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lobski

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As some of you may know, I may upgrade to a 30", the 3007WFP-HC, which has no scaler.

Now, I am on a BenQ FP241W, and I don't think it has a scaler (Does it?). I tried playing games under its native res, 1680 x 1050. The game looked fine to me, so MAYBE the FP241 has a scaler.

Now my question is, if I get my 3007WFP-HC, which has no scaler, and I play games under its native res, let's say 1920x1200, will it look like crap? Or will it be ok like my FP241?
 
lobski said:
As some of you may know, I may upgrade to a 30", the 3007WFP-HC, which has no scaler.

Now, I am on a BenQ FP241W, and I don't think it has a scaler (Does it?). I tried playing games under its native res, 1680 x 1050. The game looked fine to me, so MAYBE the FP241 has a scaler.

Now my question is, if I get my 3007WFP-HC, which has no scaler, and I play games under its native res, let's say 1920x1200, will it look like crap? Or will it be ok like my FP241?
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If your benQ has a VGA port then it has a scaler. This is almost always the case on a 24 inch LCD.

The native res of the 3007WFP-HC is 2560x1600. If you want to play games at other resolutions you would have to scale with the graphics card. You can try this with your BenQ. Just make sure you have it hooked up via DVI and go into the nVidia control panel to set scaling. Some games have their own settings for resolutionalso also. I have tried this on my 24 inch Dell and it looks blurry

Your other option is to run the 3007WFP-HC at half res. 1280x800. In this case you would get jaggies to some degree.

I do not own the 3007WFP-HC, but I have researched it carfully. Most of the info above can be found in the 3007WFP Thread. Unfortunately [H] does not have search enabled lately.

Dave
 
The BenQ has a scaler otherwise everything would be centred with black bars around it.

Set your video card to scaling "off", go into the OSD of the monitor and under Picture advanced change it to aspect or full. If the view is full screen, then that is the monitor's scaler doing the work...

The 3007 does not have a scaler, meaning your video card will have to do the scaling.

Regards,

10e



lobski said:
As some of you may know, I may upgrade to a 30", the 3007WFP-HC, which has no scaler.

Now, I am on a BenQ FP241W, and I don't think it has a scaler (Does it?). I tried playing games under its native res, 1680 x 1050. The game looked fine to me, so MAYBE the FP241 has a scaler.

Now my question is, if I get my 3007WFP-HC, which has no scaler, and I play games under its native res, let's say 1920x1200, will it look like crap? Or will it be ok like my FP241?
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