Wooo wooo! My bro got me an early x-mas gift; a Dell 2005FW 20.1" Widescreen LCD. This thing is amazing, the colours are more vibrant and playing F.E.A.R. on this is a whole new shabang-a-bang. No ghosting (12 ms response time) or fringing of light.

Here are some pics:





Full Frontal


Picture-In-Picture


Picture-By-Picture

 

nice, I've been thinking about upgrading to a wide screen monitor....Enjoy!

 

What was the previous monitor you were used to? I'm just curious because I'm pretty sure a 20" 16x9 monitor actually has a smaller vertical dimension than a 17" 4x3 monitor.

 

You are right; I came from a KDS X-Flat 19" (18" viewable) CRT. The LCD has a slightly smaller vertical screen size, but the picture quality (colour, brightness, sharpness) blows my CRT away.

When I play F.E.A.R., I never really noticed jaggies in the game that much, but with the LCD I do! Now I need a card that can handle 8x AA

I didn't buy the monitor for screen size, if so then I would have purchased the 24" (when it becomes cheap). I needed to get deskspace back and this was the logical choice.

 

nice gift!!

 

Dell LCD monitors are nice. I've been very impressed with the 17" Ultrasharp on my desk at work.

 

i want it

 

All good Mizouse, just graduate and get a job...easy right ?

 

I've got dual dell 20" lcd's at work. Makes me when I go home to my CRT's

 

That is wicked! I don't think I would need that at home, but it would be a nice-to-have

 

oh it's very nice to have. it's a great help when i'm working in Illustrator, photoshop, flash and a bunch of other programs.

 

What video card do you have? I'm worried that my video card won't handle the native resolution and give me high frame rates when gaming.

 

who are you askin???

 

The thread starter, or anyone who owns the Dell 2005.

 

I am running a Radeon 9800 Pro, but I am not playing games at the native res 1620 x 1200. The dell has an Aspect feature where it will stretch the screen to fit at the in-game resolution, or you can play a 4:3 box with bars on the side. I thought the stretch would look horrible, but it still looks better than my CRT.

Obviously playing at native is the way to go, but if you don't have the power, then the Aspect feature is great .

 

i suppose..

 

Cool! I've this and is great. I grabbed on the deal for $387 shipped from dell on Deals2buy in Aug/spt sometime.

 

Go dual monitor anyway - You spend most all your time with your primary monitor anyway.
my secondary is my old CRT.

 

Slightly OT FYI for anyone that's considering a dual monitor setup and may possibly get serious about photo editing. All versions of Windows are only capable of applying a single color profile regardless of the number of monitors. This means you will only get accurate color on one monitor. Longhorn... errr Vista.... is supposed to fix this.

 

if anyone is interested in buying one of these i know slickdeals.net just had a coupon from dell for them around 350...but they are on ebay for around 330-350 brand new also...just FYI