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Well I decided to try the catalyst 5.6, with Catalyst Control Center ( before: catalyst 5.1 with control panel ). Installation - no problems. Significant boost to 3DMark05: 5515 to 5720 Thought I would stick with these drivers, BUT these drivers significantly prolong computer boot-up...

Anandtech was not too impressed with the Catalyst 5.6 drivers: "We just feel that if a performance gain isn't going to show under most conditions (not the least of which is heavy load) than it doesn't have a very large impact on user experience. " "It goes...

According to the "inquirer", this new driver, which is supposed to be released June 6, will not only offer the usual minor bug fixes..., but will give a major performance increase to PC games: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=23594 New Catalyst 5.6 to give big boost to PC games...

Great answers! Appreciate it.

Indoor cat. Removing the claws may be the answer; but I am hoping to get a cat from the SPCA - and I understand de-clawing can only be done up to a certain age. I wonder if anyone has experience with cats (who still have their claws) in the home, and LCD screens.

"will ur cat attack ur TV if u have one at home?" I don't know; that's why I am asking. But a cat is unlikely to damage a glass TV screen; but an LCD screen is more fragile.

I know this is a bit of an unusual thread. I have 2 LCD's - I am thinking of getting a cat. So people with cats (and LCDs): Are the LCD's in danger? Do cats tend to attack (scratch) LCDs particularly if they see images they find interesting?

If only it'd be an 8 bit display.. How do you know, or where does it say that the screen is not 8-bit?

If you have an ATI video card, the answer is no. You need a program like ultramon to be able to display different wallpapers on the two monitors. If you have an nvidia video card, I'm not sure what the answer is.

I notice no blurring, and Far Cry, and Battlefield Vietnam play great in wide screen.

Yes it's OK.

"just buy from dell they have the best deals and best return policy" I also agree. Why would you want to take a chance of getting a monitor with a few stuck pixels right in the middle? Dell will take it back.

"Do any of you that have the cursor lag happen to have their video card hooked up to 2 monitors?" I have 2 LCD's (Dell 2005FPW, Viewsonic VX800) hooked up to 1 x800xt video card. No cursor lag.

I have a 2005fpw - and before deciding to go with this, I was also considering the 2001fp. But wide screen I think is the future - and wide screen video just looks fantastic on the 2005.

2005fpw, ati x800xt, with dell optical mouse - no lag

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"The only reason i'm saying its a good idea to test now is cause you only have 21 days to get a new replacement ..." Well supposing I find 1 or 2 dead pixels using my electron microscope - what are my chances that the replacement will be better? I think nil. So what for? If I apply my...

"The directions say not to use both the DVI and the VGA connections from the same PC" What is meant is from the same PC to the same monitor (which would make no sense). But there is no problem to run DVI from one PC and VGA from another PC, on one monitor.

Burningrave, I bet you if I saw your monitor, I would describe it the same way as I have described mine.

"Have you tested your LCD with something like Dead Pixel Buddy and tried alternate solid backgrounds?" No, I didn't. But why should I? I don't see any defects with the naked eye - it just doesn't make sense to me to install some utility so that I could find a defect. But if you do use Dead...

Well, I received my 2005FPW monitor today. With all the "bad press" regarding this monitor, nervously, I set it up. And it's PERFECT! I don't see any dead pixels, and I don't see any of the abnormal /noticeable backlighting others have complained about. And it's just a perfect size...

"The Dell 2005FPW is an incredible LCD" "I've already tried out three new 2005FPW's in the last two weeks and i have a fourth one on the way" huh? do you mean incredibly bad?

"check the massive 2405fpw..." The 2405fpw must be truly massive. I went to a local computer store, where I looked at a 23" wide screen LCD. There is no way I could have that on my desk - I'd have to be turning my head right and left all the time to see the whole screen. I ordered the...

Just curious - what is the brightness on your monitor set at? I read elsehere that the 2005FP is shipped with the brightness set at 100%; and that if the brightness is dropped down to 0% (which is still VERY bright) the backbleeding is much less.

I have no personal experience with refurbed models - but I suspect they're virtually as good as new (dead pixels, backlighting, are a risk with both). But I agree with Fanatic - the prices are pretty unimpressive. Wait for a deal.

Appreciate your opinion - keo.

Whenever I play CS:S or any game on the second monitor skrying - do you mean the first monitor? We have the same question - my intuition is that a second dedicated video card (even if it's PCI) to second monitor would help avoid the lag.

"I can't think of a single game that allows you to do this, as if you move to the other screen and click, focus leaves the game, so the game minimizes to your tray until you bring it back up to focus." keo - Usefull to know this. So my follow-up question: Supposing you move to the second...

It's not so fragile that touching it would damage it.

orkan, Are you able to actually USE the second monitor (eg use internet explorer on that monitor to download a file) as you are running a game on the primary monitor?

J Macker: "seconded. Do not buy a pci vid card. There is VERY noticeable lag at 1600x1200 even when just surfing the internet on the pci card." empty: I ha"d a pci vid card running secondary monitors for a bit...and it wasn't all that great.".. I am thinking of purchasing a PCI card...

Despite the "fighting", I have actually found this discussion /exchange of opinions quite informative. Based particularly on Wolf31o2's post (and others as well), and this thread: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=880299 , I think there can be a significant advantage to...

Would a second video card, connected to the second monitor, avoid this problem?

great, thanks.

Question about the card reader: is it only a reader, or is it also a writer? (ie is it able to transfer/write data between different memory cards?

Thanks guys.

Thanks for your input guys.

I have a free PCI Express x1 slot; I don't think a PCI Express video card will fit in there, So do you think there is a benefit to driving a second LCD with a second video card, via a DVI connection (as opposed to using VGA on my current PCI express x16 card), even if the second card is a...

I planning on a dual monitor setup with 2 LCD's. I have the radeon x800 PCI-express video card in my computer (P4, EE, 3.4GHz). The video card only has 1 DVI and 1 VGA out. If I install a second video card (it would have to be an older regular PCI card, but with a DVI port, such as the...

Thanks - so it seems a second video card will have minimal if any advantage in gaming. A second reason for installing the second video card is that I would be able to connect to my 2nd LCD using DVI (as opposed to VGA analog). My current video card (radeon x800xt) only has 1 DVI and 1 VGA...