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It's not so much a sacrifice as a trade-off. I'm fine with giving up marginally better blacks and response rate for perfect focus, perfect convergence, and increased sharpness.

CRTs, by their nature, can't have the perfect focus of an LCD. You can get close through calibration, but the fact remains that CRTs are very high-precision analog devices, and it doesn't take a lot to throw them off their optimal operating point. I've owned some expensive Trinitron CRTs in the...

Sorry to break it to you, but there is only one kind of light :-/ If its the same brightness and frequency, it's the same light. The reason CRTs are harsh on your eyes has to do with lousy focus, sharpness, convergence, and flicker*. In theory, SED won't suffer from these problem. *) Yes...

The dynamic range of the human eye in daylight conditions, to a single image, can be as high as 4 (10,000:1). The total dynamic range of the eye can be as high as 9 (1 billion:1). Of course, that can't be in the same scene, because the pupil has to adjust for different parts of that scale. Of...

The output from the built-in NTSC tuner is decent, though the scaler is not in the same league as a good dedicated HDTV. Also, the sharpness of the display doesn't flatter poorly compressed DIVXs (my Deep Space 9 rips look better on my MacBook's LCD, because I can't see the compression artifacts...

I recently got a 20WMGX based on the comments on this forum, and I thought I'd share some comments about the monitor. I'm not going to reiterate the reviews I've seen on this site, save to say that I generally agree with them. The NEC has very vivid colors, and a very clear presentation...

Some peopel see no difference because they're blind. On my 2405FPW, the VGA signal would cause noticible shadowing around text, and total kill what little color saturation the LCD had to begin with.

The 20WMGX2 is like 8 months old. It's highly doubtful NEC will release a new version in the time frame this guy is looking to buy a monitor. LG hasn't even released a new 20.1" AS-IPS panel yet (the one in the 20WMGX2 is the latest one they have).

Like I said, you've got to shop from the right place. Did your friend buy the 2005FPW frm Dell? Returning things is incredibly easy with Dell. They'll send out a new one immediately, and schedule a DHL pickup from your door. You return the old one in the box the new one came in, so you're never...

Dude, don't buy a different monitor just because you're afraid of shopping online. I mean, c'mon, "mail order", who even uses the mail anymore? Between a reuptable online store (Newegg, Amazon, etc) and UPS/FedEx, online shopping is way less of a hassle than brick & morter shopping.

Staring at the computer for a long time can lead to eye strain and headaches, but most doctors agree that it can't permanantly damage your vision. However, your eyes burning after computer usage probably isn't very comfortable. Neither is a migrane headache. Here's some tips for avoiding...

With a 165MHz signal, that better be one hell of a splicing job!

I'm in the market for a new 20-24" LCD. I'm a programmer, so the main use of the monitor is going to be staring at text for hours on end. However, I'm still interested in good color quality, because I do look at photos now and then. Moreover, I'm a Mac user, and OS X looks kinda shitty on...

You can get a 250GB Seagate 7200.8 for about $120. It's a great hard drive -- quiet, fast enough, and has an unbeatable warrenty. The 16MB of cache is pretty useless unless you're hung up over 5% here or there. Personally, after having two Maxtors go bad in the last few years, I don't trust...

The only complaints I see on dfi-street.com are from people using sketchy RAM. Low latency crap that likely can't handle the timings that they're advertising in the SPD. I never see someone post "My two sticks of Kingston won't work". Again, the solution is to not buy crappy RAM.

Did you just call me a "noob"? What are you, 13? The reason I'm saying to RMA your memory is that it's probably rather marginal. The Lanparty might be a tweekers motherboard, but its still a commercial product, and does follow the proper standards. That means it reads the SPD correctly and sets...

I don't doubt that your board won't boot at default settings. But that's not what you said. You said "DFI boards are picky about RAM, blah blah blah..." DFI boards are picky about RAM if you're tweeking them, but if the thing isn't booting stock, your RAM is BROKEN! "Load optimized defaults" not...

What ignorance? I own the damn board! If you memory doesn't work by default, either the memory or the board is defective (I'm guessing the memory). A given module should ALWAYS run at its SPD timings, if it doesn't, then you should RMA it. A given one might run faster than what its SPD says, but...

