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Anyone have experience with the Sony SDM-P232W/B LCD panel?

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I'm toying with the crazy idea of buying one of these, but I haven't been able to find out exactly what is required to run it at full 1920x1200 resolution in digital mode. I've heard conflicting claims -- some say it requires two DVI outputs off a card like the FireGL4, others say that it can be driven by a single ordinary DVI output from a GeForce4 card. I thought that there was a bandwidth limitation on single-link DVI outputs that restricted them to 1600x1200 maximum resolution? Someone please enlighten me...
 
I have the Samsung 240T (which I personally think is better than the SDM-P232, because of its response time and I think the image quality also looks better, based on seeing the SDM-P232) running at 1920x1200 on the DVI output of my Radeon 9700Pro. The 240T is great for watching movies and playing games (I guess it has a 25ms pixel response time), and is an amazing monitor. It's also bigger than the Sony 🙂
But anyway, DVI is limited by the 165MHz TMDS, but the Samsung driver (I'm pretty sure) allows the higher display resolution by exploiting the blanking interval (necessary for CRTs, but not for LCDs). I'm not sure if the Sony driver can also do that though...
but I recommend the Samsung 240T. Right around the same price (around $3000) 🙂
 
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