zhopudey
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I'll get my Sapphire X800 GTO2 in november. :clap: ( hope its moddable).
I'm buying my new rig next month, and was thinking about getting a 19" monitor, as the x850xt pe can do 1600x1200 in most of today's games.
I know only of the Samsung 997DF, which s for around 12-13K. Any other monitor from viewsonic/phillips around the same price? And is anyone using the 997DF? How is it? I read the user reviews for the 990DF @egg. Though the majority were positive, there were a few specific negative reviews...
What is this vertical sweep thing hes complaining about?
Is there any affordable (<15K) 19" Viewsonic?
I'm buying my new rig next month, and was thinking about getting a 19" monitor, as the x850xt pe can do 1600x1200 in most of today's games.
I know only of the Samsung 997DF, which s for around 12-13K. Any other monitor from viewsonic/phillips around the same price? And is anyone using the 997DF? How is it? I read the user reviews for the 990DF @egg. Though the majority were positive, there were a few specific negative reviews...
I bought this monitor replace a NEC I have had for years, but was finally circling the drain. The fine dot pitch attracted me, plus that it was optimized for 1600x1200. Had I known about the incredibly poor sweep linearity of the monitor I would not have purchased it.
The picture at resolutions of 1280x1024 or 1024x768 is very distorted, and cannot be corrected by the monitor settings. It looks squeezed in the middle, and the focus varies significantly such that the middle of the screen is almost unusable.
At 1600x1200 the picture and the focus improve, but the sweep is not linear. The horizontal sweep starts slowly so that items on the left portion of the screen appear to be horizontally squeezed.
The color and brightness are good and it has a very good high voltage power supply so there is no perceptible picture blooming as the screen switches from light to dark.
Also the monitor will not sync to vertical refresh rates faster than 60 Hz with out the picture vibrating. I am very disappointed by this monitor.
As an engineer who spent 4 years of his career designing video displays for fighter planes I would recommend staying away from this monitor.
What is this vertical sweep thing hes complaining about?
First off, ill say that i'm an avid pc gamer. The quality of my monitor is very important to me. I purchased this monitor because the reviews were great, the dot pitch was very low, but sadly, the image quality is not what I expected. After using beautiful Viewsonic monitors for years, I have to say this was a let-down. Yes, the dot-pitch is low, but there's a catch. It's the *horizontal* dot-pitch only. The vertical dot-pitch seems high, thus the image quality is not as superb as my past two Vixxxxxcs. The Samsung website doesn't even list the vertical dot-pitch for this monitor, and now I know why. While the image quality isn't terrible by any means, i've just become used to better image quality. I recommend purchasing a Vxxxxxxic "graphics series" monitor instead. The extra money is definitely worth it if you are as picky about your monitor as I am. If newegg accepted exchanges on monitors, that is what i'd be doing right now.
Is there any affordable (<15K) 19" Viewsonic?