Just ordered a new monitor.24"

fbm211

I just ordered a Acer G245Hbmid Olympic Edition 24" Widescreen LCD Display from amazon.They dont have the BS pixel policy other sellers do.:D

Ive never had an LCD so Im wodering if I can expect around the same performance (fps)I get with my sony GDM400ps 19" monitor.I currently run everything at 1024x768 res...The acer has a native resolution of 1920x1080.
I have a XFX 4890 vid card,E8400 cpu,2gigs of crucial 1066 DDR2 memory and an Xfi pro fatality sound card.Running XP home.:o

drselect

Enjoy, you should like it, I have Acer P224w (24"-widescreen) and have been very pleased with it. Don't do much gaming though. Just mostly surfing and very little video editing. The biggest problem I have had so far with it was not ordering two.

nguyendot

I run 2 gateways right now, 21 and 24. Love them. I'm hoping they'll come out with some 24" LEDs so I can flush wall mount them in front of the desk!

Congrats on the purchase

cfrizz

Drool! Very nice, congrats & enjoy.

Osarion

You should have no issues with frame rates using that card at that resolution. The 4890 is a solid card. Congrats on the new monitor!

fbm211

Are you saying at the native resolution of 1920x1080?

Osarion

Yeah at 1920x1080 Here's some numbers for ya, http://www.anandtech.com/show/2745/18 It gets good fps all the way through 2560x1600 in Fallout 3.

Sherardp

I run a 26" screen and it is very nice. You should be very content with your purchase. I have a friend who has an Acer, nice display.

cnh

So you're running that as a computer monitor....sheeesh..my bedroom LCD is a 24", lol. It's sort of funny because the audio system in there is better than the TV? Should really have a 32" due to the distance from the bed? Oh well...at least I have good sound!

cnh

wutadumsn23

cnh wrote: »

So you're running that as a computer monitor....sheeesh..my bedroom LCD is a 24", lol. It's sort of funny because the audio system in there is better than the TV? Should really have a 32" due to the distance from the bed? Oh well...at least I have good sound!

cnh

And soon to be eye problems, lol.

-Jeff

Sherardp

Lasareath wrote: »

I have the same display as Sherardp and I Love it now, When I first got it I didn't so much because I was using the VGA cable and my Monitor looks like crap with a VGA cable. I had to use a DVI cable and it looks so much better

Sherardp are you sure it's 26" because you told me you have the same as me and mine an LG W2753V-pf and it is 27"






I like having the 27" on my PC because when my wife is watching Dancing with the Stars I can watch shows on mine while sitting at my computer desk.

Las I have the 26 and the 27 bro. I run the 26 in the office and the other @home. I recently got my daughter a 22" (spoiled 9yr old)and she loves it. I was thinking of going to a 32 " LCD and using it as a monitor since they have them on sale here for 400 bucks. Not sure if I need that much screen though.

drselect

Sherardp, I am using a sharp 32" LCD both as a second monitor and tv. It works fairly well for when my youngest wants to watch a video from disney or netflix. But I think I rather have two 24" monitors for none video watching instead of a 24 and a 32..

Sherardp

32" is huge, just not sure my desk will fit it since I have a promedia ultra setup as sound. I will probably take some measurements and see if it will work for me, worst case I mount it on the bookcase and use it for movie playback in the office or playing the 360 on lunch.

nguyendot

You can always get the new 6 head ATI cards and run 6 monitors.... pick and choose which you want for video

fbm211

Sherardp wrote: »

32" is huge, just not sure my desk will fit it since I have a promedia ultra setup as sound. I will probably take some measurements and see if it will work for me, worst case I mount it on the bookcase and use it for movie playback in the office or playing the 360 on lunch.

I have the v2-400 setup but my rear speakers are not working anymore.This is a common problem with the Klipsch promedia systems and thankfully there are some people out there who can fix them and add a cooling fan in the sub so it doesnt happen again.I will spend the 100.00 or so bucks to get these working again.Ive tried other systems and they dont even come close to the Klipsch.Its sad they stopped making them.

fbm211

Awsome.They shipped it out today and it should be here friday.
Ill post some pics of it too.As long as it has no dead pixels that is.

MacLeod

A 4890 will play just about any game with very high graphics level at 1920x1080. There may be a few like Crysis or Far Cry 2 that you cant crank up to max levels but keep the AA off and you will still get great performance. The 4890 is an awesome card.

Im rolling a 22" Acer myself and am a fan. The darks are a little light but the rest of the colors are spot on and for $50 less than comparable 22's, Im happy.

fbm211

Here are some pics.Im not sure if I like this yet as it seem very bright even after I turned the brightness down from 85 to 32.I have yet to run some games but Ill get in some dragon age play and need for speed most wanted and see how that goes.
Is it normal for the club polk and other internet pages to be in 4/3 format?:eek:

Seems its time to move the desk and clean up the dust and cobwebs.The things you find after taking pics is crazy.I never noticed that since I keep this area in very dim lighting.

fbm211

Well,it still seems too bright but I was messing around with some settings Catalyst control center and found a Digital Panel (DVI) which had a brightness setting and turning it down to -6 gave me a perfect black level.So it didnt look washed out anynore.And then I went into the color adjustments and clicked the Reactivate ATI color controls and that messed things up again.Now I cant get that damn ATI color control to shut off and uninstalling CCC,then a reinstall doesnt work nor did system restore.It must have put something into the registry that the ATI uninstall utility doesnt remove.So it looks like a Fresh XP install is in the very near furture.Time to back up some things to another hard drive and start over.Damn I hate doing that.It takes hours to get everything back to the way it was.But then again you get that fresh snap only a new install can give you.

audiobliss

That looks huge! Hope you get your software issue figured out.

What speakers are those? I'm using Klipsch Promedia 2.1, but I only have two knobs on my speaker, and I notice you have three. Just has me curious.

eddylight

I run a Samsung Syncmaster P2570HD and it is GODLY. It's like owning a plasma/lcd hybrid in terms of screen image quality. Amazing. I can't imagine a better monitor.

fbm211

audiobliss wrote: »

That looks huge! Hope you get your software issue figured out.

What speakers are those? I'm using Klipsch Promedia 2.1, but I only have two knobs on my speaker, and I notice you have three. Just has me curious.

I have the promedia V2-400...4.1.The extra nob is for the rear speakers but the rear right is not working.Some caps and resistors need to be replaced.Ill be sending it out to someone for repair and to have a cooling unit installed in the sub.

fbm211

Ill be installing win 7 soon sal.Along with one of those new WD VelociRaptor hard drives.

Im wondering if winXP detecting this monitor as a plug and play monitor could be a problem.It has no XP driver.Only a vista driver that I could find.Hmmm.

MacLeod

I just tried that trick of dropping the brightness in CCC and it did work pretty well for me. My Acer also has kinda washed out blacks and I could never fix them properly in the controls but the overall color was pretty damn good so I lived with it. I dropped the brightness on mine -15 and it made a very nice improvement. Thanks for the tip!

dorokusai

I would hope that you hate yourself every day when you look at those Klipsch speakers. tsk tsk

fbm211

Now now.I got them 10 years ago or so before I got back into the audiophile stuff.Does polk have anything even close to the promedia 4.1 system.Its pretty hard to beat even these days.

fbm211

MacLeod wrote: »

I just tried that trick of dropping the brightness in CCC and it did work pretty well for me. My Acer also has kinda washed out blacks and I could never fix them properly in the controls but the overall color was pretty damn good so I lived with it. I dropped the brightness on mine -15 and it made a very nice improvement. Thanks for the tip!

Did you use the color tab or the Digital panel(DVI)

Sherardp

I have the Ultra promedias running off of an Asus Xonar D2 sound card and they sound very good. The next thing up from these to me would be an AVR with bookshelfs. They are very good for the money and yes it does suck they are no longer made.

fbm211

Would that asus xonar card be an improvement over my Xfi fatality pro card.

nguyendot

I want to try the xonar card sometime, I hear good things. I just hooked up the E-MU 1212m last night and need to try it out with the new amps I have.

MacLeod

fbm211 wrote: »

Did you use the color tab or the Digital panel(DVI)

I just use the color tab. I didnt dig around enough to find the digital menu. I'll check that out when I get home tonight.