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

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Note that the Radeon 7000 is originally specified to max out at 1280x1024 on DVI. It _might_ do 1680x1050, but to be safe, you should go at least with a 9000 series chip (9200, 9250). For a few dollars more than those, the minimum choice for a current-generation (DX9) card would be a 9550SE.

NVidia cards are a bit luck-of-draw, because of NVidia's high resolution signal quality issues on the integrated DVI transmitter. That said, at work I run a Dell 2005FPW from an AOpen FX5200 without any problem, alongside a 19" CRT from the same card's analog output. I don't know (nor care in this case) whether the card is running a reduced-frequency mode to compensate.

As for color calibration: Running from a DVI signal gives you most accurate reproduction of the supplied picture. Calibration will have to come from the graphics card's gamma curves, simply because on DVI, the panel does not do ANY image processing whatsoever - the only adjustment is backlight brightness.
 
Peter, for what it's worth I ran a Radeon 7500 with my 2005FPW, and I had some interesting results... Using the DVI out, I didn't get a picture until WinXP was loading, no POST screen. When using VGA, I could see the POST screen, but about half the times I booted into Win my screen would be stretched vertically and squished horizontally. I could see enough to go into the properties and manually select 1680x1050, which would fix it, but it would happen again. The image quality was fine with either the DVI or the VGA once everyhting was working though.
 
i have a 2005FP, and am curious about the possibility of getting a second vid-card and having a 17" Dell TFT flanking the widescreen on either side.

do the 1704FPs have a similar screen height to the 2005FP?

i know the vertical resolution s don't match exactly but i would be running them as the second screen, not a massive stretched single screen?
 
R3MF,

At work I use a laptop with a 17" widescreen LCD and a 17"CRT (with about 15-16" viewable). The lap is 1440x900, the crt is 1024x768. It works prettty nice.. the nvidia software I use on the laptop puts the tops together, so if I want to move the mouse over to the other monitor it has to be in the top 768 pixels of the widescree or it wont go. No biggie. Its really quite useful.. you can maximize windows in both screens seperately.. I do a lot of database work and being able to run multiple windows proved very useful after I got used to it.

So, different size is no problem as long as you remember you can slide over from the bottom of the higher res to the lower res.. The software also lets you set up to make the second be top, left, right, or bottom of the main.

HTH

Regards,

Artuk
 
I got my 2005FPW a few weeks ago and it 0wnz0r. Beautiful image, widescreen gaming is great. Only thing is that now I haveto play games at native 1680x1050 res my poor old system cannot cope.
I now have to upgrade the lot to an Athlon64/GF7800 combo goodness.

Current is:
Alton XP 2400+
512 DDR266
GeForce FX5900
 
i know this is an old post, but i just got mine tonight. wow, is it beautiful. even with the brightness turned all the way down to 30, i think it's still giving me a headache lol.
 
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