Matthew on 25/3/2010 at 23:18
Quote Posted by Bikerdude
Firstly the video card you have will only run games comfortably with medium/high detail at nothing higher than 1680*1050, so at this point there is not reason to get a 24". Secondly your budget wont allow for even a half descent 24" monitor that's any good.
Wat? My HD4870 has no difficulty shifting most things at max or close to max on a 1920 x 1200 24" screen.
bikerdude on 26/3/2010 at 10:39
Quote Posted by Matthew
Wat? My HD4870 has no difficulty shifting most things at max or close to max on a 1920 x 1200 24" screen.
Depends on the game and the details setting though, wouldn't you agree.. For example something like Crysis, Stalker:CS, Batman:AS, Metro2033, Stalker:CoP, BioShock2, etc those games on medium to high detail setting(4*AA, 8*AF, Shader/Shadow*High) would drop below 24fps on a 4870/4890. I had a GTX285 and most of the above games ran flawlessly on my 20" @ 1680*1050, but....even at said resolution Crysis and Stalker:CS had to have some of their details turned down to run at or above 24fps.
Sulphur on 27/3/2010 at 17:00
Thanks, Biker! A 22" screen wouldn't be a bad idea, since the native res is usually 1680x1050 after all; we've got some Dell UltraSharps at work and those do look rather nice. The 2209WA looks pretty good actually, looks like it's time to go and do some shopping around. Thanks again!
Matthew on 28/3/2010 at 13:02
Quote Posted by Bikerdude
Depends on the game and the details setting though, wouldn't you agree.. For example something like Crysis, Stalker:CS, Batman:AS, Metro2033, Stalker:CoP, BioShock2, etc those games on medium to high detail setting(4*AA, 8*AF, Shader/Shadow*High) would drop below 24fps on a 4870/4890. I had a GTX285 and most of the above games ran flawlessly on my 20" @ 1680*1050, but....even at said resolution Crysis and Stalker:CS had to have some of their details turned down to run at or above 24fps.
Naturally, but Crysis is one of the games that I've run at high level details at 1920 x 1200 with no noticeable slowdown. Batman was laughably simple to run smoothly. I have no idea what frame rate I was getting, but it was enough that the game ran like silk so I doubt it was in the 20s or even 30s.
Sulphur on 28/3/2010 at 16:48
Crysis is easy to run on High details. It's those Very High DX10 bells and whistles that kill the framerate. I can't really bring myself to go back to High any more, even though the only big changes I see are more/better particle effects and object motion blur.
Anything running on UE3 is eminently playable at high settings on higher resolutions. It's the other games like Metro 2033, Cryostasis, etc. that tend to give even high-end systems a good pummelling right now.
Aja on 1/4/2010 at 19:49
Biker's probably gonna cringe ;) but after looking around I'm considering one of these: (
http://www.benq.ca/products/LCD/?product=914) a Benq V2210. Reviews are admittedly scarce, but I've been impressed with their stuff in the past, and the price is hard to beat (one shop here's selling it for $209!). Naturally I'll have to go take a look first (maybe I'll bring the PS3 and see if they'll let me hook it up.
They don't sell it in the US, but it seems to be quite similar (if not identical) to the (
http://www.benq.us/products/LCD/?product=884) V2200 Eco; reviews of that monitor (which are also pretty scarce) claim that it has some trouble distinguishing black levels. But I don't need a monitor for accuracy, I just want it to look pleasing. So, you know, $209.
bikerdude on 1/4/2010 at 23:35
On paper its a very nice looking monitor, LED backlight etc.. but I bet a pound to a pinch of shits its a TN based panel... so viewing angels may suffer and I would haved said blacks too, but this will be ofsset by the LED back light.
Aja on 2/4/2010 at 06:33
Well, I went to the store, it looked nice compared to the other similar panels (backlight is totally uniform). Return policy was 7-days no questions, 30 days for dead pixels and stuff. So I bought it, what did I have to lose?
The colours aren't quite as saturated as I'm used to (on admittedly older tech), but I managed to get it looking quite nice. Sideways view angles are good, vertical not so good, but with the tilt adjustment it's fine. It's sharp and clear and there's no ghosting that I've seen so far. It also seems to upscale pretty well. I'll still spend a bit more time evaluating it, but for the price I think it'd be hard to beat.
On another note, Biker, do you know of any calibration software (preferably free) that I could use to properly set this up? I got it looking great for games, less good for movies, and I'm wondering if a proper calibration test could achieve a single setting that works for everything.
Aja on 2/4/2010 at 08:55
Ah, it's actually looking pretty good. Without spending a ton more, I doubt I'd get much better.
LarryG on 4/4/2010 at 03:55
Quote Posted by Aja
... do you know of any calibration software (preferably free) that I could use to properly set this up? I got it looking great for games, less good for movies, and I'm wondering if a proper calibration test could achieve a single setting that works for everything.
You may want to check these sites:
