Originally posted by: xtknight
Originally posted by: ericinho
Difficult indeed to choose the right screen, despite this very informative thread.
I would use the 24" screen mainly for digital design work and the occasional print design. But that doesn't justify forking out the amount of cash that comes with a monitor calibrated for print design work.
Unfortunately, even the NEC as mentioned in this thread, are too pricey, the ViewSonic unavailable here, so I am eyeing the Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP since we have the 2405 at work and we are pretty happy with it.
But i haven't found any decent reviews of it yet and the ghosting and banding story with the 2407 made me somewhat hesitant to blindly choose this one.
Unfortunately, looking under Photo editing/Web design, no other 24"screens are listed, so I would love to hear your experiences and suggestions.
In any case, my videocard (GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb) is dual DVI, so the screen needs to be as well. And if i could tilt, set higher/lower and turn the screen that would be great. For the rest I don't have much other demands, except ofcourse image quality, color reproduction and so on...
I'm not sure what you mean by the screen needing to be dual DVI. Dual-link DVI? I think most 23"+ panels are. But you only hook up one DVI dual-link cable to one dual-link DVI port on your card. Even 1920x1200@60 Hz however may benefit from dual-link depending on your card. Dual-link DVI is NOT the same as dual DVI and you never hook two DVI cables to one monitor (at least not for many practical purposes).
What about the HP LP2465 or NEC LCD2470WNX? They're not as good, but alright for design as well. Although the LCD2470WNX is more expensive than the DoubleSight IPS at least in the US.
The Dell 2408 has bad uniformity issues last I heard.
Oops, my bad.
I merely wanted to indicate that the videocard has DVI ports, no VGA.
Anyway... most brands mentioned here are not even sold in The Netherlands (like DoubleSight... is that a brand like Eizo?).
And NEC is bloody expensive in my neck of the woods... the NEC MultiSync® LCD2470WNX is about ?700,-. So my question is if it is worth it compaired to the Dell UltraSharp 2408WFP?