Well, it depends on what do you want and what do you need... 1700x and 1800x are high leakage silicon for "pro" overclockers... if you just want to do some mild OC with air or an AIO setup, better buy the 1700.
AMD makes very great products (more than people realize), but they need a little bit...
bwang, how hot are the mobo vrm's? as you say, it's possible that there is a thermal wall with "standard" cooling, but just to be sure...
Thank you for your time doing those tests :)
Everybody sees this, and i think maybe it's because there is only led's at this part of the screen (as i read somewhere, edge led doesn't always mean "all-4-edges" led). So this is, sadly, a trait of this monitor.
Not that i care too much, anyway. You know it's there but most of the time...
Through DVI or DP? I'm thinking about the possibility of getting less vertical refresh (true 50hz), but i don't know if it will damage in any way, shape or form the monitor (i don't think it will, and the specs talk about 50-76hz range, but i don't know if its only input range and the monitor...
What influence could make ATI's Catalyst color settings (where you can set the temperature, it defaults to 6500K) or the own monitor icm profile (installed with the driver)?
Just a thing:
The panel on the BL2400PT is half glossy, half matte (i don't know if it's exactly a 50-50), so i believe it's the same coating for the BL an the rest of it's "brothers".
And now a doubt.. why people use the sharpness setting? Mine was at 2 or 3 by default, and i don't know...
As already stated, I have an unusual setup, so i don't think my opinion is really useful, but..
Yes, there is ghosting with some transitions/colors. No, there aren't "visible artifacts" with AMA (wrong colors and something like that), at least that i can see. No, the ghosting doesn't matter...
Well, i always do that... take the brightness down (my eyes don't like too much monitor light on dark rooms), and then up the contrast until i like the image.
I don't notice the gamma shift like that on normal monitor use and with low ambient light, only with the lagom test screen, so for me...
Well, i thought it would be better to have visual proof instead of verbal opinions, so...
BL2400PT
Backlight
A picture
Gamma shift, i suppose
All of those are made with a crappy digital camera with a lot of barrel distortion, a "tripod" (sort of), on a dark room, and...
Not at all. But keep in mind that i keep the monitor with zero brightness and everything disabled (except AMA).
The only place i can "see" the leds are on the bottom, if there is something light gray on it (typical status bar), and then you can see (if pay really attention) the "shadows"...
Hello
My BL2400PT arrived today :), manufactured in august'10. I live in Catalonia, Spain.
First impressions:
-Connected through DVI, disabled all senseeye & stuff, brightness to 0, contrast to 40.
-Apparently no dead/bad pixels.
-Coming from a 17" old TN sammy, now blacks are true blacks :)...