Um, I have a DFI nf4 board. I'm typing this on one right now! The board boots just fine with the default RAM timings, and using "set optimized defaults" sets the timings exactly to what is specified on the box for my RAM. I can't even imagine a board that wouldn't boot with default timings...

Just use the "set optimized defaults" and the motherboard will get the proper timings from the RAM itself.

They're two Venice 2.2GHz cores with 512KB of cache. They should be identical in performance to a 3500+.

And consoles have had kb/mouse support for how long now? A PS/2 keyboard/mouse hookup from LikSang runs less than $30.

The Athlon is really insensitive to instruction scheduling (unlike the P4). It's a practical decision for AMD --- there are way more P4s than Athlons, so code will be optimized for the P4. The K7 architecture needed to run non-K7 optimized code well. If ICC generates significantly slower code on...

When Intel designed the Netburst, they didn't count on hitting the frequency wall they did. The current processes aren't ramping up as quickly as they expected, and leakage currents (creating waste heat) are much higher than they expected. Intel bet on single-threaded performance, and they bet...

I see. Glad I'm not the only one to run into this.

So did mine, but theoretically, that shouldn't be possible. The voltage range on the 4400+ is 1.35 to 1.40 volts. Do you have a DFI Lanparty by any chance? Mine seems to chronically low-ball the voltage estimate, though it gets better as the voltage goes up.

Do her a favor and stay away from an amd-64 laptop. The Sim's or similar games aren't demanding enough to require more than a fast P-M with a decent video card. "Gaming laptops" are horrible machines. They're loud, heavy, suck battery power, and run hot. I've got an Inspiron 8200 (which is mild...

They don't do that because it's really hard. They are themselves on an upgrade cycle --- they have to keep buying the latest manufacturing technology to keep putting more transistors in CPUs. This manufacturing technology moves pretty fast (they have to replace their machines every couple of...

Use them as a high-voltage source and build a lifter! American Anti-Gravity

Unless you're cache-limited. Most hardware sites don't bother to test real applications (compilers, databases, etc), so you never see benchmarks that show the advantages of having a large cache.

Yes, it's not a change in basic function, but that surface area could be critical. The heat extracted from the surroundings during a phase change is proportional to the mass of the refrigerant involved in the reaction. If having a vapor chamber as opposed to just a heatpipe allows Asetek to...

My PSU is a Seasonic S12 380W, and I'm pretty sure I've hooked up all the cables correctly.

You might be interested in these reviews: http://www.behardware.com/articles/567-1/23-and-24-lcd-monitors-roundup.html http://graphics.tomshardware.com/display/20050706/professional_lcd-07.html

If I were you, I'd take a look at both and see which one you like. I have a 2405FPW and I've compared it to an Apple 23" cinema display (which uses the same panel as the L2335). I like the 2405FPW better, for the simple reason that its a little bigger, brighter, and has better contrast and black...

I've got one of these motherboards, and when I set the VCore to 1.475 volts in the BIOS, it reads only 1.42 volts in lm-sensors. Does anybody know which reading is accurate? Thanks.

For me, DVI has been tons better than VGA on any LCD I've used. My 2405FPW looks a bit fuzzy (not so much fuzzy, but if you look real close, thin black lines have faint duplicates next to them) and washed out through the VGA on my 6600GT, but looks sharp and vibrant through the DVI output.

Hmm. My 4400+ gets to 2.53 GHz at stock voltage (1.27v according to lmsensors), and 2.64 at 1.44v. At the latter speed it sits at 55C using a Zalman 7000CU. We'll see how it does when watercooled :)

Not completely true. The Opteron's integer units are a full 64-bits wide. All the internal integer data paths are 64-bits also. It's not clear whether EM64T chips are "as 64-bit" as the Opteron. On a reguler 32-bit Pentium 4, there are three integer units: 1 complex, 2 "fast". The "fast" integer...

It's the FPGA that implements the DDR and SATA interfaces.

I've had my 4400+ since last Thursday. Unfortunately, my watercooling stuff isn't here yet, and I don't own an AMD64 heatsink. Damn you VoyeurMods!