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Hey all,
First post, but since I had gotten a lot of info here before purchasing my 244t I decided I would give back some too.
I have had the 24 Samsung 244t lcd for about a week and these are very unscientific and preliminary opinions of this beast.
Here she is:
Now, my first impression is wonderful! Coming from a Samsung 191T 19 lcd there is no going back
My 244t was manufactured in July 2006 and had 0 Dead and 0 Stuck pixels, Yay!
I must advise though, that because of unforeseen defective hardware I have not used the monitor on my new Core 2 Duo / P5W DH / 7950GX2 setup yet, I'm awaiting new parts :\
But instead this thing is chugging along on my laptop sporting a 128mb ATI 9700 mobility chip.
Yeah, nowhere NEAR how good a chip should be to support this thing. I havent done much else than browse webpages, watched movies, and loaded some 1080P content from Microsofts site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx
She looks beautiful when playing these IMAX quality videos, I also watched the Family Guy movie and Emperors New Grove (thanks to my GF..) and the brightness and color are very crisp and clean, much better than my 24 Samsung CRT TV and old 19 lcd.
But, on the point of INPUT LAG, this is where I discovered something today. I was at first sadly disappointed when all my research about the obvious input lag this monitor exhibits came true. Using a Logitech 2.4ghz wireless notebook mouse (just bought a week ago, its optical) there was a VERY noticeable input lag which really did bother me when working on the desktop, I couldnt seem to click anything that accurately, it was very discouraging. It felt that it wouldve taken a couple weeks and NO fps games to get used to. This optical notebook mouse doesn't exhibit any noticeable lag when being used with my laptop screen. Oh, and I did try hooking the receiver in both the USB hub on the 244t and directly into the laptop and experienced no noticeable difference.
However, this seems to all have changed today. Ive had this new Logitech G7 Laser in its box for a while, while I wait for my desktop to come together. Well, I decided to go ahead and try it today.
Laser vs. Optical (Both have a similarly sized 2.4ghz receiver)
Boy was I amazed, the G7 felt fast just like any other display i've used; it was as accurate and precise as I have always been used to on my old 19 lcd or even on my laptop screen. I am sold.
There are about a hundred variables though, as have been discussed in another thread before. I couldnt tell any difference (as behardware.com mentions) between 60hz and 75hz, v-sync is disabled, but has no effect on the desktop obviously. The fact that the monitor is running through a low quality graphics card and an analog plug that is going through a laptop probably doesnt help the situation of input lag, but the fact that since Ive been using the laser mouse I cant tell anyway, is good news.
Input lag still exists, sure, but I can no longer tell that it is there after I switched from an optical wireless mouse to a laser wireless mouse. That is really my 2 cents on that. Input lag relating to keyboard use is also unnoticeable and really hard to test anyway, so Ill leave it at that.
If anyone has any questions Ill try to clarify, but just thought I would throw this out there knowing that I was at first extremely disappointed in my 244t just for the input lag, but didnt want to risk the Dell 2407 and its banding issues. I hope to take more pictures and test some more once I actually hook this thing into a real desktop.
Thats all for now
First post, but since I had gotten a lot of info here before purchasing my 244t I decided I would give back some too.
I have had the 24 Samsung 244t lcd for about a week and these are very unscientific and preliminary opinions of this beast.
Here she is:
Now, my first impression is wonderful! Coming from a Samsung 191T 19 lcd there is no going back
My 244t was manufactured in July 2006 and had 0 Dead and 0 Stuck pixels, Yay!I must advise though, that because of unforeseen defective hardware I have not used the monitor on my new Core 2 Duo / P5W DH / 7950GX2 setup yet, I'm awaiting new parts :\
But instead this thing is chugging along on my laptop sporting a 128mb ATI 9700 mobility chip.
Yeah, nowhere NEAR how good a chip should be to support this thing. I havent done much else than browse webpages, watched movies, and loaded some 1080P content from Microsofts site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx
She looks beautiful when playing these IMAX quality videos, I also watched the Family Guy movie and Emperors New Grove (thanks to my GF..) and the brightness and color are very crisp and clean, much better than my 24 Samsung CRT TV and old 19 lcd.
But, on the point of INPUT LAG, this is where I discovered something today. I was at first sadly disappointed when all my research about the obvious input lag this monitor exhibits came true. Using a Logitech 2.4ghz wireless notebook mouse (just bought a week ago, its optical) there was a VERY noticeable input lag which really did bother me when working on the desktop, I couldnt seem to click anything that accurately, it was very discouraging. It felt that it wouldve taken a couple weeks and NO fps games to get used to. This optical notebook mouse doesn't exhibit any noticeable lag when being used with my laptop screen. Oh, and I did try hooking the receiver in both the USB hub on the 244t and directly into the laptop and experienced no noticeable difference.
However, this seems to all have changed today. Ive had this new Logitech G7 Laser in its box for a while, while I wait for my desktop to come together. Well, I decided to go ahead and try it today.
Laser vs. Optical (Both have a similarly sized 2.4ghz receiver)
Boy was I amazed, the G7 felt fast just like any other display i've used; it was as accurate and precise as I have always been used to on my old 19 lcd or even on my laptop screen. I am sold.
There are about a hundred variables though, as have been discussed in another thread before. I couldnt tell any difference (as behardware.com mentions) between 60hz and 75hz, v-sync is disabled, but has no effect on the desktop obviously. The fact that the monitor is running through a low quality graphics card and an analog plug that is going through a laptop probably doesnt help the situation of input lag, but the fact that since Ive been using the laser mouse I cant tell anyway, is good news.
Input lag still exists, sure, but I can no longer tell that it is there after I switched from an optical wireless mouse to a laser wireless mouse. That is really my 2 cents on that. Input lag relating to keyboard use is also unnoticeable and really hard to test anyway, so Ill leave it at that.
If anyone has any questions Ill try to clarify, but just thought I would throw this out there knowing that I was at first extremely disappointed in my 244t just for the input lag, but didnt want to risk the Dell 2407 and its banding issues. I hope to take more pictures and test some more once I actually hook this thing into a real desktop.
Thats all for now
