Crystalfontz - http://www.crystalfontz.com/products/635/index.html
or
Matrix Orbital - http://www.matrixorbital.com/index.p...lcd-mx2-series
I would presume the Matrix Orbital, but wanted to confirm.
Thanks!
Crystalfontz - http://www.crystalfontz.com/products/635/index.html
or
Matrix Orbital - http://www.matrixorbital.com/index.p...lcd-mx2-series
I would presume the Matrix Orbital, but wanted to confirm.
Thanks!
Yeah, that's my quandry. Matrix Orbitals have a massivly good rep, but CrystalFontz manage to get their 20x2 LCD's into a 3.5" drive bay and their 20x4 into a single 5.25" drive bay.Originally Posted by unreal
Nope. There are LOADS of GingerNinja's out there now, despite the fact that it has been my online nick for the past 6 years. Changed it last year to match my long-standing domain name so that I can reclaim my uniqueness.Originally Posted by unreal
FYI: if you take the MO 2 line display aout of the moounting and you can cut pastic tidy, you can mount them in the 3.5bays,
and the 4 liners removed of their drive bay casing will fit in a 5.25 bay
It is Inevitable.....
The take up room in the above bays tho.
a "little" room on the 2 liners but if you bare with me I'll show you that the 5.25 ones fit almost perfectly.
It is Inevitable.....
I stand corrected, I must have been thinking of the smaller 2 line displays in the 5.25 chassis.
just took some photos and the 4 line displays do stick out into other bays
It is Inevitable.....
erm if your not scared by programming your own software to display stats/winamp vis/what-ever which really is only an afternoon job to hack something together, get the crystalfontz one, save money.
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jalcds is a good program for lcds if you fancy making your own screen.. oh and it has animation (ooh) and a graphic equaliser off winamp...
www.jalcds.de
Oh and it's free.
Hmmm. I was initially tempted by the 631 as it is a 20x2 display (the same as the MX212) but it goes into a 3.5" drive bay and I have a spare one which I cannot see me filling up, however, getting a 5.25" bay LCD will mean that it will be at the top of my case and I
can probably read it easier.
Off the forums, I have been recommended to go for the MO MX212 as LCDC is apparently superb, but I am still sorely tempted to go for the CrystalFontz 635.
- With the 635 I get 20x4 in a single 5.25" bay (I only have 1 spare). With the MO I only get 20x2.
- I have been told that the 635 you don't get horizontal or vertical lines
between the characters (can anyone confirm this?)
- LCD Smartie (http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/) is perceived to be just as
good as LCDC, but is freeware and works on both. Plugins are slightly more spare though: http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/smartied.htm
Wish someone would make a FRAPS plug-in for LCD Smartie as it cannot be all that different to LCDC, surely?
Any more suggestions? Other than make a flipping decision?
the 635 is a much better peice of kit imo, the segments are right next to each other thou so that might mean it looking a bit cramped with text display.
I've yet to ever meat any electronic engineer who recomends matrix orbital. They sell to idoits, granted idoits who have money (which i do have respect for them been able to do). But its nothing remotely specail.
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MO is best IMO
My Rig: AMD Althon64 3400+ | nVidia GeForce 6800GT | Corsair 1GB XMS3200 XL Pro TwinX | DFI LanParty NF3 250Gb | SoundBlaster Audigy2 ZS | Lian Li PC-65 | Matrix Orbital MX422 | Tagan Easycon 530w PSU | 17" Hercules TFT | 160Gb HD | Thermalright XP-120 | Altec Lansing FX6021 2.1 Speakers | 2mb Wireless Broadband
Thanks to all of you who have responded to my original post. For those of you who give a sausgage, I am pleased to let you know that I have ordered the following kit:
1 x Crystalfontz 635 (Black 5.25" Bay Kit. White Negative LCD with Blue backlight)
1 x System Cooling Acc Board
1 x WREXTY19 Cable
2 x WRFANX01 fan Extension
3 x Dallas Temp Probe
Why have I gone for CrytstalFontz, I hear you ask? Reasons are as follows:
- With the 635 I get 20x4 in a single 5.25" drive bay. With the MO MX212 I only get 20x2.
- With the 635 you don't get horizontal or vertical lines between the characters. You do with MO displays at present.
- LCD Smartie is perceived to be just as good as LCDC. The only plug-in that I would like and that is not currently available on LCD Smartie is one for FRAPS, which I suppose I could try to write myself (yeah, right!)
All the very best
CoolerMaster ftw!!!
I got me one of these:
From http://www.componentsuk.co.uk/catalo...products_id=18
Which for the money can't be beat IMHODid need a parallel port but the that wasn't an issue for me.
As for software LCDSmartie is good but crashes on my dual core system..
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