Gateway 18" LCD with DVI for $399 - Hot or Not?

[BuonaDomenica]

Q]that's the case with all LCDs, if digital is offered, analog won't be as good.[/quote]

The Only LCD Monitor i have seen no difference in screen quality Analog/DVI is the Samsung 191T. My friend bought one last year and I can't see any difference in quality when connected to tha Analog or DVI port on his ATI Radeon 7000 Video Card. Text and graphics are very crisp in both modes. Maybe on the older LCD screens is makes a bigger difference? It looks like the Gateway FPD1830 came out first in mid 2001.

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

really? you can't? my place of employment just bought around 30 of the 191ts, all hooked up to ibms with built in video (vga hookups)

text looks like crap in my opinion.

 

[Delbert]

Originally posted by: BuonaDomenica
Q]that's the case with all LCDs, if digital is offered, analog won't be as good.

The Only LCD Monitor i have seen no difference in screen quality Analog/DVI is the Samsung 191T. My friend bought one last year and I can't see any difference in quality when connected to tha Analog or DVI port on his ATI Radeon 7000 Video Card. Text and graphics are very crisp in both modes. Maybe on the older LCD screens is makes a bigger difference? It looks like the Gateway FPD1830 came out first in mid 2001.[/quote]

I heard the argument that you wouldn?t be able to tell the difference between analog and digital. For me it was night and day. I had some blurring and ghosting that completely disappeared when I went to DVI. In the spirit of hot deals I would like to say I found good prices on DVI cables HERE. at NWCA.com. Two 10 footers were $28.90 shipped.
Edit: should have noted that I switched from a dual head vga matrox card to a dual dvi head gf4 ti4600 which easly could have been the difference for me in quality between the two. My dual dvi card did not come with dvi/vga adapters or I could make a more fair comparison.

 

[woolfe88]

Originally posted by: wetcat007

Originally posted by: Wooster
Response times around 30ms. I don't think it's good for the games.

Nope probabily not, the only LCD's I've seen are good 16ms or less ones that are acceptable for games.

"Acceptable" is a moving target depending on your standards. I see very slight ghosting with 30ms displays, which is acceptable to me. If I were a perfectionist, I would agree that something under 20 is best.

Delbert:

Thanks for the tip on the DVI cables. I am getting two of the Gateways, one for myself and one for my wife, so two cables for $29 sounds great to me.

 

[Lee3Dee]