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Sony LCD Questions

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donwan

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Just received my SDM-M81 flat panel - it is gorgeous as most of the reviewers have said.

I'm driving it analog with a GeForce2 MX - I do virtually no gaming.

Reading the older postings, some people seem to swear by their life that DVI makes an extraordinary difference. I think it looks awesome right now, but for those of you who have made the DVI switch, is it all that?

Also, older posts seem to favor Radeon 7500 for this type of application. I saw a Radeon 7000 at Staples for cheap, but I don't know if that would provide decent DVI 2D. I guess I would not be inclined to hamper a $1K monitor with a cheap video card. Thoughts?

Thanks!
Don
 
can't speak to the Radeon, but I can say a G550 put noticeable sparkle into my VG191. Expense isn't everything when it comes to cards though - most of what you pay for in an expensive card currently is 3D capabilities which by the sounds of things you won't use.

What other features are you after? My only complaint of the Matrox is it won't go over 60Hz in DVI at 1280X1024 while my monitor supports 75.
 
My TFT is natively 1280 x 1024 too. Do you run that resolution? Surfing is wierd at that size - very few pages seem optimized for that.

I don't really use a lot of features today. Great point about the expense of 3D GPUs. I'd like the best 2D performance possible, without paying for a lot of 3D processing. Don't know what that solution would be, however. I'm not using many additional features since about the only other video related thing I do is DV video editing, and I've got a separate firewire card for that. DVD playback too, I guess.

 
yes I operate at 1280X1024 and I browse a lot, but I don't do anything in full screen - ever. To me that was the point of a big LCD at fairly high res - getting enough real estate for several windows. I usually have 5 -10 windows going and can comfortably keep most of them on the screen at the same time with X-mouse.
 
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