The LCD Buyers Guide

[Soulburner]

It sounds like you have an 8800GTX already. If that's the case you have plenty of power for 1920x1200.

[vafan13]

I came accross something interesting about the GX2:

"But you can't go to 4:3 mode when using it in "PC" mode. Normally, we'd just go into the driver and set it to use the display adapter to scale. But the NEC refused to go into 4:3 mode even when we did this. It was a pretty odd quirk, but may only mean something if you really care about the aspect ratio of your PC content when running in 4:3 mode."

Does this mean that instead of being able to have black bars on the sides in older games that don't do widescreen, I am going to be forced to have it stretched out?

[vafan13]

Oddly enough, the GX2 is by far the highest-quality 20". No idea why they mucked up the scaling. I wish I could test the damn things before I buy one.

I will probably end up with the 2407WFP-HC. The BenQ FP241W looks to be quite amazing as well, however, I simply can not afford the increased price.

[vafan13]

Well, Dell pulled a fast one on me. I went to order the monitor today and the price, which had been at $569 is now at $669. Didn't see anything about it being a limited time offer, but oh well. Even the "sponsored link" on eBay for the monitor from Dell shows it at $569.

Guess I'll be looking to eBay now.

My doubt is which model:
Dell 2407WFP REV A04 or
Dell 2407WFP-HC Rev A00
The HC is the newer model, but is it better than the Rev A04?
What are the differences between these two models?
Help needed ...
Thanks

The HC is better. It is basically the non-HC Rev. A04, but with a wide cold-cathode fluorescent blacklight (allowing it to do more colors, better).

EDIT: Oi, I just found out that the 2407WFP (both HC and non) has a bug that causes bad ghosting. Dell is currently working to fix it and release rev A01 of the HC model, which means this is going to have to be a belated bday gift for me. Oh well.

On a side note, has anyone heard anything about the LG L246WP-BN? *Supposedly it has the same panel as the BenQ FP241W but without the black flicker problem. However, at only $500 I am not entirely convinced it has the same panel as the $730 BenQ.