Monitor is dying
-
My 2.5 year-old LCD monitor is dying an early death, and the misbehaving strip of pixels is giving me a splitting headache. It's definitely time for a replacement. I searched the Lounge, but I also wanted to get some fresh recommendations. My current video card supports a max resolution of 1600x1200, so I'd like to get a monitor that matches those specs. However, I'm not totally opposed to upgrading my graphics card and getting a wide screen monitor. So, that being said, what do you recommend? :)
Jon Sagara On a traffic light yellow means yield, and green means go. On a banana, it's just the opposite, yellow means go ahead, green means stop, and red means, where'd you get that banana? -- Mitch Hedberg .NET Blog | Personal Blog | Articles
-
My 2.5 year-old LCD monitor is dying an early death, and the misbehaving strip of pixels is giving me a splitting headache. It's definitely time for a replacement. I searched the Lounge, but I also wanted to get some fresh recommendations. My current video card supports a max resolution of 1600x1200, so I'd like to get a monitor that matches those specs. However, I'm not totally opposed to upgrading my graphics card and getting a wide screen monitor. So, that being said, what do you recommend? :)
Jon Sagara On a traffic light yellow means yield, and green means go. On a banana, it's just the opposite, yellow means go ahead, green means stop, and red means, where'd you get that banana? -- Mitch Hedberg .NET Blog | Personal Blog | Articles
I just got the Acer 24" 1920 x 1200 (X234W). Excellent piece of kit: fortunately my laptop supported that resolution although, if anything, it's a litle too big! Cost about £230.
-
My 2.5 year-old LCD monitor is dying an early death, and the misbehaving strip of pixels is giving me a splitting headache. It's definitely time for a replacement. I searched the Lounge, but I also wanted to get some fresh recommendations. My current video card supports a max resolution of 1600x1200, so I'd like to get a monitor that matches those specs. However, I'm not totally opposed to upgrading my graphics card and getting a wide screen monitor. So, that being said, what do you recommend? :)
Jon Sagara On a traffic light yellow means yield, and green means go. On a banana, it's just the opposite, yellow means go ahead, green means stop, and red means, where'd you get that banana? -- Mitch Hedberg .NET Blog | Personal Blog | Articles
I've got two Iiyama's, good value and good quality and they replaced a monitor for me when my own power supply blew one of them. Regards Guy
You always pass failure on the way to success.
-
My 2.5 year-old LCD monitor is dying an early death, and the misbehaving strip of pixels is giving me a splitting headache. It's definitely time for a replacement. I searched the Lounge, but I also wanted to get some fresh recommendations. My current video card supports a max resolution of 1600x1200, so I'd like to get a monitor that matches those specs. However, I'm not totally opposed to upgrading my graphics card and getting a wide screen monitor. So, that being said, what do you recommend? :)
Jon Sagara On a traffic light yellow means yield, and green means go. On a banana, it's just the opposite, yellow means go ahead, green means stop, and red means, where'd you get that banana? -- Mitch Hedberg .NET Blog | Personal Blog | Articles
For development, I prefer two 4:3 over one 16:9 - more screen estate, more flexible setup, upgrading one is cheaper, and you have two places to maximize your windows on. However, you need a good graphcs card that can drive two DVI outputs - I found that on cards with one DVI one VGA output, the VGA output often deteriorates badly at least as soon as the DVI is used. Also, if you plan to watch videos, 16:9 would again be better. Maybe one wide screen one normal?
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighist -
I just got the Acer 24" 1920 x 1200 (X234W). Excellent piece of kit: fortunately my laptop supported that resolution although, if anything, it's a litle too big! Cost about £230.
-
For development, I prefer two 4:3 over one 16:9 - more screen estate, more flexible setup, upgrading one is cheaper, and you have two places to maximize your windows on. However, you need a good graphcs card that can drive two DVI outputs - I found that on cards with one DVI one VGA output, the VGA output often deteriorates badly at least as soon as the DVI is used. Also, if you plan to watch videos, 16:9 would again be better. Maybe one wide screen one normal?
We are a big screwed up dysfunctional psychotic happy family - some more screwed up, others more happy, but everybody's psychotic joint venture definition of CP
blog: TDD - the Aha! | Linkify!| FoldWithUs! | sighist -
peterchen wrote:
Maybe one wide screen one normal?
Thats what I got, but a 16:9 screen IMO is better for development.
xacc.ide - now with IronScheme support
IronScheme - 1.0 alpha 1 out now -
I just got the Acer 24" 1920 x 1200 (X234W). Excellent piece of kit: fortunately my laptop supported that resolution although, if anything, it's a litle too big! Cost about £230.