Sell Samsung 23" for Hanns G 24.6"?

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The resolution is a little lower on the Hanns G but not enough for me to mind, it's bigger, it's faster, but I've never seen one so I don't know about the picture quality.

My Samsung makes a high pitched noise even at full brightness so as much as I like it I'm kind of ready to get rid of it and try something else. What do you guys think?
 
well to me no matter how good the screen was if it made a whining noise it would drive me batshit. im not familiar enough with the hanns g monitors so i couldnt comment on their quality vs the samsung. but like i said, being in front of my system for so many hours at a time i wouldnt stand for any whining noises.
 
After only 2 and a half years, my Samsung SyncMaster 215 TW, since the beginning of January, started flickering and taking longer and longer to stabalize. It used to take a few minutes but this morning, it took one hour and thirty minutes for the flickering to stop.

I got it based on this review:

http://www.sharkyextreme.com/guides/EGBG/article.php/10721_3666936__5


I've read about the high pitched ringing in a blog:

http://wcoastsands.blogspot.com/2009/11/samsung-syncmaster-215tw.html


The blog talks about "capacitor plague".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague


I started thinking back to the first CRT monitors that I had: Viewsonic, Acer, Sony Trinitron. I figured that they might be more reliable but it seems like every producer of LCD screens has this capacitor problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lcd_monitor

Samsung and LG, from reading Wiki. probably have the largest market shares so it's hard to figure out what brand would have a lower defect rate?

I'm worried that my monitor won't be able to stabilize the picture.

I'm having a hard time figuring out what monitor a hardcore gamer would buy. Added to the problem is that I game at 1600 x 1200, yet my graphics card is a ghetto NVIDIA FX 5500 ( Athlon X2 4400 = 2 x 2.2 GHz CPU ). Yeah I've been meaning to upgrade my computer ever since I made this account, which was ( LOL ) 1.7 years ago now.

It looks like I'll have to buy some capacitors, borrow my dad's soldering iron and fix it myself.
 
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I never heard of Hanns-G until this morning. They seem really popular on Newegg, due to cheap price but they don't seem like they are built to last.
 
actually if I could find one for cheap I wouldn't mind replacing the power supply unit that sounds like no biggie. Does yours whine too? I just bought the monitor a couple weeks ago, but I don't feel like fussing with RMA bs and all that.

And yes it definitely does drive me batshit! For right now though it's at a very low volume so it doesn't get on my nerves unless it's silent in here, but reglardless if I consciously perceive it or not, my hears are obviously picking it up bc I'll have that tone going on in my head for the rest of the day even away from the monitor.

It gets much louder the more text that is displayed on the screen. Isn't that weird?

hmmm I could maybe hold out on some deals for an LG, are your LG's silent Rogue?
 
No mine does not whine. I've never owned a piece of electronics that made a whining noise, so it's hard to imagine what that would sound like. Text proportional to whining, sounds like a hoot; post a Youtube video =P

Google searches just keep giving me e-tailers but I just found an informative sticky thread on AnandTech, with explanations of the changes in technology, and elaborate listings of monitors, based on their technology and uses:

The LCD Thread
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=39226


The Samsung 215 TW was my first LCD monitor purchase but I won't be buying Samsung again ( $600 for 2.5 years isn't enough value for me, compared to a $300 CRT tube lasting 6 years on average ).

I would have bought another CRT but the high multi-core CPU TDP + CRT heat generation was too much. I wonder what graphic designers are using?
 
After reading other forums, I got the idea to go on Craigslist and look for dirt cheap CRT monitors.

I found an interesting company in Toronto, Canada that specializes in laptop / LCD repairs:

http://www.laptopspecialist.ca/index.html


They look like they would know a hell of a lot more than I would! I emailed them for an estimate.
 
I saw the hannsG in bestbuy and it looked pretty good. It was only 194$ and the picture looked just as good as the samsungs and LG monitors there.
 
Freekshow22 said:
I saw the hannsG in bestbuy and it looked pretty good. It was only 194$ and the picture looked just as good as the samsungs and LG monitors there.
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The demo material in Best Buy typcially runs at 1440x900 to accomdate their lowest end displays, they are all fed from the same box. HannsG monitors are typically some of the lowest quality panels I have ever seen.
 
cygnusx-1 said:
The demo material in Best Buy typcially runs at 1440x900 to accomdate their lowest end displays, they are all fed from the same box. HannsG monitors are typically some of the lowest quality panels I have ever seen.
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OK thanks...but digitalversus reviewed it and they said it was good.
 
if your screen is brand new i would rma it. i know its a pain but i doubt itll take more than 2 weeks all around to get it back. samsung does a repair or replace (at their descretion) which means they repair your screen and return it to you, and you dont get some pos refurb that came from who knows where.(ie: lg)
 
Thanks guys that's good enough for me to say that I'll stay away from the Hanns G. And thanks all for your help.

Is it possible it could be powerlines outside causing interference? Because my speakers have this awful high pitched tone coming out of them too. I've tried everything, difference power outlets, brand new power strip, brand new 80+ PSU, even unplugging everything from the wall and leaving just one thing on (the speakers, or the monitor) it still makes noise.

I live literally just about right under a transformer box, the pole is outside this room some 25 feet away and the box is hanging nearly right over this place. I just moved here and my speakers never made a hitch of a sound at my last place.
 
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