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Ignoarints posted:The trick is the resolution of your physical screen I'm sure. What laptop? It's a Lenovo T440s Thinkpad, but I'm on Windows 7 not 8 which seems to have all the DPI Scaling options.
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Tab8715 posted:It's a Lenovo T440s Thinkpad, but I'm on Windows 7 not 8 which seems to have all the DPI Scaling options. 7 has dpi scaling. Right click desktop, screen resolution, make text and other items larger or smaller.
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I completely glossed over the phrase DPI scaling. tooo early
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DrDork posted:Why not just take a normal stereo speaker set and turn them on their sides and lay them under the monitor, then? Also, you know sound bars are just a left/right speaker in one frame, yes? If it's because you don't want off-center sound, you could buy two of them (they're like $20 shipped from Amazon) and then use a splitter cable so that each bar only gets the right or left channel. Thanks for the reply. I use the stand to set things on so I don't want to consume that space with a speaker. Great thought on the bar -- I'll keep that in mind. What I really need to do is find a friend with a 3d printer in dc . . . UPDATE: more like $15.99 w/ amazon prime. Ordered, thanks for the thought. wwb fucked around with this message at 21:32 on May 9, 2014 |
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Christoff posted:Last page he posted pics too Oh nice, how high do these ZR22w stands adjust to?
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fookolt posted:Oh nice, how high do these ZR22w stands adjust to? Don Lapre posted:
There is also a rare Extended height model. PN LV980AA At full height it is not high enough to do portrait without it tilting backwards some.
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Don Lapre posted:There is also a rare Extended height model. PN LV980AA Thanks for the pictures! If it's possible to measure it, how high is the top part of the monitor at the tallest configuration?
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HalloKitty posted:7 has dpi scaling. If it's a work system it's pretty much guaranteed to break at least one app
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fookolt posted:Thanks for the pictures! If it's possible to measure it, how high is the top part of the monitor at the tallest configuration? At the heighest setting the top of the monitor is roughly 23" off the desk. At the lowest setting the top of the monitor is at 19" off the desk.
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dissss posted:If it's a work system it's pretty much guaranteed to break at least one app Oh no doubt. Manufacturers have started to run into high DPI displays without the software actually being ready. Also, I saw someone scale up their display on a 15.6" 1366x768 laptop. Yeah. Apparently that wasn't big enough already. Of course, some software now didn't even want to launch, because they wanted 768 pixels vertical minimum.
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Dell U2412M - is that a decent enough monitor to get for someone whose eyesight has seen better days? Anyone? Bueller?
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WattsvilleBlues posted:Anyone? Bueller? I think so. Worse case scenario you pump windows dpi scaling to 150% and then text size should be more than comfortable at that size/resolution. japtor posted:I think I just saw this at a Costco for $219 marked down from $250, not sure if that's a nationwide thing or varies by location though. They have it online for the $250 price. I saw it at my Costco in Georgia for $220 as well. I wish Costco carried the 29" inch version. Coredump fucked around with this message at 05:46 on May 11, 2014 |
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I just picked up the 34UM95 from Fry's. Since it was the display model, they took off 5%. This is a fantastic display - its pretty much everything I've been looking for. Enough horizontal space to be extremely usable and enough vertical space to not feel cramped at all. Shadowhand00 fucked around with this message at 17:28 on May 12, 2014 |
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Just saw this. I have one and love it. 27" Monoprice 2560x1440 IPS Glass Panel Pro LED Monitor (WQHD) $369.99 + $40 Rakuten Cash + Free Shipping http://slickdeals.net/f/6924104-27-monoprice-2560x1440-ips-glass-panel-pro-led-monitor-wqhd-369-99-40-rakuten-cash-free-shipping
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There were some issues with cc fraud but I got pretty much the same exact deal through them 2 months ago and all is well. Not my preferred site of shopping but meh
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Ignoarints posted:Is rakuten worth buying from? I've seen some really obvious, blatant scams on there but a lot of otherwise good deals. I never really knew what was up with it. They are just buy.com with a new name.
