Recent content by Sunfox

If anything, Intel and motherboard makers are the victims of the memory suppliers failing to uphold their end of the bargain. Do you realize how many specialized and unique parts a motherboard maker has to acquire to produce a high end board? And yet those are all readily available for...

Well, OK... how about sturdy desk arms with >25 lbs capacity? The NEC's are 4 inches thick, which makes them "heavier" since most of these arms are weighted with 1.5-2.0 inch screens...

No, a wall mount wouldn't work here. Two issues: First, I'm in a basement - hey great, concrete walls right? No, alas - they're insulated with a couple inches of foam, and then there's just cheap thin wood paneling on top. So basically there's no way to get a solid mount - even if you use...

Well, I think I've made a big mistake purchasing two Ergotron LXs for use with my NEC LCD24WUXi monitors. Oh, they mounted fine. I can get my monitors exactly where I want them. But they JIGGLE. I have a solid, heavy desk. But just typing or mousing sets up something in these arms that...

I never said I expected 0 RMAs... just that I was tired of 95% RMAs in the past. Burn me once, shame on you... burn me six times, shame on me, right? Some brands have better reputations for producing quality, problem-free products than others. My experience with ASUS is that they *were* fast...

I think I mentioned in my first post, I've had bad luck with them, and I've been using them since the Pentium-90 days. My main issues have been after 1-3 years, they either got flakey or completely died. I have a shelf of old dead motherboards to attest to this. The last ASUS I used was a...

Earlier this year I bought a pair of Hitachi 2TB drives for my WHS system (adding to the 2 500gb Seagate drives it came with). So far so good - no issues. I'm duly impressed, especially for the price I got them for. For my main system, however, I'm going through a similar decision trying to...

Except I would like the advanced frills that are typically only available on the advanced boards, good performance (even at stock), and very high stability. I figure if a board is designed to be stable with a huge overclock, it should be utterly rock solid with no or a mild overclock. I tend to...

First, I should preface by saying I am NOT a big overclocker. I typically do a minor overclock and sure I like to game, but primarily this will be a work system (which includes lots of video editing). My priorirties are stability, performance and features. Until now I've sworn by Intel...

Well, as far as I can tell what it does is re-adjust the "bad" sections and block out the bright sections of the screen to match the brightness of the bad sections. But in order to do this and maintain the same brightness level, it has to increase the backlight level. Combined the two reduce...

Something's been bugging me about one of the 2490's I bought. Basically, it's white level and brightness is VERY inconsistant. It seemed much "colder" on the edges than the middle. I have two monitors, one with the SpectraView bundle, so I was able to check the white level characteristics of...

I've got them configured and calibrated now... the stock stands seems sturdy enough, but when I read about the "quick release lever" to remove the panel from the arm I started to wonder about how well they were attached. At any rate I *do* plan on getting proper monitor arms in the future (so I...

I've been thinking of running one landscape and one portrait... man, a 24" 16x10 screen really looks BIG when rotated that way!

Well, I just received a pair of LCD2490WUXi's today... a regular and a -SV (figured I didn't need two calibrators). December 08 build date. Just have them off to the side right now for analysis. I'm a bit disappointed to see a couple [dim] stuck subpixels on both units, but they're off to the...

Yeah, would be good to know what connection type you're using.