Monitor question

[Cow]

Ok I am thinking about purchasing THIS monitor for use on my PC and my xbox 360 but I have a few questions first:

1. Is this the best LCD monitor for the 400$ price range?
2. What kind of quality will this be for my 360? Will the quality be a 480/720/1080 signal? WILL IT BE IN-PROPORTION?
3. Will I be able to run this in DVI and my 17" Dell LCD in D-Sub on my 6800GT at the same time? (Dual monitor setup)


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[Cow]

Bump

[KamisoriX]

Now lets be funny here: your mon has a res of 1680x1050. How do you wanna watch 1080i on this one?
All squeez up and juice running out of the pics...eeeuuu.

if your card support dual moni then you can. it's not a brand royalty thingy for the card

Cow, that monitor is fine and it gets good reviews. You will be able to watch 1080i on it, however you will have to set it up in the GFX driver control panel as a native resolution. However, if you intend to run the 360 through it, you might find that it will play with aspect ratios or you might get away with just black borders around the image like trying to watch native widescreen on normal TVs.

[Choupolo]

Hey that's the monitor I've been eyeing up! Bit-tech reviewed that monitor recently against a few other brands, and it came out on top with good blacks, colours, IQ and no ghosting etc.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/03/3...monitors/5.html

But yea, one thing is its native res is high, so lower resolution signals like the 360 won't look their best. It is widescreen though, so the picture won't get distorted. (One problem I've been having is getting my 360 to do 5:4 non-widescreen for my non-widescreen LCD, the only game that does it is GRAW mp for some reason!)

Another thing is your gfx card needs to be powerful enough to run games in that high native res too, in order for them to look their best. And my 6800GT usually struggles with 1280x1024 mostly! Your 360 and other lower resolutions will still look good enough, but they'll always look slightly more blurry than they should. Tbh most of my games that have to run lower than my native res look fine including my 360. It's only some PC games that look very bad below my native res eg HL2/CS:S. So although it's a great monitor, its high res can be a draw back too...any way to try before you buy? :P

And I've never tried dual monitors but I'm guessing 6800GTs can cope with a DVI+D-SUB setup just fine. Gpu grunt is again an issue here if you want dual screen gaming! Mine has two dvi ports on it though, so I'd need two dvi monitors...

Personally I'm sticking to my 17" LG until I can afford to do an overhaul upgrade of my PC. :bucky!:

[KamisoriX]

i ordered =123&cHash=5ca7081d34]This one ages ago...it naver came thou...well, there are others.


shitty link address : http://eizo.de/lcddisplays.html?&user_products[uid]=123&cHash=5ca7081d34

[Cow]

Thanks for the help guys I am defo going to get this monitor

I do not plan on dual screen gaming just plan on having this moni hooked up to my 360 and My Dell 17" hooked up to my PC for the time being...There are not TOO many PC games that do widescreen atm and not to mention strain on the video card...so no point for that right now :thumbup:

[AKADeadly]

Get one for me 2 =\