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Asus 23.6" LCD for $230 + free shipping.
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My monitor is a little bit wider than my keyboard, as a size guide.
When I first received my LCD, the colors weren't quite right, and I had a hard time adjusting them. Another owner of the same LCD created a calibration file (color management ICM file) that fixed it right up - something to keep in mind - there might be a color file out there for this LCD is the file on the CD isn't very good.
I can't find where I downloaded my color profile for my monitor (Soyo Topaz) but here is another Anandtech thread with profiles calibrated with ColorEyes:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...AR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Branch
and there was another thread started for getting color calibrations for various monitors, but I think the thread died off...
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...id=2002685&STARTPAGE=1
I've bought quite a few cheap LCDs, and often the colors are not set well from the factory. I actually prefer my colors to be a little more vibrant and "cartoonish" on my LCDs compared to the calibrated colors, but the calibrtions gives a good starting point.
I got this monitor for the $230 price and it has been working great for COD4 for a few days now. The factory display settings, as on all tvs and monitors, are retina burning so it is a must to turn the brightness down. No dead pixels and the reviews at newegg tell the real story of this monitor. Don't know if you can beat the price:value.
well each mode has a different setting for brightness from 0-100. Game mode came set at 80 or 90 I set it back to 75 but standard mode was also very high set it to about 60. It's possible they are not all preset the same. I had to do the same thing with my samsung 52" LCD. The Samsung technician informed me that all the TVs come preset to the highest possible brightness as it has been proven that consumers naturally are attracted to the brightest tv on display.
I would not claim to be professional enough to recommend settings but I found it to be much brighter than necessary out of the box for viewing webpages.
I would not claim to be professional enough to recommend settings but I found it to be much brighter than necessary out of the box for viewing webpages.
funboy6942
Lifer
I've always liked using this to calibrate my monitors
It's quick and easy to use. It has a flashing portion of the tests that may fix some stuck pixals as well, but all in all, it has everything and more you can need in a very simple to use calibration tool to calibrate any monitor, tv, or projector.
OH I forgot the best feature of it, its FREE 🙂
It's quick and easy to use. It has a flashing portion of the tests that may fix some stuck pixals as well, but all in all, it has everything and more you can need in a very simple to use calibration tool to calibrate any monitor, tv, or projector.
OH I forgot the best feature of it, its FREE 🙂
funboy6942
Lifer
Its pretty self explanitory in the menu for the test what is to be done with each one. You dont need a book to tell you you must put your settings at XXXX, just go through the tests and do what looks good to you in terms of the whites looking like white, the greys grey, blacks blacks, and even focus. Once you go through it all and make all the nessasary changes in the end its really up to you in how it should look for all eyes are different. Mine may look good to me, but to you it may be a shade off, and this test allows you to set it up to your liking and not being told it needs to be blah blah blah, and when your done, it have a green red, or yellow hue to the picture because you went by the book.
Just fire that program up and experiment, have fun, and set it to where you feel you have the best picture, color pops out at you, and you can see details in the shadows of games and movies, for thats what its all about, and with everyone here running pretty much different screens as well, its going to be really hard to say put your brightness at -3, contrast to +5, red down 30% and up your blues to 23% leaving green alone.
Start with number one, and do what it says each test pattern is for and you all will be ok 🙂
I promise 😉
Just fire that program up and experiment, have fun, and set it to where you feel you have the best picture, color pops out at you, and you can see details in the shadows of games and movies, for thats what its all about, and with everyone here running pretty much different screens as well, its going to be really hard to say put your brightness at -3, contrast to +5, red down 30% and up your blues to 23% leaving green alone.
Start with number one, and do what it says each test pattern is for and you all will be ok 🙂
I promise 😉
alexfort93
Member
Too bad it won't work on 64-bit 🙁
alexfort93
Member
The nokia monitor test won't work on 64-bit. I'm not talking about the actual monitor 😛
Got mine in yesterday. No dead pixels or anything else. I ran the Nokia calibrator and after adjusting the brightness and contrast a little, I am very happy with the results. I can't get over how much this LCD is better than my old Samsung.
Thanks again for posting the deal and also the link to the calibration tools.
Thanks again for posting the deal and also the link to the calibration tools.
Damn; how is it when I look for something all the hot deals have passed. I would have bit in a heartbeat on this. I would probably even buy one for $250 w/ free shipping, but price is now $250 plus shipping.
I can get an Acer 23" or 24" for about the same price, but not sure how the Acer monitors compare. May just have to keep an eye out on the deals
I can get an Acer 23" or 24" for about the same price, but not sure how the Acer monitors compare. May just have to keep an eye out on the deals
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