitor can be found here:
--Skulk Out--
My Rig:
Amd fx-55
2gb Gskill 2-3-3-5 Ram
x1900xtx 512mb
Soundblaster Audigy 2
Gigabyte Nf4 Motherboard
Thermaltake cooler
8x Dvd-Rw
4x Dvd-Rw
Tycoon Fan controller
520w Ocz Powerstream Power Supply
2x120gb Wd Drives
Logitech g7 Wireless Mouse
Logitech Media Elite Keyboard (soon to be g15)
Lohitech z-640 5.1 surround sound
Viewsonic's VX2025WM 20.1 inch widescreen monitor
//all video and pictures temporarily removed for bandwidth reasons. sorry
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116381
For $329 and $13 shipping.
First thing I noticed was the excellant boxing it came in. It was shipped tightly packed in foam with a clear plastic protector over the screen. I unpacked the monitor, set it up on my desk, and plugged it into my x1900xtx's Dvi port. Without any tuning the picture was already excellent!
I quickly set it to its native 1680x1050 resolution and fired up a 1080p (even though 1080 is 1900x1200) Wmvhd movie to test it out.
The first run was the dolphin video and flight video.
Excellant and vivid color reproduction was what I was soon awarded with. Video has never looked so good (especially alongside ATI's VIVO codec) Brights were bright, darks were dark, and only a minimal amount of backlight bleed (which is to be expected, and did not, nor does it bother me at all)
Next I booted up FS2004 (Flight Simulator 2004) because Im a flight addict, and it is also a good test of color reproduciton and banding. I maxed all the settings and ran the game at 1680x1050.
No ghosting whatsoever, and the cockpits and planes/airports have never looked so good! I cannot wait till FSX!
The next game on my list is Battlefield 2 (sorry ahead for the sub par pics) This game does not run natively in widescreen, so I went to widescreen gaming forum, and found a way to edit my shortcut to get the game to run in widescreen, sacrificing a bit of room at the top and bottom of the screen, and a stretched hud (not the monitors fault, blame dice for lack of widescreen support. However, the game itself was ot stretched, just the hud, and the games I played were great, ending me up 3rd and fourth in each map.
My Final game to test was Tomb Raider Legend, an equally dark, and bright game (from gloomy caaves to beautiful waterfall vistas! The game ran awesome, as it supported widescreen natively, and ran the game flawalessly at 1680x1050.
Next up came the net test, to see how hard on the eyes it was to read long posts in forums, and a general test of font clarity. The screen was excellant, no visible quality loss anywhere!
Finally I ran 3dmark 06 at 1680x1050 to see how it looks. Here is a video of the canyon flight at 1680x1050
Overall Im loving this monitor, I ran dead pixel buddy and came up with no dead pixels. I am very pleased and would encourage anybody considering a monitor to look closely at this model.
Additional pictures of the monitor can be found here:
--Skulk Out--
My Rig:
Amd fx-55
2gb Gskill 2-3-3-5 Ram
x1900xtx 512mb
Soundblaster Audigy 2
Gigabyte Nf4 Motherboard
Thermaltake cooler
8x Dvd-Rw
4x Dvd-Rw
Tycoon Fan controller
520w Ocz Powerstream Power Supply
2x120gb Wd Drives
Logitech g7 Wireless Mouse
Logitech Media Elite Keyboard (soon to be g15)
Lohitech z-640 5.1 surround sound
Viewsonic's VX2025WM 20.1 inch widescreen monitor
(including comparisons to my 22" CRT)
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