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http://sellout.woot.com/offers/hp-2...-+sellout.woot1 HP ZR2740W 27" WQHD LED-Backlit IPS Monitor with DisplayPort & DVI-D $300 lovely reviews on amazon but hey Nostalgia4Dogges fucked around with this message at 20:16 on May 13, 2014 |
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Christoff posted:http://sellout.woot.com/offers/hp-2...-+sellout.woot1 At that size, is the native resolution a good thing or is 1920x1080 more preferable?
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The Ferret King posted:At that size, is the native resolution a good thing or is 1920x1080 more preferable? 1920x1080 is ridiculous for general usage on a 27" display (fine for video and gaming). That said the density of the 1440 27" panels is a bit higher than your usual 1920x1080 @ 23" so do consider that
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The Ferret King posted:At that size, is the native resolution a good thing or is 1920x1080 more preferable? 1440p is a lot better than 1080p at that size. However it takes a lot more GPU to make that function the same as 1080p for games. I understand the 1080p 27" inch argument, but it seriously just isn't that bad (to me). I had a 27" 1080p monitor and I wouldn't have wanted a 23 over it. It all depends on the price. Yes, the pixels are physically bigger. Ridiculous would be putting a 40" 1080p TV on your desk and sitting in front of that.
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I went from a 27" 1080p to a 27" 1440p and could never go back.
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Ignoarints posted:1440p is a lot better than 1080p at that size. However it takes a lot more GPU to make that function the same as 1080p for games. Yeah I had a 32" 1080p and out of the close to dozen people to use my setup over the years, they all liked it. No one ever complained about the pixels being too big. That said, that Benq BL3200PT 32" 2560 x 1440 monitor looks pretty intriguing. Its just that LG 34UM95 is so tempting too.
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Isn't that monitor I linked 2560x1440 or did I miss something
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I used 768p 32" for a brief period back in like 2006 and thought it was badass. Non gaming usage was atrocious though. Even that is playable for games once you consider that at the time console games weren't even being rendered at native 720p. So pc games looked crisp as hell comparatively 1080p at that res is great for gaming for the same reason considering it's pixel density is much better than larger tvs
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Coredump posted:Yeah I had a 32" 1080p and out of the close to dozen people to use my setup over the years, they all liked it. No one ever complained about the pixels being too big. I have a BenQ 24" that I like alright... I really was drooling over 30"+ monitors but balking at the price. The above would suit my desire/budget just about perfectly.
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That is an awesome price, but it is refurbished afterall. I don't know if I'd try my luck with that or get a Korean monitor tbh. A little side note about my qnix. I re used my DVI D cable from the last monitor thinking it would be fine (or better than whatever they shipped with the qnix) and had to adjust my colors a little since it seemed a tad yellow. I noticed the other day that it would actually vary a tiny bit. Just enough to be noticeable. I tried the cable that came with it and it was instantly better and consistent. I had to readjust the colors to get it back to normal. Pretty surprising to me Ignoarints fucked around with this message at 22:17 on May 13, 2014 |
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Ignoarints posted:That is an awesome price, but it is refurbished afterall. I don't know if I'd try my luck with that or get a Korean monitor tbh. The refurb ZR2740w's are pretty solid. We have a couple here in our office we bought when they were $360, and the only cosmetic defect is that the HP logo is slightly crooked. Other than that, they look brand new. The only downside to these monitors I've seen is that the bottom edge is slightly dark. This affects all ZR2740w's according to the support guy I talked to. Ignoarints posted:A little side note about my qnix. I re used my DVI D cable from the last monitor thinking it would be fine (or better than whatever they shipped with the qnix) and had to adjust my colors a little since it seemed a tad yellow. I noticed the other day that it would actually vary a tiny bit. Just enough to be noticeable. The signal is digital, so I'm not sure what's going on there. Is it possible one cable is causing Windows to load a color profile and not with the other one?
