Just purchased the Viewsonic VX2025WM

[JiveCoolie]

Got it for 350 from buy.com, anyone else use this display? I wanted a good display to go along with my x1900xt.

Id like to hear what you guys think.

http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktopdisplays/lcddisplays/xseries/vx2025wm/

 

[LittleNemoNES]

questions first. Buying later.

Personally I would have gone with the ViewSonic VP2030b

Widescreen would be nice but often involves hacking to get games to work in wide screen.

 

[xtknight]

Great choice, and it's $350 now? Wow...

 

[Madwand1]

I just got one too recently, replacing my CRT which went poof and was too expensive to repair. Thought I wouldn't spend the money for the NEC at this time, and get multi-use value for the money. I'm pretty pleased. The blacks aren't near what the CRT could do of course, but overall it's very nice; sharper for text and overall, and usable for my photo hobby.

Now I need to figure out how not to spend $1000-$2000 for a color calibration setup along the lines of the Eye One Photo/Proof...

 

[tommy2q]

gersson

does the VP2030b give better performance?

 

[LittleNemoNES]

I don't know, you tell me ;-)

 

[otispunkmeyer]

bit-tech liked it very much, specially for gaming and movies

they chose it over the NEC display, so i think you got a good display there, and at $350 (when its £340 here in the UK) thats a steal (to me)

 

[JiveCoolie]

Okay, this is my first LCD purchase and well Im a bit worried about the refresh rates on LCD's

I guess the native resolution is 1680 x 1050, but at that resolution the LCD can only get to 60hz.. hows the eye strain?

 

[CCityInstaller]

Originally posted by: JiveCoolie
Okay, this is my first LCD purchase and well Im a bit worried about the refresh rates on LCD's

I guess the native resolution is 1680 x 1050, but at that resolution the LCD can only get to 60hz.. hows the eye strain?

Refresh rate has no bearing on eye strain when it comes to a LCD..I run 1680x1050 @ 60 hz with no problems. On a CRT I can't stand any refresh rate under 100 hz.

 

[josh6079]

Yeah, LCD's really don't have the same definition in terms of refresh rates when it comes to the definition CRT's go by. These things are much more friendly on the eyes, especially when web browsing and reading lots of text.

Vsync would probably work better though on the CRT's as I believe they have higher refresh rates (even though the term means different things between monitors, games still treat it the same). If you have a higher refresh rate, you can have a higher maximum frames per second in a game without screen tearing.

Does anyone know of any good LCD monitors that you can force a refresh rate higher than 60 on a 1680 X 1050 resolution?

 

[RossMAN]

Now it's down to $279 AR

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=40&threadid=1852847

 

[xtknight]

Originally posted by: RossMAN
Now it's down to $279 AR

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=40&threadid=1852847

:Q :Q :Q Good find...next thing you know this thing will be $100... jeeeez..

 

[SelfishGene]

Mine came shipped with a dead DVI connection. Will see if i can get it returned to Zipzoomfly or Viewsonic.

 

[samusaraniv]

Originally posted by: JiveCoolie
Got it for 350 from buy.com, anyone else use this display? I wanted a good display to go along with my x1900xt.

Id like to hear what you guys think.

http://www.viewsonic.com/products/desktopdisplays/lcddisplays/xseries/vx2025wm/

I have one and love it. No qualms to speak of.

 

[aniruddha23]

Originally posted by: gersson
questions first. Buying later.

Personally I would have gone with the ViewSonic VP2030b

Widescreen would be nice but often involves hacking to get games to work in wide screen.

Most new games support widescreen natively so buying oen is a no brainer.

 

[JiveCoolie]

Got the display and its great, no dead pixels at all and the colors are amazing.

gotta love the timing, you say its 279 now? frickin lame ;p