I have a very nice 24" square LCD that sold at release for about $600 about 4 years ago. Resolution is VERY high and affords the highest graphical settings for wow.
option 2 is a 20" widescreen from Dell that is new and costs around $350 or so. The resolution is lower (shadows are very 'dotty' instead of a solid mass of color) and I'd have to lower some settings in wow. As a pure windshield, the eyecandy is reduced, but its widescreen. I use Pitbull and with that and a million other addons (carbonite, DBM, classtimer, omen) makes the square 24" very 'busy' no matter what I try to do.
So if it were you, would you go with the larger prettier square LCD, or the smaller, less pretty widescreen LCD?
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oh and yes my PC supports dual monitors, but I haven't found a way to utilize this for wow.
Then if you can run dual screen and setup the 24" as secondary monitor dual screen where your windows apps go. Run wow in windowed maximise mode.
Shadows shouldn't be dotty as you are describing because a monitor is just that - a display, it doesn't do any graphics processing and how your wow looks on either should be the same given the same wow settings, provided you run both monitors at their respective native maximum resolution.
Square LCDs? They're like history, at least in the gamers world. As for high res they've always had that since early 2000, nothing much has changed except for the contrast I believe.
Check up the Syncmaster series from Samsung, you won't regret it. Pref those with 1920x1200 being 22/24''.
the 'square LCD' is about 4 years old, but is still better than anything in stock @ Best Buy. The Dell widescreen was a prize I won.
I just completed a setup using the 24" square as my primary and the 20" wide as my 'addon clutter' and Im mostly happy with the results.
chat bubbles are like, ENORMOUS. 5 word phrases are the whole width of my screen, so I've had to disable chat bubbles.
oh and in spite of the fact that both displays are operating off the same identical video card (mine has dual DVI output), fonts on the smaller Dell are impossibly fuzzy, but if I drag those same frames over to the 24" Sony, they're clear as a bell. So the monitor must have something to do with it.
Unless money is a problem, going with 2 identical square LCDs with a very thin border/frame would suit your layout even better. Or moving over to a bigger widescreen monitor.
Square LCDs? They're like history, at least in the gamers world. As for high res they've always had that since early 2000, nothing much has changed except for the contrast I believe.
Check up the Syncmaster series from Samsung, you won't regret it. Pref those with 1920x1200 being 22/24''.
I'm using a 5 year old 20" square Dell 2001FP, $1000 retail at the time of purchase (not that I paid full price, I actually ended up paying nothing at all for it but lost a very good car but that's a different story) and well worth it for one reason, it has an S-IPS panel. I've been looking at new LCDs lately and nothing can come close to what I want since its extremely hard to find a good 24" widescreen LCD with an IPS panel and the only ones I have found with IPS panels have been over $1000 and didn't even support HDCP.
As for "nothing much changing" that's not true, panel quality has gone down to produce cheaper monitors and to market to the uninformed gamers willing to overpay for cheapass 2ms TN panels that have the worst image quality of any TFT panel type.
I dunno ... I was really happy to trade in my old Sun 22" CRT for the monitor I currently have. LG 20" Widescreen. Got it new from NewEgg for $150 no shipping. Description reads as: LG W2052TQ Black 20" 2ms Widescreen LCD Monitor 300 cd/m2 10000:1 w/ HDCP Support
I like LG monitors, they seem to be easier on my eyes. Samsungs are pretty high on my list, too. I'm sure there are better monitors out there, though. I'd really encourage anyone in the market for a monitor to at least take a glance through NewEgg and see what kind of deals they might have going on at the time.
I've been keeping an eye on them recently, as the boyfriend is due to get his replaced soon. "He" thinks his old CRT is just fine ... "I" say he needs a new one for his birthday :)
As for "nothing much changing" that's not true, panel quality has gone down to produce cheaper monitors and to market to the uninformed gamers willing to overpay for cheapass 2ms TN panels that have the worst image quality of any TFT panel type.
QFT - I've yet to find any newer widescreen LCD that comes anywhere close to the brightness and vibrancy of colors on my old Sony LCD.
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option 2 is a 20" widescreen from Dell that is new and costs around $350 or so. The resolution is lower (shadows are very 'dotty' instead of a solid mass of color) and I'd have to lower some settings in wow. As a pure windshield, the eyecandy is reduced, but its widescreen. I use Pitbull and with that and a million other addons (carbonite, DBM, classtimer, omen) makes the square 24" very 'busy' no matter what I try to do.
So if it were you, would you go with the larger prettier square LCD, or the smaller, less pretty widescreen LCD?
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oh and yes my PC supports dual monitors, but I haven't found a way to utilize this for wow.
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Curse PremiumThen if you can run dual screen and setup the 24" as secondary monitor dual screen where your windows apps go. Run wow in windowed maximise mode.
Shadows shouldn't be dotty as you are describing because a monitor is just that - a display, it doesn't do any graphics processing and how your wow looks on either should be the same given the same wow settings, provided you run both monitors at their respective native maximum resolution.
Check up the Syncmaster series from Samsung, you won't regret it. Pref those with 1920x1200 being 22/24''.
I just completed a setup using the 24" square as my primary and the 20" wide as my 'addon clutter' and Im mostly happy with the results.
chat bubbles are like, ENORMOUS. 5 word phrases are the whole width of my screen, so I've had to disable chat bubbles.
oh and in spite of the fact that both displays are operating off the same identical video card (mine has dual DVI output), fonts on the smaller Dell are impossibly fuzzy, but if I drag those same frames over to the 24" Sony, they're clear as a bell. So the monitor must have something to do with it.
my 2c
<- has a 17" CRT.
"It looks beautiful, but you're the only person on earth who add a second screen and manage to make the game more cluttered that when you started."
so yeah - back to the drawing board. I went nuts with 'artistic' touches instead of going for minimal raid ui.
I'm using a 5 year old 20" square Dell 2001FP, $1000 retail at the time of purchase (not that I paid full price, I actually ended up paying nothing at all for it but lost a very good car but that's a different story) and well worth it for one reason, it has an S-IPS panel. I've been looking at new LCDs lately and nothing can come close to what I want since its extremely hard to find a good 24" widescreen LCD with an IPS panel and the only ones I have found with IPS panels have been over $1000 and didn't even support HDCP.
As for "nothing much changing" that's not true, panel quality has gone down to produce cheaper monitors and to market to the uninformed gamers willing to overpay for cheapass 2ms TN panels that have the worst image quality of any TFT panel type.
I like LG monitors, they seem to be easier on my eyes. Samsungs are pretty high on my list, too. I'm sure there are better monitors out there, though. I'd really encourage anyone in the market for a monitor to at least take a glance through NewEgg and see what kind of deals they might have going on at the time.
I've been keeping an eye on them recently, as the boyfriend is due to get his replaced soon. "He" thinks his old CRT is just fine ... "I" say he needs a new one for his birthday :)
QFT - I've yet to find any newer widescreen LCD that comes anywhere close to the brightness and vibrancy of colors on my old Sony LCD.