I've noticed that Dell LCDs require a lot of tinkering to get the color juuuuust right. I had to turn down the brightness a lot on my DVI-connected 1704FPT. Brightness is at 50% and the RGB are all set to USER with 100% on all 3 colors. Then I went into my nVIDIA control panel to adjust the gamma to 0.66. Everything seems great on the desktop and games look super, too. I did not apply the gamma changes on games so that everything is quite bright and I am able to see things better in the dark. (I did this with my CRTs I've owned, too) All other settings in the nVIDIA control panel are left to default.