My NEW Dell UltraSharp 2407WFP Monitor

w0w, all i can say is w0w! this looks so amazing. it really does.

My new monitor

i've currently got my rez @ 1280x1024 and it's just beautiful. first thing i did when i installed this joker was watch some WS anime/movies to see wtf. lol, GREAT! i tried 1920x1200 and videos are just to grainy for my tastes so i lowered the rez. i am happy to say that my aging pc did play @ that rez perfectly. next i booted up css. lol, w0w. playing css in WS @ 1680x1024 or something like that rez with a 16:10 aspect. BEAUTIFUL! having this big of a monitor is just cool. i'm suprised my vid crd stayed in decent frames with that setting. actually, i don't believe i lost any frames coming from 1080x768. that's good news for me. u get lost into the games now or at least a whole lot more! after css i booted up guild wars. WS out the box! didn't think it was gonna be. maybe it's forced ws? either way, this new bad boy just brought much needed life back into my pc. got this monitor for $680 and was hoping that it would be revA02. for the A01's had lots of problems. well, guess a new revision came out. i got me a A03. lol, hope that's good. i'll have to look into it.

SPACE SAVER! i thought it was gonna take up so much more room than it did, but it didn't. compared to my old 19' CRT (which recently blew up in my face) this sweet bundle of a monitor is a god send. it cut down like 65% space. that's terrific! lol, well now imma wanna upgrade the rest of my pc. my crt was 6 years old and was showing his age so this was a must upgrade. my speakers are still good, but maybe i'll look into some new speakers now. we'll see. all the colors on this monitor seem to be where they need to be. only thing i really had to do is turn down the brightness. this joker is crazy bright!

well, i can say this now. after just experiencing this for only 2 hours now i would never go back to that ill fated CRT. CRT's are great pieces of work, but this just can't be beat.

im currently in the CAD/Technical Drawing and my teacher has that moniter, its so sick, he was playing C.S. 1.6 on it it was sick as hell....and the students moniters are those but in some smaller size, not 15' i think 19'

lucky cunt.

I'm so jealous:dry:

Still stuck with a 17inch here:no:

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Originally Posted by Global Jihad

im currently in the CAD/Technical Drawing and my teacher has that moniter, its so sick, he was playing C.S. 1.6 on it it was sick as hell....and the students moniters are those but in some smaller size, not 15' i think 19'

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19 foot monitor? :O :lol:

It's a wide monitor right?
Why are you using a 4:3 res? It must look awful. :huh:

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Originally Posted by rossco

It's a wide monitor right?
Why are you using a 4:3 res? It must look awful. :huh:

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yes it's a WS monitor. i'm using 4:3? if it's cuz of my rez idk, but it's playing in WS and it looks far from awful!

edit: lol, idk, i've never used WS be4. i just check this out here @ work and i guess i am using 4:3. when i get home i switch to 1280x720 then and check that out. how do u even know 4:3 and what not? thanks for bringing this up though as i would had never known.

They recommend 1920x1200 as optimal.

http://support.dell.com/support/edoc...en/optimal.htm

Try 1400*900.
I'm using that on my 19" WS...i'm sure anything smaller than that isn't giving the 24" WS justice :no:

i believe i'll be going with 1680x1050. 1920x1200 is just to small. lol. my model was made in mexico on october 2006. i have revision A03 and tested for dead pixels and banding. 0 dead pixels!!! very, very mild banding in desktop mode and more noticable banding in multimedia and game mode. meh, i just use desktop mode for everything anyway. i'm still very happy with this monitor. i did purchase the extra 2 year warranty for an extra $50 for a total of 5 years. so, if something goes wrong or a new revision model cums out i can get a new one! weee.

They recommend 1920x1200 as optimal.

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Originally Posted by Global Jihad

im currently in the CAD/Technical Drawing and my teacher has that moniter, its so sick, he was playing C.S. 1.6 on it it was sick as hell....and the students moniters are those but in some smaller size, not 15' i think 19'

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19 foot monitor? :O :lol:

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It's a big room.

I have the same monitor and of course 1920x1200 looks better.

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Originally Posted by sibyy

I have the same monitor and of course 1920x1200 looks better.

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i concur, but the font is damn small. and i like to sit back in my chair and read the newspaper.. if u know what i mean.

what revision, what month and where was it manufactured? banding issues? dead pixels? how do u like this monitor? also, i recently installed microsoft's clear type tuner font enhancement and i like it.

Maybe increase the font size instead? Native resolution will look so much sharper.

Have you tried CS:S at 1920x1200? What are your system specs like?

How much did you pay? Sorry for all the questions, but I'm really tempted by this or another 24" monitor at the moment. I'm just trying to hang on a bit longer and see the price go down.

edit: haven't looked in a while, just saw it for £520 on eBay (new). That's definitely the lowest I've seen yet...

double post - sorry, new editing thing confused me :ermm:

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Originally Posted by Skillian

Maybe increase the font size instead? Native resolution will look so much sharper.

Have you tried CS:S at 1920x1200? What are your system specs like?

How much did you pay?.

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lol, thx. lol, i'm stupid. ok, 1920x1200 rez and i upped the font size within firefox and it's great. i'll have to see what my videos look like now. if terrible it's back to 1680x1050. i couldn't get the font size to increase within ie7 at all. no matter what i did. i'm probably doing something wrong, idk. can someone confirm that ie7 does in fact increase font size. didn't work for me.

yes, i've tried css @ 1920x1200 WS and my system dropped to many frames. i got like 40fps on that so i dropped my rez to 1680x1050 and it plays at 75-100 fps so i have it locked @ 75fps. looks terrific btw! i paid $680 for this. and i have a amd64 3500 w/bfg 6800gt and 2gb of ram. i'll upgrade soon. was kinda waiting on dx10 cards and now the wait is over...

Thanks man, wish I could get one for those prices :cry:

Enjoy your monitor, I am super jealous.

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Originally Posted by Skillian

Thanks man, wish I could get one for those prices :cry:

Enjoy your monitor, I am super jealous.

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Why can't you?

Where from? I'm in UK where that monitor generally costs around £600 ($1,100) and I know of no way of getting one shipped here from the US without paying serious customs charges on it.

Hey mr. nails. Well mine is the "older" version of the monitor, the stand is a little bit different. It a May 2005 built and I've had it for over a year now without any problems. No banding, no dead pixels and no high pitch sound coming out (it was an issue with early version of the monitor, a power supply issue).

Well I love this monitor. Colours are perfect, it is extremely bright (I took the brightness down to 0 cause it felt like I was looking into the sun), and handles well everything from work stuff, to games and movies.

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Originally Posted by sibyy

it is extremely bright (I took the brightness down to 0 cause it felt like I was looking into the sun)...

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yeah, first thing i did was drop the brightness down to 40 from 50. now, it's currently set on 25. lol, BRIGHT! well, it was.