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    help me pick a monitor please

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by dorado29, Jun 11, 2008.

  1. dorado29

    dorado29 Notebook Guru

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    ive been searching for a small flat panel for quite some time now. preferably one <20inches, cheap, and not very tall so its near the same height as my laptop screen. heres what ive found.

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-1704FPV-17...ryZ74935QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    http://cgi.ebay.com/Dell-1908FP-Fla...ryZ99227QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Lenovo-LCD-...ryZ99227QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

    do any of those look good? anything in particular i should look for in an LCD? (i have no idea what im doing tbh)

    feel free to post links to other monitor sales provided that its ok with the mods lol thanks
     
    dorado29, Jun 11, 2008
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    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    1st one is used. 1st and 2nd are SXGA that is a standard resolution. The 3rd is WXGA+. I like the Lenovo best. The price looks good even with hefty shipping charge.
     
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    dorado29 Notebook Guru

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    i just decided to run to the store and picked up an acer x163w 15.6 in wide screen. however, it seems to have fuzzy "rows"

    if the screen was the two bold lines then the fuzzy rows would be l l l l

    edit: and is there a break in time for monitors haha. this one flickers a bit and i was wondering if lcd's need to be used a bit before they work up to par
     
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    SpeedyMods Notebook Deity

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    Check what the monitor is running both in resolution and in the refresh rate. It should probably be 60hz refresh rate and the highest resolution that will fit on the monitor. The fuzzyness on a LCD is usually caused by running it in a lower resolution than the panel was designed for.

    Greg
     
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  5. Greg

    Greg Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    The Dell 19" is a horrible monitor. I use it at work, cannot say that anyone I know is happy with it. No monitor should "flicker" like you say it is...and should work 100% out of the box...
     
    Greg, Jun 11, 2008
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    dorado29 Notebook Guru

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    bought a dell 19inch widescreen (not the one thats said to be bad in the above posts)

    is it possible to have two different backgrounds? one on secondary (19 inch) monitor and the other on my laptop screen?
     
    dorado29, Jun 12, 2008
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    dorado29 Notebook Guru

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    anyone? these gray bars on the side of my second monitor are really annoying
     
    dorado29, Jun 13, 2008
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    Can you use the whole second screen, or is only the middle part between the grey bars active screen space? Also, what GPU do you have?
     
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    yeah i can use the whole thing its just that the background on my laptop monitor is the same background on the second monitor, same size and everything. how do i figure out what gpu i have?
     
    dorado29, Jun 13, 2008
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