I am planning on getting the Dell 2005FPW soon, i'm just waiting for the price to drop abit more then i'll purchase it for sure. It's still a good deal even at $561. Do i really need to purchase a decent video card inorder to optimize this monitor at native resolution 1680x1050? Doesn't everything became small and hard to read at the resolution? My motherboard doesn't have an AGP slot but it does have an PCI slot. I'm not gonna spend $200 on a video card since i dont game on my pc, but i'm planning on watching a few DVD movies on the monitor. Will a $50 PCI card be able to optimize the 2005FPW at it's native resolution or better yet using the onboard graphic without having to purchase a video card?
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Do i need to upgrade a video card inorder to optimize the Dell 2005FPW?
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uOpt
Golden Member
You won't be able to spend $200 on a PCI card anyway.
I think onboard can drive 2D at that resolution just fine anyway. If you have intact driver for the hardware supported video scaling/conversions you should be all set.
About the fonts being too small: this display has the same DPI as most others, it is not a very high-DPI screen like some notebooks have.
I think onboard can drive 2D at that resolution just fine anyway. If you have intact driver for the hardware supported video scaling/conversions you should be all set.
About the fonts being too small: this display has the same DPI as most others, it is not a very high-DPI screen like some notebooks have.
uOpt
Golden Member
It's not nearly as easy as you make it.
Almost all applications, and especially games, have some text areas that they don't scale, mostly menus.
In webpages pictures don't scale up. Can be bad if the picture has text and even if not it is annoying. At the very least the scaling of the fonts around the picture ruins the layout of the page.
Flash doesn't react to the global font settings either and I've never seen a flash application that allowed any kind of font scaling.
Personally I am getting annoyed by high-DPI displays. We are really not in the world of just xterm and emacs anymore.
But the 2405 should be fine as it has standard DPI.
MercenaryForHire
Lifer
It's not a bad deal - it's just not a deal at all. 😉
- M4H
are you sure onboard graphic could handle the Dell 2005FPW without any lag? If you take a look at the requirement video cards on their site, all those video card are pretty extreme.
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/prod...hs&cs=19&sku=320-4111&category_id=4009
I downloaded a few HD video clips from here
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window...ent_provider/film/ContentShowcase.aspx
and it's lag really bad on my pc. One of the major factor is that i dont have a graphic card on my system.
I would try to get the 2005FPW for less than $500, if you can wait. Aside from that, you're really going to want to use DVI with that monitor, so you should get a decent graphics card. If you're planning on a system upgrade, wait and go to PCI-e and use the onboard graphics to limp along until then.
uOpt
Golden Member
Having not tried it myself I am not sure.
From a theory standpoint the video scaling and conversion support for the onboard Intel graphics cards should be good enough to do the 2005fpw. The number of pixels is not higher than normal 1280x1024 after all.
This requires intact drivers for the video hardware support and that the media player application actually uses them.
Keep in mind I am on Linux and FreeBSD, the proper use of available drivers is more common here. For example when people posted about the high-res video samples on the deals forum I could play them with a lot less CPU load than the Windoze users (on NVidia cards).
I am afraid there is no easy answer to that question and the devil is in the details of software application, driver chain and both GPU and CPU.
SynthDude2001
Lifer
The 2005FPW has been out since November or so, IIRC... (I've had mine since January)
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