OK, so I bought the westy mentioned in this thread:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...&keyword1=westinghouse
The monitor is beautiful. The brightness is outstanding. The response time, ok.
The price, unbeatable. I just cannot get over how gorgeous things look on it.
Here's the problem. I play an FPS called Unreal Tournament 2004. It is VERY fast paced. When playing on this monitor, while I wouldn't call it ghosting, there is definitely a noticeable "lag" that I detect. After 60 days of playing with this monitor, I still have not gotten used to it. The other "knock" against the monitor is the fact that it is 1900x1080 only.
To complicate matters, I have my trusted FW900 sitting next to it. Best CRT ever made. It probably needs a good calibration, but it's chugging along nicely, and is smooth as buttah at 1900x1200. And it can go plenty higher than that once I get a card to drive it higher.
So what do you guys think? Will I get used to it if I give it more time? If I haven't gotten used to it by now I should return it? Anything LCD wise out there now or coming down the pike worth looking at that will rival my FW900? What's the response time I should be looking for?
There have been so many glowing reviews out there of the westy. So many so that it makes me question my judgements a little. But I can't help think that some of these folks are looking through rose colored glasses, coming from something so much worse to begin with that they can't make a proper comaprison, or just happy with the bragging rights of gaming on a 37" monitor.
So what do you guys think?
Thanks for your consideration.
Rich
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...&keyword1=westinghouse
The monitor is beautiful. The brightness is outstanding. The response time, ok.
The price, unbeatable. I just cannot get over how gorgeous things look on it.
Here's the problem. I play an FPS called Unreal Tournament 2004. It is VERY fast paced. When playing on this monitor, while I wouldn't call it ghosting, there is definitely a noticeable "lag" that I detect. After 60 days of playing with this monitor, I still have not gotten used to it. The other "knock" against the monitor is the fact that it is 1900x1080 only.
To complicate matters, I have my trusted FW900 sitting next to it. Best CRT ever made. It probably needs a good calibration, but it's chugging along nicely, and is smooth as buttah at 1900x1200. And it can go plenty higher than that once I get a card to drive it higher.
So what do you guys think? Will I get used to it if I give it more time? If I haven't gotten used to it by now I should return it? Anything LCD wise out there now or coming down the pike worth looking at that will rival my FW900? What's the response time I should be looking for?
There have been so many glowing reviews out there of the westy. So many so that it makes me question my judgements a little. But I can't help think that some of these folks are looking through rose colored glasses, coming from something so much worse to begin with that they can't make a proper comaprison, or just happy with the bragging rights of gaming on a 37" monitor.
So what do you guys think?
Thanks for your consideration.
Rich