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Just got my Dell 2412....IPS Rocks

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FearoftheNight

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Just got my first decent IPS screen (6-bit I know). This is noticeably higher quality than my Planar 27in. Colors....viewing angles..rich...amazing 🙂 🙂 🙂
 
FearoftheNight said:
Just got my first decent IPS screen (6-bit I know). This is noticeably higher quality than my Planar 27in. Colors....viewing angles..rich...amazing 🙂 🙂 🙂
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IKR. I have an NEC EA231WMi that has an e-ips panel. It's just so good compared to TN. Try to find a custom color calibration ICC. It will make it that much better.
 
I run dual Dell 2412M's here at work. They are great displays for the price. Not the best on the market, but great bang for the buck!
 
FearoftheNight said:
what kind of place do you work? my company gave me a pos 19in tn dell from like 07 ! =XX
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I work in software development, but I shouldn't name for which company. I was running three 19" Dell LCD's (1280x1024), but it just got extremely aggravating constantly having to scroll side to side. TFS basically requires a widescreen to use efficiently, and its SO much nicer to look at code without scrolling side to side. Also came in handy when sniffing IPv6 traffic in Wireshark.

The only real downside is graphics get a bit slow. I drive them with a Dell Precision M4600. For whatever reason, the Quadro only powers one of them, while the Intel HD3000 drives the other and the internal (I run with it open for tripple head). I have yet to figure out how to get the Quadro to drive the two externals, and the Intel just drive the built in.
 
We've got U2410s at my place (biscuit company), with I think 40" HDTVs (for surveillance camera monitoring that our managers use in a multi-monitor config. We're pretty up to date technology wise, all pc's are running Windows 7 Pro. The only thing that sucks is that the employee computer (to be used during breaks/lunch) has a POS 20" 4:3 TN on a Pentium 4 single core... shit is slow as heck.
 
Stuka87 said:
I work in software development, but I shouldn't name for which company. I was running three 19" Dell LCD's (1280x1024), but it just got extremely aggravating constantly having to scroll side to side. TFS basically requires a widescreen to use efficiently, and its SO much nicer to look at code without scrolling side to side. Also came in handy when sniffing IPv6 traffic in Wireshark.

The only real downside is graphics get a bit slow. I drive them with a Dell Precision M4600. For whatever reason, the Quadro only powers one of them, while the Intel HD3000 drives the other and the internal (I run with it open for tripple head). I have yet to figure out how to get the Quadro to drive the two externals, and the Intel just drive the built in.
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My Quadro has a single dual link DVI out and then a dongle that splits it to drive two independent monitors. Not sure what the dongle is called or whether it can run your two monitors effectively? Some of our other workstations have Firepro cards for eyefinity support pout of the box.
 
brybir said:
My Quadro has a single dual link DVI out and then a dongle that splits it to drive two independent monitors. Not sure what the dongle is called or whether it can run your two monitors effectively? Some of our other workstations have Firepro cards for eyefinity support pout of the box.
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My Optiplex Desktop has that setup, however the M4600 is a 15.6" mobile workstation (laptop). I dock it, and have the displays connected to it. Although you just made me think of something. I have the smaller sized dock which has a single VGA, and a single DVI. There is a larger one that has dual DVI outputs. Makes me wonder if then the Quadro would drive both. Its possible the VGA is hardwired to the integrated graphics.
 
Got my 2412 coming as well. Can't wait. Been stuck on a 22" Chimei for the last 5 years (it was pretty sweet back then though 😛)
 
superjim said:
Once you go IPS you can't go back. I tried it once, IPS to TN, sent it back the next day.
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Yep, once I went IPS with my 30" I was amazed by the quality, I'll never go back. My only problem right now is that I'm started to get interested in 3D gaming as a possibility and want to find a decent 120hz monitor that isn't TN :/
 
PrincessFrosty said:
Yep, once I went IPS with my 30" I was amazed by the quality, I'll never go back. My only problem right now is that I'm started to get interested in 3D gaming as a possibility and want to find a decent 120hz monitor that isn't TN :/
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I don't know the technical differences between the TN and IPS panels, but will IPS ever be able to do 3D? Or does something about the way they work prevent that?
 
It is all a matter of response times. There is nothing inherently stopping an IPS panel from running at 120Hz or 12000Hz.

In my opinion IPS panels are prime time to start releasing at 120Hz. Although there might be some slight motion blur when receiving that many frames per second, I don't believe it will be the end of the world.

Active 3D however puts a hard requirement on response times. If a pixel is not done changing states when the glasses flip, you are going to see "crosstalk" with the last unfinished frame. TN panels already have a hard enough time reaching a true 8.3ms response time, it will take at least a few more years for IPS panels to get low enough to start listing a 3D specification.
 
I love my Dell. Just got it a few months ago. Will never go back to TN.

But I will admit that I am already waiting for some OLED monitors to hit the market. They will put IPS to shame.
 
Edrick said:
I love my Dell. Just got it a few months ago. Will never go back to TN.

But I will admit that I am already waiting for some OLED monitors to hit the market. They will put IPS to shame.
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I actually dislike OLED's (or the ones I have seen on phones anyway). They are WAY over saturated and have pretty poor color replication. But, that could just be the way phone makers calibrate them.
 
Stuka87 said:
I actually dislike OLED's (or the ones I have seen on phones anyway). They are WAY over saturated and have pretty poor color replication. But, that could just be the way phone makers calibrate them.
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I feel that is the way the phone makers are calibrating them. Once we see monitors released, I am sure they will be able to be calibrated by the user. These will be marketed at the same people that IPS displays are marketed at today. And these people (professionals, photographers, etc.) need to be able to calibrate their monitors. If OLED does not let you calibrate the saturation level for some weird reason, it will fail as a monitor technology.
 
Yeah, it is amazing at how cheap TN panels are though. I bought my HP ZR24W for pretty much the same price I bought my previous Mag V700 (19" CRT, that was specced at 100HZ for 1600x1200.) Both were ~$450. It amazes me that you can get such large TN monitors for only maybe $100.
 
Still in love with my aging 2007 Dell S-IPS (6ms). Others may have bigger screens, but the picture and the viewing angles are the truth. Every TN panel I see looks painful by comparison.
 
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