Recommend me a monitor

[rufeo]

cheers rufeo, you've been a great help! (not saying the rest of you havent though)

*sits patiently awaiting delivery*

no worries! just glad that i can help. who did you order it from in the end? yeah if they've missed the delievery date then definitely ask for a refund

[mrbios]

Ive FINALLY recieved my new monitor.... first impressions.... WOW

second impression: strange white/dust at the bottom of the screen, easily wiped off but ive no idea what it was (right along the inner edge) worried me a bit when it wouldnt turn on... in my excitement i had forgotten to turn the plug on ^_^

build quality seems good, image quality im yet to get much of a proper impression of as i have literally only had it on about 2-3 minutes

I sold my PC recently and im running this through a laptop.... my decisions have completely reversed now as im going to sell ANYTHING i can get a bit of money for and sort myself out with a whole new PC (got an Asus P5Q arriving tomorow, already got 4GB Geil ram and a Lianli case, got an E2180 as a temp CPU, then it'll be time to go all out on one of the new GPUs next month )

EDIT: does anyone have a link to those programs that you can use to test for dead pixels? (the ones that fill your screen completely with each colour as you flick though)

EDIT AGAIN: never mind, 30 seconds of google sorted me out there, pretty chuffed with the outcome... only one dead pixel right at the very bottom of the screen which stays what i think is white when on a black screen, impossible to notice though as its so damn small impossible to notice on anything other than games/films either seeing as the taskbars grey lol

EDIT AGAIN AGAIN: this is freaking awesome!! just setup the contrast/brightness/digital vibrance to nice setting and **** me it looks so much nicer (note: i have been using a laptop for the past 2 weeks and before that i used quite a cheapo 19" screen)

[colmo]

EDIT AGAIN AGAIN: this is freaking awesome!! just setup the contrast/brightness/digital vibrance to nice setting and **** me it looks so much nicer (note: i have been using a laptop for the past 2 weeks and before that i used quite a cheapo 19" screen)

If you want to get more accurate colours, you could invest in a monitor calibrator.

My tip is to buy a basic Huey and calibrate your monitor (I suggest using http://www.argyllcms.com/ as it is a MUCH more rigorous profiling application than the bundled software with the entry-level calibrators - I think the Spyder 2 calibrator also works with it). It is command line, but the documentation takes you step-by-step and you can customise just how in-depth you want to go.