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Finally made the switch to LCD!!!

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Hey guys,
I noticed there is a big thread going on about the Samsung 710N, but I picked up the 712N locally tonite and it's perfect! I got it at Circuit City for $459 with a $50 MIR and a coupon for a giftcard worth 10% of my total purchase so the deal was pretty nice after all. I am running it with my 9800 AIW PRO, and all I can say is WOW. At 1280x1024 @70hz this things simply rocks. I couldn't get the driver cd to work properly in WinXP so I hopped on the net and pulled the latest driver off Samsung's website and installed in a snap. Text was very blurry at first and some letters seemed to be bolded almost like ThIS. I used the auto adjust button and it fixed the problem right away. I haven't had much chance for gaming, but I did play a few minutes of Doom 3 and the difference between my old ViewSonice CRT is like night and day. There isn't much of a big price/performance with this monitor vs the 710N at NewEgg, so if you don't waiting for a MIR, I would try one out locally. The ability to return it if there is a pixel problem is what finally made my mind up for me.


Josh
 
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I feel the same way about my Sharp LCD vs. my CRT.

There's a huge difference.


Oh, & btw, using Cleartype helps alot for reading text.

That page will not work in Firefox sadly, fyi (gotta use IE to turn on Cleartype).
 
Funny i just posted this. I've been thinking about "the switch" as well.
What model Viewsonic were you using? I'm curious about how your experience with Doom3 goes as well.
 
I am using clear type. The funny is that I tried out large fonts at first and enabled Cleartype. Everything looked great, but I wanted to see what the major difference between normal and large fonts would be, so I switched back to normal. The text was very blurry even with Cleartype on, so I tried turning it off then back on. It didn't help so I hit the auto adjust and everything was beautiful once again.
 
Originally posted by: n7
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I feel the same way about my Sharp LCD vs. my CRT.

There's a huge difference.


Oh, & btw, using Cleartype helps alot for reading text.

That page will not work in Firefox sadly, fyi (gotta use IE to turn on Cleartype).
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So ClearType doesn't work in Firefox?
 
It works with Firefox AFAIK, but you cannot change the Cleartype settings, or enable it (i can't, anyway).
 
My LCD gets blurry text when I set the refresh to 70hz. I leave it at 60hz, and everything is sharp as a fine Swiss knife.
 
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