Just yesterday I bought myself a Samsung 226bw thinking the lottery fiasco was over and that they were quality panels now... boy was I wrong.
First, and major problem, is WHITE, WHITE dominates EVERYTHING, de_dust2 on cs looks like its frikken snowing - it gives me a headache, and this is on 25 brightness which is ridiculous. Everything is washed out except darker colours. Putting down the brightness fixes the problem partially but absolutely kills the rest of the colours displayed by the monitor.
The next problem is something I haven't encountered before, when moving windows on the desktop or when say, turning in fps games I keep on getting a 'blocky effect'. I.e. I start seeing squares forming as if the monitor is not catching up evenly or something, it is difficult to describe but kills the eyes. Vsync PARTIALLY fixes it in games but is still present in windows. When turning the textures also start flashing which didn't happen with my 19" AOC CRT.
Overall I'm extremely unimpressed by this monitor and Samsung in general. I have played on this monitor in an internet cafe before and it was leaps and bounds better in every aspect (and its what made me buy it) Colours were fantastic, it seemed to have better viewing angles and there was no blocky effect anywhere to be seen. I'm wondering if I should RMA this monitor or is this normal and Samsung has really gone down hill?
First, and major problem, is WHITE, WHITE dominates EVERYTHING, de_dust2 on cs looks like its frikken snowing - it gives me a headache, and this is on 25 brightness which is ridiculous. Everything is washed out except darker colours. Putting down the brightness fixes the problem partially but absolutely kills the rest of the colours displayed by the monitor.
The next problem is something I haven't encountered before, when moving windows on the desktop or when say, turning in fps games I keep on getting a 'blocky effect'. I.e. I start seeing squares forming as if the monitor is not catching up evenly or something, it is difficult to describe but kills the eyes. Vsync PARTIALLY fixes it in games but is still present in windows. When turning the textures also start flashing which didn't happen with my 19" AOC CRT.
Overall I'm extremely unimpressed by this monitor and Samsung in general. I have played on this monitor in an internet cafe before and it was leaps and bounds better in every aspect (and its what made me buy it) Colours were fantastic, it seemed to have better viewing angles and there was no blocky effect anywhere to be seen. I'm wondering if I should RMA this monitor or is this normal and Samsung has really gone down hill?