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Zorilla posted:The refurb ZR2740w's are pretty solid. We have a couple here in our office we bought when they were $360, and the only cosmetic defect is that the HP logo is slightly crooked. Other than that, they look brand new. I don't know, in my experience DVI cables work or they don't. If you've seen a VGA cable with a slightly bad connection this is sort of how this was acting on a much smaller scale. This was with my own color profile and one I downloaded for this monitor (which looked like total rear end, might look good now though). I don't know how or why it would cause windows to alternate between the two if that was happening. But I swapped them again and it was clearly happening. I couldn't tell if it was just in my head for a while until I saw it actively change ... hue, I guess. It just looked like the entire picture was slightly tinted yellow. It was hard to adjust out correctly, but when I swapped cables it was very blue due to me trying to adjust it. Now it looks perfect
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I picked up a U28D590D the other day (Samsung 60hz 4K) and a 780ti to power it, pretty loving pleased so far. Problem is, DPI scaling even in 8.1 sucks complete and total rear end. If I set DPI scaling to per-monitor and set it to recommended, the windows and start bar are about as big as I'd want them, but it still seems to change the scaling on my U2713HM to be way too big - the taskbar is massive. Also, huge numbers of apps have problems with DPI scaling. I assumed that gaming would be the issue with 4K: nope, games run loving beautifully. Applications just look like a huge piece of poo poo instead. Anybody use non-standard UI scaling and can recommend some custom apps or something to manage this? (incidentally, anybody know how to make the border of dual monitors scale, so that I don't have big deadzones where I can't move the mouse across screens?)
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What's the recommended 1440p 27" monitor with at least 1x DisplayPort and 1x DVI? I was reading that some of the Korean 27"ers can overclock a good bit and have low input lag, but are DVI only.
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funroll loops posted:What's the recommended 1440p 27" monitor with at least 1x DisplayPort and 1x DVI? I was reading that some of the Korean 27"ers can overclock a good bit and have low input lag, but are DVI only. If you want to overclock you need a dvi only models.
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Don Lapre posted:If you want to overclock you need a dvi only models. Oh ok. Do those models match any of the ones with DisplayPort? I want two monitors but only have one DVI output on my PC. Seems like they would probably use the same panels and cases for the most part.
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funroll loops posted:Oh ok. Do those models match any of the ones with DisplayPort? I want two monitors but only have one DVI output on my PC. Seems like they would probably use the same panels and cases for the most part. There are active displayport to dvi adapters that should work, assuming your GPU can output both at the same time. They are expensive though, expect ~$70+, and you'll have to research which ones work unfortunately since there is a ton of garbage out there. There are multi input models but they don't overclock. Might not matter so much though if you're running two, unless your video card can do over 60 hz on two 1440p monitors
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Ignoarints posted:There are active displayport to dvi adapters that should work, assuming your GPU can output both at the same time. They are expensive though, expect ~$70+, and you'll have to research which ones work unfortunately since there is a ton of garbage out there. I figured I would use the overclocked one for gaming and the other for regular dual monitor work. I guess if they are the same panel type and calibrated they will mostly look the same, even if the bezels don't match. I'll start looking down that route I suppose.
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funroll loops posted:I figured I would use the overclocked one for gaming and the other for regular dual monitor work. I guess if they are the same panel type and calibrated they will mostly look the same, even if the bezels don't match. I'll start looking down that route I suppose. As far as I'm aware they look exactly the same bezel wise. It might actually have a slightly better picture though. There is far less info on them, and they cost about $40 more. They are named "True10"
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funroll loops posted:I figured I would use the overclocked one for gaming and the other for regular dual monitor work. I guess if they are the same panel type and calibrated they will mostly look the same, even if the bezels don't match. I'll start looking down that route I suppose.
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funroll loops posted:Oh ok. Do those models match any of the ones with DisplayPort? I want two monitors but only have one DVI output on my PC. Seems like they would probably use the same panels and cases for the most part. http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=102&cp_id=10246&cs_id=1024608&p_id=6015&seq=1&format=2
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KillHour posted:http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=102&cp_id=10246&cs_id=1024608&p_id=6015&seq=1&format=2 Passive cables rely on DisplayPort's ability to fall back to a DVI signal when necessary, but DisplayPort can't do dual link, so this won't work. Ignoarints posted:There are active displayport to dvi adapters that should work, assuming your GPU can output both at the same time. They are expensive though, expect ~$70+, and you'll have to research which ones work unfortunately since there is a ton of garbage out there. I have my doubts that an active adapter will accept an overclocked signal either. Since ones that can do Dual Link usually cost well over $100, it's a better deal (and far more elegant) to just spend a little extra on a monitor with a DisplayPort input built in. The cheapest ones out there now are:
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