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| frankrede |
 Posted: 11/24/2007 11:46 AM Post subject: |
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| jrrdw wrote: | Was that 200 each? You didn't make the news this time. Wish i had spare money for wide screen anything, lol! Good deal man, congrats....... 
The sales rep at Gateway told me flat screens where no good for gaming? True? Untrue? | Thats bs. As long as you have a newer model and is good quality it should work fine. |
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| PCGUY |
| Posted: 11/24/2007 11:49 AM Post subject: |
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Flat screen monitors are fine for gaming, just ensure the one you pick has a fairly high contrast ratio (at least 700:1) and a fast refresh rate (at least 5ms).
Old LCD's did not have fast refresh rates, which would cause a "ghosting" effect when you played a game. Nearly all newer LCD's now have refresh rates fast enough to play games just fine. |
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| sandman |
| Posted: 11/24/2007 11:53 AM Post subject: |
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| PCGUY wrote: | I am stuck waiting for them to develop faster  |
oh, well with all this waiting it better be good, lol
just curious, how many programing languages do you know? |
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| Ragnarok |
| Posted: 11/24/2007 12:01 PM Post subject: |
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I thought it was different... my laptop has a 19" wide-screen set at a very rare 1440x900 (an 8:5 ratio).
You always assume it looks the same for everyone else, but that's obviously not the case. |
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| MrCrowley |
| Posted: 11/24/2007 15:30 PM Post subject: |
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| I've got a 19" LCD. The stretched lay-out I didn't really mind at all, this just looks a bit funny, I'll get used to it though. |
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| psycix |
| Posted: 11/25/2007 15:14 PM Post subject: |
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| Ragnarok wrote: | I thought it was different... my laptop has a 19" wide-screen set at a very rare 1440x900 (an 8:5 ratio).
You always assume it looks the same for everyone else, but that's obviously not the case. |
That 8:5 is a 16:10 actually.
That a normal ratio for widescreens on pc's
I know TV's use 16:9, but pc's mostly use 16:10 so dont worry.
I got a 22" widescreen myself (and a normal 17" next to it) and the 22"also has a 16:10 ratio.
I run a 1680x1050 resolution. |
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| ShowNoMercy |
| Posted: 11/25/2007 15:25 PM Post subject: |
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| I also went shopping but I got the same size flat screen for 170 at circuit city Thinking back I should have got two. Completely random tangent but can anyone point me in the direction to get the cord from a VGA output to xbox 360? |
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| TurboSuper |
| Posted: 11/25/2007 15:26 PM Post subject: |
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I got a 22" Viewsonic LCD. It's pretty awesome being able to see the serial numbers printed on the guns in CS:S, lol.
The only problem is you need a badass mofo of a graphics card to pump out graphics at the screen's native resolution. |
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| frankrede |
| Posted: 11/25/2007 16:46 PM Post subject: |
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| ShowNoMercy wrote: | | I also went shopping but I got the same size flat screen for 170 at circuit city Thinking back I should have got two. Completely random tangent but can anyone point me in the direction to get the cord from a VGA output to xbox 360? |
I believe bestbuy has them |
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| Killjoy |
| Posted: 11/25/2007 21:00 PM Post subject: |
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I got a 22" lg for 350 bucks a couple months ago from best buy, and I've concluded thats its the best money I've spent in a while (my desk no longer sags like it did with my 19" CRT which was having issues due to the fact I accidentally dropped a .22 round in a crack in one of the vents).
I never noticed spudfiles looking weird though, but thats probably because I always have multiple windows open. |
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| Velocity |
| Posted: 11/26/2007 2:02 AM Post subject: |
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Dreamweaver FTL! HTML FTW! 
Anyways, those look like really nice monitors. I am buying myself a 22" Samsung monitor, because my 19" is old and bad (not really; I just found a great deal, so I will take advantage of it ).
And get that Halo 3 garbage outta here. Gears of War 0wN5 it  |
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| Ragnarok |
| Posted: 11/26/2007 8:13 AM Post subject: |
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| psycix wrote: | | That 8:5 is a 16:10 actually. |
Not in my book - ratios should always be kept as simple as possible...  |
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| paaiyan |
| Posted: 11/26/2007 9:09 AM Post subject: |
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Hey PC, I got a 22' ACER with my new computer a couple months ago, they are nice. But I notice the huge amount of space on either side of the content all the time. I run it in 1650x1050. Though at the moment I'm at school using their tiny little 17' 4:3, poop.
Oh, and it's wonderful for gaming, I never see any ghosting at all. |
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| Velocity |
| Posted: 11/26/2007 13:23 PM Post subject: |
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| paaiyan wrote: | | ...I got a 22' ACER... |
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| paaiyan |
| Posted: 11/26/2007 13:25 PM Post subject: |
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| rmich732 wrote: | | paaiyan wrote: | | ...I got a 22' ACER... |
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I missed something.
EDIT: NVM, stupid sticking shift button... Wouldn't it be sweet if I had one that big though? |
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