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Dell 2405 LCD
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 21:35
by Woo Elephant Yeah
Instead of upgrading my PC, I bought one of these 24" Widescreen thingamybobs
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http://www.dell.com/downloads/jp/corpor ... 405fpw.jpg[/img]
It rocks! And games like COD2 & Quake 4 look beautiful
It means I dont have 2 x19" screens now, but it takes up less room on my PC desk, and the only thing I used the second screen for was teamspeak anyway, so I'm not too bothered.
Once I move I will buy a new desk/unit so that I can put all my consoles in it as well, and play them all through the 5 different inputs
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 21:47
by tandino
That's lully, I'm after a nice flatscreen too, how much?
Posted: May 2nd, 2006, 7:58
by Woo Elephant Yeah
tandino wrote:That's lully, I'm after a nice flatscreen too, how much?
Bought it off a friend secondhand, but they are £650 brand new
Posted: May 2nd, 2006, 8:22
by tandino
/Has a birthday soon
/doesn't know anyone rich enough to buy me one
/asks girlfriend
/still doesn't know anyone rich enough to buy me one
Posted: May 4th, 2006, 12:23
by mrbobbins
Does this beauty have a 16ms response time?
How is it for crazy gaming?, any ghosting or whatnot? I havn't had any experience myself gaming on flat panels,
I may have an option to get a cheap 2005FPW you see, and though the reponse time wouldn't stop me getting it even if it isn't great, it would still be nice to know
Posted: May 4th, 2006, 13:56
by Woo Elephant Yeah
mrbobbins wrote:Does this beauty have a 16ms response time?
How is it for crazy gaming?, any ghosting or whatnot? I havn't had any experience myself gaming on flat panels,
I may have an option to get a cheap 2005FPW you see, and though the reponse time wouldn't stop me getting it even if it isn't great, it would still be nice to know
This review sums it up quite well
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/dell2405/index3.htm
Click on previous 2 pages for stats and stuff, but no, I haven't seen any ghosting.
The drawback is the card trying to run at a higher resolution, but other than that, it's ace.
Posted: May 4th, 2006, 14:10
by Dr. kitteny berk
mrbobbins wrote:I may have an option to get a cheap 2005FPW you see, and though the reponse time wouldn't stop me getting it even if it isn't great, it would still be nice to know
DO IT.
these dell monitors are very much the dog's bollocks.
though i do have to play ut04 in a window, or my brain dies.
Posted: May 4th, 2006, 16:07
by mrbobbins
Cheers dudes, I am desiring the 2005fpw a tad more now, although you have awakened within me an evil temptress of the 24" variety
<a href="
http://www.autdirect.co.uk/cgi-bin/sh00 ... 1MONTFT24D" target="_blank">£450?</a>
<a href="
http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/Pr ... sting.aspx" target="_blank">£942?</a>
Posted: May 4th, 2006, 16:11
by Dr. kitteny berk
get the 2005ftw, upgrade your graphics card.
donate the rest to bukkake
Posted: May 4th, 2006, 16:23
by mrbobbins
Dr. kitteny berk wrote:get the 2005ftw, upgrade your graphics card.
donate the rest to bukkake
well if you take into account the full Dell retail price you'd probably end up with several hundred pounds for Bukkake, even after a 7900gtx SLI system upgrade
Posted: May 4th, 2006, 16:24
by Dr. kitteny berk
mrbobbins wrote: well if you take into account the full Dell retail price you'd probably end up with several hundred pounds for Bukkake, even after a 7900gtx SLI system upgrade
I know
Posted: May 5th, 2006, 9:32
by Woo Elephant Yeah
Oddly enough I bought the 2405 second hand off a friend for £450, so I can't really comment.
P.S. They rotate too, but why on earth you'd need a widescreen rotated to portrate I don't know.
Fantastic for viewing websites with and document writing, but that's about it.
Posted: May 5th, 2006, 13:17
by Lateralus
Large pics of nekkid ladies standing up?
Posted: May 5th, 2006, 13:19
by Dr. kitteny berk
Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:P.S. They rotate too, but why on earth you'd need a widescreen rotated to portrate I don't know.
Fantastic for viewing websites with and document writing, but that's about it.
Be careful with that anyway, if you route the power cable neatly, it can make very bad noises on rotamatings.
Posted: May 9th, 2006, 10:17
by mrbobbins
So after my 2005fpw plan fell through I accidentally bought the credit card busting one, oopsy!, I just sort of clicked purchase in some kind of no-widescreen-fun-for-bobbins type daze,
Although Karma is catching up with me and telling me what a bad idea it was
The Monitor People wrote:I am very sorry about this. There has been a mistake at our end which is abit embarrassing after asking you so many questions. I went to the warehouse today to ship your monitor out to you only to find that someone else had sent it out to another customer yesterday not realising it had been reserved for you.
We are expecting another delivery of Dells at the end of this week if you are on to wait till then. otherwise I can cancel the order for you if this is to late.
*returns to hueg-widescreen-fun-filled-daze*
