Does the video card matter?

Not really. I mean in theory, there are ways the video card can matter, but if you have it connected via a digital (DVI) cable then no the card shouldn't make much difference.

The two most likely reasons the image isn't that good:

1) That monitor, like most LCDs, uses a TN panel. Those don't have particularly good colour reproduction, and have a fairly high degree of colour shift when you are looking off angle. Of course with a big display, you are looking at the edges off angle, and thus you are going to see colour shift.

2) That's a fairly cheap monitor, from essentially a no-name brand. Probably means they bought a cheap panel. Even within the same kind of LCD panels, there is quality variance. Often cheaper monitors are so because they buy the panels that aren't as good.


The reality of LCDs, just like most things, is there is a wide range and you get what you pay for. When you get a cheap, large monitor you get a nice big display for not a lot of money, but the cost is that the image isn't so good.

To give you some idea, the site you linked lists that monitor at about $330. Now I personally have a 26" LCD, but a pretty high quality one. It was $1100.

Now that massive price difference shows the range of quality there is available. I mean if the monitors were the same quality, or even close to the same, there's no way there'd be a market for an $1100 monitor with $300 ones on the market. However there is, because you get a better monitor.

So if you want a good LCD, you need to spend more money. That's just how it goes with things. I'm not saying you have to get a top of the line one, but you need to look at something better than what you've got. There's a whole lot more to this in terms of panel types and such, but the basics are that the better image you want, the more you need to spend.
 
It really shouldn't matter unless either you're using analog or you haven't fixed the setting resulting from some really bone-headed autodetection. For example, my laptop for some reason thinks my 24" LCD is an HDTV when I use a DVI-HDMI cable, and defaults to 1080i. It looks awful in interlaced mode every time the screen changes. Plus my 24" doesn't have a scale & preserve aspect ratio option, so I get a stretched picture unless I leave it on 1:1.

The usual result of bad analog output is pixels getting smeared into each other horizontally. There used to be a bigger difference in analog quality. In the past resolutions which are now typical were quite rare, so manufacturers of cheap video cards could get away with blurry output at 1600x1200 as long as it looked ok at 1280x1024. On the other hand, digital is now pretty much standard particularly at the high end, so there isn't much need for really good analog output either.
 
Make sure you are using a DVI cable and the display is set to native res, which is the highest setting. Probubly 1920 by 1080.

Dave
 
I actually fixed it now. Its look way better just by messing with the settings.
My 24inch CRT tv is going in the basement now as im buying a TV tuner with a remote control tomorrow and using my monitor as my TV. :cool: Also buying some new 7.1 speakers and a big hard drive so i can record Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles on my computer while im at work. I was actually going to return this monitor today, but now i actually like it.

THanks
 
Also for some reason i think its pretty much an hanns.g just branded different. Why do i say this?>
It has X-Contrast and the drivers says hanns.g hg281.. same as the device manager. Thats my thoughts.. its a hanns.g hg281 with some of the goody stripped.
 
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