Recent content by |Omicron|

Alright. After waffling about indecisively for a couple days watching my monitor take longer and longer to come up, I just came across a special offer for a Samsung S24A850DW. At just 288€ inc. tax (yes, I live in Europe), which was over €40 off, I decided to take the plunge and hope...

You can't really compare AMD and Nvidia's settings there. AMD's value of 200 is a completely made up number, and Nvidia's 100 is simply a percentage slider. You can't go above 100% saturation. That said, the default is 50%, and when I set my Nvidia driver to 100% saturation I pretty much cannot...

@ tk-don: Input Format: RGB Gamma: PC Mode Slection: Graphics Preset Modes: Custom (RGB) with 100/100/100

We have both U2311 and U2312 models at work, but unfortunately no TN displays to compare them with side-by-side. One of my biggest issues right now :p But I can say that I don't really notice any IPS glow. Which makes sense, because that only really shows when you view the display from an angle...

I've had the opportunity to go through the lagom.nl test images on my work monitor during my lunch break... Mind you, the environment wasn't ideal, it's rather very bright in the office at noon. But it seemed to me that while most tests are just fine, the gamma test is grossly off (the 48% bars...

What exactly would be "black crush"? The viewing angles of TN panels are not really an issue for me, as I sit still and don't move around; but people tell me that IPS would have so much better colors than TN...? Glossy panels per se are not an issue either where the monitor sits right now...

I currently have a Samsung Syncmaster 225BW that is approaching 6 years of age. Yes, 225BW, not the widespread 226BW, although the specs are similar: 22", matte TN panel, CCFL backlight, 1680x1050. It's definitely not great in any particular aspect, but it was the first one I ever bought on my...

There's one very, very big reason for that: Microsoft Windows. And no, it's not a tinfoil hat theory about big corporates trying to slow down innovation and ruin all our lives ;) It's a simple, if unfortunate consequence of Microsoft's excellent backwards compatibility. Something that Apple...

Hmmm. Interesting! Since I may or may not have to invest in a new monitor later this year (my 6 year old venerable Samsung is starting to show bad backlight flicker and uniformity issues when switching on, though they disappear during the first 30 seconds... so far) this is valuable info. For...

Today I stumbled on this trend of driving displays at more than their rated refresh rates, particularly linked to IPS displays of Korean manufacturers like Yamakasi etc. This kind of surprised me, because I've always lived under the assumption that LCDs can only be driven at specific fixed...

My sister wants a new monitor. I immediately recommended the HP ZR24w, which prompted questions such as "that thing is how large?!". It appears she isn't quite someone to appreciate the wonders of high-resolution S-IPS panels! In the end, she gave me the following criteria: - No more than...

@celox: Have you tried pivoting the three screens into portrait mode next to each other and doing a 3600x1920 Eyefinity setup that way? That should be an aspect ratio roughly equal to 16:8.5, meaning it would be really close to the standard aspect ratio that game engines expect. It might help...