I jumped on the LCD bandwagon last night!!!

[Maverick]

My local Compusa got this monitor in and I couldn't resist

Haven't gotten to game with it...but there was some contention whether it was a true 16 ms panel or not. Any way for Joe Consumer to test that? Some of the guys in the store thought it was 16ms falling, 4 ms rising.

Monitor is gorgeous though...looking forward to trying it out for the next few days.

 

[ColinDoody]

how much?

 

[CraigRT]

yeah what does that baby go for?

looks sweet... viewsonic is awesome!

 

[JackBurton]

Thanks a sweet monitor dude. And I'm really picky too.

Haven't gotten to game with it...but there was some contention whether it was a true 16 ms panel or not. Any way for Joe Consumer to test that? Some of the guys in the store thought it was 16ms falling, 4 ms rising.

From the specs it looks like it is 16ms total time (rise and fall).

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: ColinDoody
how much?

Yeah tell us how much so we can tell you how badly you got burned on your impulse buy.

EDIT: NM, found it.

$799.97 - $100MIR = $699.97

I personally would have gone for this one @ $750 shipped.

Enjoy your purchase.

 

[Maverick]

Looks like you found the deal before I could reply. I got this instead of the Dell 2001FP because Dell charges tax in Missouri (where I unfortunately live). So I couldn't have gone for less than $800 for it. This one cost me $760 (after rebate) with tax. Plus no having to ship it back if it had dead pixels

Also I didn't want a 1600x1200 native res monitor because I don't expect to be able to run games at that res (especially HL2 and D3).

 

[jpeyton]

Originally posted by: Maverick
Looks like you found the deal before I could reply. I got this instead of the Dell 2001FP because Dell charges tax in Missouri (where I unfortunately live). So I couldn't have gone for less than $800 for it. This one cost me $760 (after rebate) with tax. Plus no having to ship it back if it had dead pixels

Also I didn't want a 1600x1200 native res monitor because I don't expect to be able to run games at that res (especially HL2 and D3).

Yeah I'm another spoiled Oregonian w/o sales tax. Enjoy the LCD; it has a really thin bezel.

 

[Maverick]

I used to be tax free with dell when I lived in a cool state...those were the good ol' days

 

[MrMaster]

The monitor looks good. Please let us know about gaming and watching DVD's.

Also, are you going to use the digital or analog inputs on it?

 

[Maverick]

right now analog because I don't have a DVI cable...need to find a place with cheap DVI cables.

Compusa only had a 10 foot DVI cable and they wanted 80 bucks for it!

 

[John]

Originally posted by: Maverick
right now analog because I don't have a DVI cable...need to find a place with cheap DVI cables.

Compusa only had a 10 foot DVI cable and they wanted 80 bucks for it!

2m DVI-D M/M DUAL LINK DIGITAL VIDEO CABLE $17.95

3m DVI-D M/M DUAL LINK DIGITAL VIDEO CABLE $19.95

 

[Maverick]

wow DVI cables are expensive...maybe I need to go to ebay or FS/FT

does it matter whether you get dual or single link for LCD monitors?

 

[GtPrOjEcTX]

wow, the cables didn't even come with the friggin monitor? sounds like monitors are trying to go the way of the printer (not including cables)


I got all sorts of cables when I bought my Dell LCD monitors.

 

[Maverick]

yeah its becoming more and more common to only get VGA cables.
I think they're just trying desperately to try to make LCDs cheaper...less in the box = lower prices