Dell UltraSharp 2005FPW 20" Widescreen LCD


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man, i think ya'll are just being too picky :D

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This isn't a toy though, it is an expensive piece of technology which you will be looking at more than any other piece of computer equipment.

If you bought a new house, would you be bothered if a wall was painted white but there was a area of pink paint on the wall somewhere?

Just curious, because I am seriously thinking about jumping on that one coupon deal a page back or so that runs out by the 18th...

I know it has probably been mentioned before in this thread, and I was also just at the dell site and could not find it as I am pretty drunk for the first time since new years and saw it nowhere in the tech specs, but what is the response time of the 2500FPW, and is it any good for gaming, mainly First Person Shooters.

TIA,

DL

welp, finally have both monitors up and running.

I ordered 2 monitors seperatley to be able to get the coupon prices. The first showed up right away, the second, I had to stay on Dell until they got the order right (it took about 10 days from order to recieve).

I can't be happier though, both made in mexico, rev A02.

Lotsa backlight on both that was adjusted down with various settings tweaks, zero dead pixels on both monitors.

Movies, games and apps all look great running on an sapphire x800.

Highly recommended.

DirtyLarry: I believe it's a 12ms response time.

No problems here running BF2 @ 1280x1024, everything on "medium" with 2xAA, looks great even in the middle of a battle. Can't comment on other games that I don't play.

DirtyLarry: I believe it's a 12ms response time.

No problems here running BF2 @ 1280x1024, everything on "medium" with 2xAA, looks great even in the middle of a battle. Can't comment on other games that I don't play.

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Thanks for the response. (Y) I am sold.

I am off to order one in a little while.

If for some reason I feel it is not great for games, I can just use it for my Mac.

My 17" Apple Cinema Display (1st generation, I paid way to much for it at the time) has slowly been starting to show its age, and this would be a great replacement. So either way I need this monitor. Thanks again for your reply. I will be posting back in a few days hopefully myself to report how it all went.

welp, finally have both monitors up and running.

I ordered 2 monitors seperatley to be able to get the coupon prices. The first showed up right away, the second, I had to stay on Dell until they got the order right (it took about 10 days from order to recieve).

I can't be happier though, both made in mexico, rev A02.

Lotsa backlight on both that was adjusted down with various settings tweaks, zero dead pixels on both monitors.

Movies, games and apps all look great running on an sapphire x800.

Highly recommended.

DirtyLarry: I believe it's a 12ms response time.

No problems here running BF2 @ 1280x1024, everything on "medium" with 2xAA, looks great even in the middle of a battle. Can't comment on other games that I don't play.

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Please can you tell me what settings u changed to adjust the backlight bleeding issues?

Was it done on the monitor or in your graphics card applet, can you please post your settings.

Thanks

I don't think you can really adjust the backlight easy down... even if you can, then your primary best color settings will be modifed... well, the only adjustment that i have try and really help to bog down the backlight is to turn down the brightness in the Nvidia graphic settings.. but then your screen will become really really dark... and what was the LCD main feature again? its brightness, so turning it down is like ruining the meaning of it :D

I don't think you can really adjust the backlight easy down... even if you can, then your primary best color settings will be modifed... well, the only adjustment that i have try and really help to bog down the backlight is to turn down the brightness in the Nvidia graphic settings.. but then your screen will become really really dark... and what was the LCD main feature again? its brightness, so turning it down is like ruining the meaning of it :D

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Your right, oh hum. I suppose I am fussing over nothing. I have no dead pixels just the very obvious backlight bleeding. I just want it to be right, as it did cost a lot of money.

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Your right, oh hum. I suppose I am fussing over nothing. I have no dead pixels just the very obvious backlight bleeding. I just want it to be right, as it did cost a lot of money.

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Edit: After once again speaking to Dell Technical support it has been confimed the A02's are not being shipped from the United Kingdom and aren't planning too. The person I spoke to in Technical support stated that he has esclated the problem as it is effecting people in the UK an US. When the issue is resolved I will be informed and my monitor will be replaced even if it takes over 21 days to sort the backlight issue leaking.

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Anyone knows why i cant connect it to my geforce Ti 4200 with the dvi cable. Its ok with the analog one and when i switch it to the dvi it goes to power safe mode and then off :(

No i dont have em both analog and dvi plugged in..

Andr3w: dont let me mislead you, I didnt "fix" anything, just made them usable. I turned the brightness down to zero on both monitors and did some color correction with info found in photoshop books.

There may be more settings you can adjust depending on what vid card you run.

I really didnt do anything I wouldnt have done even to crt's when you first get them running.

Anyone knows why i cant connect it to my geforce Ti 4200 with the dvi cable. Its ok with the analog one and when i switch it to the dvi it goes to power safe mode and then off :(

No i dont have em both analog and dvi plugged in..

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pretty obvious question, but do you have the input selected as DVI, i.e. "2"?

Yeap ofcourse i do. It just says me it goes in power safe mode and then... stand by...

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i have the same graphics card and it worked on mine. Turn off your computer and monitor and than plug in the dvi and than turn on your computer and monitor, it should work.

i have the same graphics card and it worked on mine. Turn off your computer  and monitor and than plug in the dvi and than turn on your computer and monitor, it should work.

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Yeap this worked... thanks a lot

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