LCD dilemma

[P§I]

K I jumped on the bandwagon on the BB deal for the Acer 22". Well the colors,images,games were fine but text has just horrible. No matter how much i tried tweaking it, i could not get the text not to be so blurry.
It game my wife and I both headaches after being on it .
So i returned it and went looking at some of the other LCD's.
Well people at BB was being ignorant so I went to CC. Well I really wanted to look at the Samsung 22" but it wasn't on a PC, and when they put it on a PC the PC couldn't handle the native resolution. lol go figure. So I couldn't get a good feel for it.

Also they showed me a HP model, it was a 19" WS i think. After some tweaking it was very nice. Text was sharp and clear.

Also i noticed something in the NVIDIA control panel, when i have my CRT and the ACER hooked upped, it wouldn't let me adjust the image sharping? Why is that? I am running a evga 8800TS 640mb card. So I should be able to shouldn't I?
The PC on display at CC was able to adjust the image sharping on that 19" LCD and it made a world of a difference on images and text.

So with all thats said, I am stuck and confused on what monitor to get. The monitors at BB and CC are all ran off one PC, and it seems like its a problem for them to unhook them and let me see them on a PC by itself.

 

[P§I]

No ideas?
Either thinking of the
samsung 226BW
2007wfp ( is it a good monitor for gaming? Should i ignore the "ms" ?
any other suggestions?

 

[deepseadiver]

From what ive read the 226bw is a pannel lottery. You can get an awesome display or a really bad one. Thats why i think ill go with the hp w2207 myself

 

[spincut]

while i suppose if you're going to go TN might as well take advantage of the size and get the 22" model, but does the 20" counterpart (in this case the HP w2007) look any better? i still am trying to see a side by side comparison to see if there's a difference.

 

[FlipperBizkut]

You may have been running into the same problem that others with an 8800 were running into. That is that the graphics card was set to run at 1680x1050, but it was really sending a 1600x1200 image to the monitor making the displayed images fuzzy. There was a fix for it too.

Just an update. I setup the second display and the backlight bleed is actually much less than the first display. In fact it is better than the Samsung 226BW C-panel that I had earlier this week.

There was a little funky thing with the setup of the second monitor though. The first is setup on a PC with an ATI 800XL video card and the setup went without a hitch. The second was setup on a system with a Nvidia 8800GTS via DVI-D and the display was fuzzy. I remember seeing a post about the issue somewhere and found it in the Newegg reviews for the monitor. The monitor thinks the input is 1600 x 1200 even though the driver is set to 1680x1050. So the image is blurry.

The following is from Dosaaf, posted on Newegg, modified for 1680x1050:

In order to make nVidia 8800 series to work via DVI-D cable follow the steps listed below:

1. NVIDIA Control Panel > Display > Manage custom timings.
2. Click both "Treat as HDTV" and "Allow modes not exposed by the display"
3. Click [Create...]
4. Under Custom display mode values: Horizontal desktop pixels: 1680 Vertical desktop lines: 1050 GDI Refresh rate: 60 Bits per pixel: 32 (don't have "Interlaced" checked)
5. Click [Advanced >>] (by the way this is where I didn't go when NVIDIA emailed me)
6. Under "Back-end parameters": Timing standard: DMT Desired refresh rate: 60 (the rest of the fields are grayed out)
7. Under "Front-end paramers" Scaling type: Display (none)
8. Click [Test]
9. Click [OK]

After I created a custom resolution for 1680x1050 it worked great!

 

[P§I]

You may have been running into the same problem that others with an 8800 were running into. That is that the graphics card was set to run at 1680x1050, but it was really sending a 1600x1200 image to the monitor making the displayed images fuzzy. There was a fix for it too.

Done that, made it alot better but text still sucked