27 inch or 30 inch

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Hey guys, Right now I am using my trusty old 37 inch westinghouse, but I plan on moving that to my bedroom as a tv. Right now I have a jerker desk that I am using but I might plan on moving to the Galant series as I want something similar to my work setup. Right now at work I use 2 x 17 inch LCD's in which work great for me, but I want a nice large LCD that gives me great res and picture quality. Right now I am torn between the 30 inch Dell LCD and the 27 inch Dell LCD. Just wondering what option would you go with??
 
If you have good eyes, go with the 30". If not go with the lower resolution and easier on the eyes 27". I have good eyes and it took me a little while to get used to the tiny looking font on the 30".
 
Well right now i sit at work about 2 feet away from my current dual 17 inch monitor setup now. the res on the lcd's are 1280x1024.
 
dot pitch of your 17" is 0.264

dot pitch of a 30" is .250

text would be smaller on the 30".. The 27" would have HUGE text in comparison (.303 dot pitch).

The closest larger screen dot pitch you can get is from a 24" which has a .27 dot pitch, which makes the text look very similar to your 17"..

Besides that, I would probably coose the 30" if you dont mind small text and can afford it :-p

I was going to buy the Dell 27", but I bought a 25.5" Planar instead.
 
well with the new setup of the Galant L shaped design, I think the 27 might be the best fit.. just for some reason my eyes start bothering me after an hour or so in front of my machine with the 30 inch I am playing with right now. Plus i have a hd dvd/blu ray drive in my machine and it wont play them at its native res.
 
Well right now with the westinghouse, it actually powers 3 machines (my main box, test box, and mac mini) I am going to be selling the mac mini as I dont have use for it anymore and I plan on getting an L shaped desk so I can get a smaller 19 inch LCD for my test box. I will mainly game, chat, surft, occasionally watch a hd dvd or blu ray movie on it, and take it to lans.
 
well the 27" is a VA, which I like alot, some people hate. There is one thing I hate about 99% of the large screen VAs out there, input lag. There is a delay between when you move your mouse and when it actually moves on the screen. Now its only around 30-50ms on average, which isnt alot, but its noticeable to lots of people (but not all)....

The best gaming monitor I would say for under $1k is the Planar PX2611W or the Doublesight 26" (same monitor, except no height adjustment)... Not sure how well they do with movies and the sort though....

Personally I would go ahead and try the dell 27" and if you dont like it, return :).
 
I've got a Galant desk (which replaced my Jerker) and am using a 24" Dell 2407. As you can see from my pic, there's lots of room for a big monitor. I'm debating whether to get a 27", 30" or 32". If you're a gamer, then you can turn up the eye candy much higher by sticking with 1920x1200 resolution of a 27"; the 32" Sharp LC32GP3U has 1080p. The 30" LCDs have a higher 2560x1600 resolution so you'll need a much stronger video card to crank up the settings.

Hope this helps!

 
thanks for that pic, i am going to do one similar to that myself with my main setup in front of me with my laptop on my left w/docking station and 17 inch lcd and my test box on the right with a 19 inch lcd. On the right side wall i will put up a few shelves to hold my stuff.
 
Yah man, I have a similar setup to yours and a 27" will do ncely. I have a 24" but, I still though it was small. I would go 27" like a Samsung 275T or 32" 1080PTV. A 30" has higher res but, will be small the text.



Mr. Wolf said:
I've got a Galant desk (which replaced my Jerker) and am using a 24" Dell 2407. As you can see from my pic, there's lots of room for a big monitor. I'm debating whether to get a 27", 30" or 32". If you're a gamer, then you can turn up the eye candy much higher by sticking with 1920x1200 resolution of a 27"; the 32" Sharp LC32GP3U has 1080p. The 30" LCDs have a higher 2560x1600 resolution so you'll need a much stronger video card to crank up the settings.

Hope this helps!

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Ok so now things get tricky, i just picked up the last LG 246w in the DC area new in box for 250. Obviously its a no brainier to return the Dell I guess. now I was wondering should I keep the westinghouse 37 inch as my primary LCD and this as my lan party LCD. Or make this my primary LCD and move the westinghouse to my bedroom and turn it into my bedroom tv???
 
You need a 30". In fact, you need MY 30" that I am selling, the Gateway XHD3000! Shoot me a PM and we will talk about making a sale ;)

Seriously though, if you have the computer power to run games at 2560x1600, it's orgasmic. And like my girlfriend always says, the bigger the better......wait a minute.
 
I would like to buy it, but I had the dell 30 inch and text was waaaay to small for me.
 
Man I like to have a 30" also but, the text size also is a turnoff. A 28" with 1920 x 1200 res is perfect for reading text.
 
I'd be happy with at least a 27" LCD with 1920 x 1200. The characters will look bigger when playing games especially shooter games. Another decent 27" is the Samsung 275T. Since you had a Dell 30" go with the 27" one.
 
Was disappointed that the Dell and Samsung 27" don't go as dark as I like. Seems like they gave up some black level so they could hype their brightness spec...

(However, I do like my screens quite dark...)
 
Mr. Wolf said:
I've got a Galant desk (which replaced my Jerker) and am using a 24" Dell 2407. As you can see from my pic, there's lots of room for a big monitor. I'm debating whether to get a 27", 30" or 32". If you're a gamer, then you can turn up the eye candy much higher by sticking with 1920x1200 resolution of a 27"; the 32" Sharp LC32GP3U has 1080p. The 30" LCDs have a higher 2560x1600 resolution so you'll need a much stronger video card to crank up the settings.

Hope this helps!

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I have the EXACT same backround on my PS3 :). I think the res is 1280x800 so it looks wonderful on my 720P TV.
 
TheGooch69 said:
DPI setting guys! Makes the text bigger in windows and almost all other apps.
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Vista is suppose to be better at scaling, though I don't know personally...

From what I've seen, I proceed from the assumption that it's still a 96 DPI world out there, and that it's best to adjust via one's physical panel size....
 
When I raised the DPI in Vista, everything was fine to read on a 30" @ 2560x1600, can't even tell a difference.
 
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