Xefier
08-07-2006, 05:43 PM
Hey all,
Starting to like XtremeSystems a lot so thought I would give back, hehe.
I have had the 24” Samsung 244t lcd for about a week and these are very unscientific and preliminary opinions of this beast.
Here she is:
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/corganek/DSC02612.JPG
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/corganek/DSC02614.JPG
Now, my first impression is wonderful! Coming from a Samsung 191T 19” lcd there is no going back :P My 244t was manufactured in July 2006 and had 0 Dead and 0 Stuck pixels, Yay!
I must advise though, that because of unforeseen defective hardware I have not used the monitor on my new Core 2 Duo / P5W DH / 7950GX2 setup yet, I'm awaiting new parts :\
But instead this thing is chugging along on my laptop sporting a 128mb ATI 9700 mobility chip.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/corganek/DSC02608.JPG
Yeah, nowhere NEAR how good a chip should be to support this thing. I haven’t done much else than browse webpages, watched movies, and loaded some 1080P content from Microsoft’s site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx
She looks beautiful when playing these IMAX quality videos, I also watched the Family Guy movie and Emperor’s New Grove (thanks to my GF..) and the brightness and color are very crisp and clean, much better than my 24” Samsung CRT TV and old 19” lcd.
But, on the point of INPUT LAG, this is where I discovered something today. I was at first sadly disappointed when all my research about the obvious input lag this monitor exhibits came true. Using a Logitech 2.4ghz wireless notebook mouse (just bought a week ago, it’s optical) there was a VERY noticeable input lag which really did bother me when working on the desktop, I couldn’t seem to click anything that accurately, it was very discouraging. It felt that it would’ve taken a couple weeks and NO fps games to get used to. This optical notebook mouse doesn't exhibit any noticeable lag when being used with my laptop screen. Oh, and I did try hooking the receiver in both the USB hub on the 244t and directly into the laptop and experienced no noticeable difference.
However, this seems to all have changed today. I’ve had this new Logitech G7 Laser in its box for a while, while I wait for my desktop to come together. Well, I decided to go ahead and try it today.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/corganek/DSC02611.JPG
Laser vs. Optical (Both have a similarly sized 2.4ghz receiver)
Boy was I amazed, the G7 felt fast just like any other display i've used; it was as accurate and precise as I have always been used to on my old 19” lcd or even on my laptop screen. I am sold.
There are about a hundred variables though, as i've read about in various forums. I couldn’t tell any difference (as behardware.com mentions) between 60hz and 75hz, v-sync is disabled, but has no effect on the desktop obviously. The fact that the monitor is running through a low quality graphics card and an analog plug that is going through a laptop probably doesn’t help the situation of input lag, but the fact that since I’ve been using the laser mouse I can’t tell anyway, is good news.
Input lag still exists, sure, but I can no longer tell that it is there after I switched from an optical wireless mouse to a laser wireless mouse. That is really my 2 cents on that. Input lag relating to keyboard use is also unnoticeable and really hard to test anyway, so I’ll leave it at that.
If anyone has any questions I’ll try to clarify, but just thought I would throw this out there knowing that I was at first extremely disappointed in my 244t just for the input lag, but didn’t want to risk the Dell 2407 and its banding issues. I hope to take more pictures and test some more once I actually hook this thing into a real desktop.
Thats all for now :cool:
Starting to like XtremeSystems a lot so thought I would give back, hehe.
I have had the 24” Samsung 244t lcd for about a week and these are very unscientific and preliminary opinions of this beast.
Here she is:
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/corganek/DSC02612.JPG
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/corganek/DSC02614.JPG
Now, my first impression is wonderful! Coming from a Samsung 191T 19” lcd there is no going back :P My 244t was manufactured in July 2006 and had 0 Dead and 0 Stuck pixels, Yay!
I must advise though, that because of unforeseen defective hardware I have not used the monitor on my new Core 2 Duo / P5W DH / 7950GX2 setup yet, I'm awaiting new parts :\
But instead this thing is chugging along on my laptop sporting a 128mb ATI 9700 mobility chip.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/corganek/DSC02608.JPG
Yeah, nowhere NEAR how good a chip should be to support this thing. I haven’t done much else than browse webpages, watched movies, and loaded some 1080P content from Microsoft’s site: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/musicandvideo/hdvideo/contentshowcase.aspx
She looks beautiful when playing these IMAX quality videos, I also watched the Family Guy movie and Emperor’s New Grove (thanks to my GF..) and the brightness and color are very crisp and clean, much better than my 24” Samsung CRT TV and old 19” lcd.
But, on the point of INPUT LAG, this is where I discovered something today. I was at first sadly disappointed when all my research about the obvious input lag this monitor exhibits came true. Using a Logitech 2.4ghz wireless notebook mouse (just bought a week ago, it’s optical) there was a VERY noticeable input lag which really did bother me when working on the desktop, I couldn’t seem to click anything that accurately, it was very discouraging. It felt that it would’ve taken a couple weeks and NO fps games to get used to. This optical notebook mouse doesn't exhibit any noticeable lag when being used with my laptop screen. Oh, and I did try hooking the receiver in both the USB hub on the 244t and directly into the laptop and experienced no noticeable difference.
However, this seems to all have changed today. I’ve had this new Logitech G7 Laser in its box for a while, while I wait for my desktop to come together. Well, I decided to go ahead and try it today.
http://filebox.vt.edu/users/corganek/DSC02611.JPG
Laser vs. Optical (Both have a similarly sized 2.4ghz receiver)
Boy was I amazed, the G7 felt fast just like any other display i've used; it was as accurate and precise as I have always been used to on my old 19” lcd or even on my laptop screen. I am sold.
There are about a hundred variables though, as i've read about in various forums. I couldn’t tell any difference (as behardware.com mentions) between 60hz and 75hz, v-sync is disabled, but has no effect on the desktop obviously. The fact that the monitor is running through a low quality graphics card and an analog plug that is going through a laptop probably doesn’t help the situation of input lag, but the fact that since I’ve been using the laser mouse I can’t tell anyway, is good news.
Input lag still exists, sure, but I can no longer tell that it is there after I switched from an optical wireless mouse to a laser wireless mouse. That is really my 2 cents on that. Input lag relating to keyboard use is also unnoticeable and really hard to test anyway, so I’ll leave it at that.
If anyone has any questions I’ll try to clarify, but just thought I would throw this out there knowing that I was at first extremely disappointed in my 244t just for the input lag, but didn’t want to risk the Dell 2407 and its banding issues. I hope to take more pictures and test some more once I actually hook this thing into a real desktop.
Thats all for now :cool: