Request for LCD Suggestion - Plz be kind enough to drop in ur opinion

[pillainp]

Great buy, emmarbee, I can guarantee you will not regret the decision to buy the SP2208WFP. I have one myself, and it's absolutely great.

 

[emmarbee]

Great buy, emmarbee, I can guarantee you will not regret the decision to buy the SP2208WFP. I have one myself, and it's absolutely great.

Oh I see, then I have to ask you about the settings at which the monitor looks at its best.

 

[desiibond]

^^^ That's subjective. Download Displaymate software. Go through the tests and adjust brightness and contrast that gives you best detail.

 

[pillainp]

Off the bat the monitor does have some pretty bad settings. It will be too bright, and everything will look like s**t.

My personal settings are as follows:

Brightness: 50
Contrast: 80
Color Management: On
Color Settings Mode: Video
Green: 90
Red: 90
Blue: 90
Sharpness: 50

As the poster before me said, most of those settings are subjective, and will vary greatly depending on your personal preferences and location of the monitor.

I do have a suggestion, though. This is a glossy panel, and will tend to reflect any bright light sources behind you (ie in front of the panel). So I would suggest you not have any bright lights behind you, or situate too close to an open window.

One way you can avoid this is to mount a moderately bright light above and behind the monitor, so that it negates any light sources behind you (in front of the monitor).
I do hope I am making sense.

For everything else, short of an actual Act Of God, I am sure you will have a great time with your monitor.

Again, congratulations on your purchase.

If you have any problems, contact Avinash BM. His email is avinash_bm@dell.com. Unfortunately, due to the untimely demise of my cell phone, I do not have access to his phone number, but I am somewhat sure you will find it somewhere on these forums in an earlier post of mind. Search for the word Avinash in post content, with poster pillainp.

Oh yes, be sure to enable cleartype (Desktop Settings> Appearance>Advanced). For Vista, you may also want to download the Cleartype Tuner from Microsoft.

 

[emmarbee]

Dell does it once again. The shipping has been delayed by 2-3 days. Harish (the sales/marketing executive of DELL) told me on friday that I would be receiving the monitor by this wednesday. But today after I called him to get the confirmation number, he told me that I ll be getting the monitor by friday/saturday. Let's see how long does this really take . . .

 

[pillainp]

I don't think that is their fault. It is most likely due to the heightened security measures following the horrible incidents of the past few days.

I believe they manufacture in Malaysia and ship from there.

When I ordered, Dell's tracking site gave me a delivery time of about 15 days, but it took hardly a week for me to get my monitor.

BTW, I don't know about the quality of Zebronics Platinum PSU's, but is Zeb 400W enough for a 9600GT? nVidia/eVGA list a minimum of 450W, so you might also want to upgrade your PSU.

 

[Micheal]

i'd say go for dell ne day. KUDOS for your choices brother !!!

 

[emmarbee]

I don't think that is their fault. It is most likely due to the heightened security measures following the horrible incidents of the past few days.

Ya, even that guy Harish told me the same reason, as it was on friday the bomb blast took place, he couldn't make it and on the next working day i.e., monday he was not feeling well. So he made my order on tuesday only.

And BTW I got my Order No. today.

I believe they manufacture in Malaysia and ship from there.

When I ordered, Dell's tracking site gave me a delivery time of about 15 days, but it took hardly a week for me to get my monitor.

Is it possible for me to track down, just like how you did? But I highly doubt mine is coming from malaysia (though a sales rep told me like that) .

BTW, I don't know about the quality of Zebronics Platinum PSU's, but is Zeb 400W enough for a 9600GT? nVidia/eVGA list a minimum of 450W, so you might also want to upgrade your PSU.

I was having the default SMPS of Zebronics Sivaji cabinet for my earlier video card ASUS 7600GS EN SILENT. But just a day before my new video card arrived, I feared that my SMPS couldn't handle the 9600GT and so I bought Zebronics Platinum series 400 W (Pure). My friend highly recmomended for me to go for cooler master, but I didn't want to spend more money on this as am thinking of upgrading my video card again (I'll buy a better SMPS at that time).

 

[pillainp]

Go Here - Dell India Order Status to track your order status. It may tell you no such order exists, or some such error, but just keep trying. It will work eventually.

I'm using a CM 600W ExtremePower for my 9600GT, and it's doing quite well.

However, if you do decide to upgrade your PSU, buy one with an 8-pin EPS connector, for future compatibility. I would strongly suggest an upgrade, though, for your GPU to work optimally.

 

[emmarbee]

So far I didn't have a problem with my PSU, even at its full utilization. I ll upgrade mine only after I get a new card or the same card for SLI.
And the delivery status says that: "Ship from Factory". Still three stages left- I highly doubt that I will get it by friday or even saturday.

i'd say go for dell ne day. KUDOS for your choices brother !!!

Thanks mate. I was left with no option other than choosing this monitor. But I'm very concerned about the transit from CRT to LCD. Everything is getting ready for the "kinda HTPC".

While buying any new video card, it says that "PLAYS HD VIDEOS" or "ELIMINATES THE CPU's STRESS on playing HD videos". But I doubt that my video card is so.

Even after upgrading from 7600GS to 9600GT, while I play HD clips, my CPU usage is more than 50% for 720p and 100% for 1080p. What should I do to make my video card handle the HD clips.

 

[desiibond]

^^ add more RAM and slightly overclock CPU

 

[emmarbee]

^^ add more RAM and slightly overclock CPU

I've 2 gigs of RAM, isn't that enoughto play 1080p HD clips? It was fine in XP, but not in vista. The video file stucks a lot, doesn't play continously.

And about CPU overclocking - is it possible with D 930? If so, can you please tell me with which tool I have to do that?(ofcourse I can google it up and do it my self, but i think instructions from you will be more reliable)

 

[desiibond]

if it's playing in xp and not in vista then,

1) do all the required updates to vista.
2) try using vlc player

 

[spikygv]

no , VLC player does not support dxva . If u want to use purevideoHD , then u have to use one of these.

purevideoHD works equally well in vista and XP now.
****** upgrade to latest nvidia drivers ******

1. power DVD - cpu usage dropped to 6-8 % while running die hard 4.0 1080p trailer . but it wont read matroska files ( .mkv ) . if u use haali's matroska splitter , then purevideoHD acceleration is gone , cpu usage 100% , choppy video.

2. intervideo winDVD - havent tried
3. nero showtime - havent tried.

4, media player classic home cinema 1.1.604 + haali's media splitter to run mkv -in MPC home cinema , goto view -> options -> output . select vmr9 and in the right select 3d surfaces and bicubic filtering . .this will use dxva and run matroska files. . cpu usage hovers around 12- 21 % for both 720p and 1080p . good framerates and u get subtitles . but this is far from the perfect solution. video HAS to encoded in some specific formats which conform with some standards. if not , then dxva wont work . some say this is due to DRM . so , many video's encoded by non-pro's cant use dxva. .

the above tests , i did in XP. powerDVD works in vista also. . for MPC home cinema , choose EVR custom instead of VMR9 in the options ( maybe , vmr9 works in vista , but i'm not sure. ..) but i'm sure evr works.

Also note that codecs such as ffdshow , coreAVC DO NOT support dxva. they use the CPU only. . so make sure that they dont come in the way.

i thought i should write this in a tutorial since many guys in this forum own 8 or 9 series cards. . but then again , its quite simple and most can figure it out easily themselves.

 

[emmarbee]

Can anybody tell me whether it is possible to make use of my video card to play HD videos instead of my CPU, therby reducing the CPU usage considerably.

if it's playing in xp and not in vista then,

1) do all the required updates to vista.
2) try using vlc player

1)Ya, Anyway I'll be doing that to install dreamscene.
2) No VLC plz, it's not good for H.264. I use MPC - its good. It even played 1080p hands down on my XP.

Desiji, Is it possible for me to overclock my D930? am having Intel 945GNT board, so I highly doubt that it is overclockable. If i can please let me know.

no , VLC player does not support dxva . If u want to use purevideoHD , then u have to use one of these.

purevideoHD works equally well in vista and XP now.
****** upgrade to latest nvidia drivers ******

1. power DVD - cpu usage dropped to 6-8 % while running die hard 4.0 1080p trailer . but it wont read matroska files ( .mkv ) . if u use haali's matroska splitter , then purevideoHD acceleration is gone , cpu usage 100% , choppy video.

2. intervideo winDVD - havent tried
3. nero showtime - havent tried.

4, media player classic home cinema 1.1.604 + haali's media splitter to run mkv -in MPC home cinema , goto view -> options -> output . select vmr9 and in the right select 3d surfaces and bicubic filtering . .this will use dxva and run matroska files. . cpu usage hovers around 12- 21 % for both 720p and 1080p . good framerates and u get subtitles . but this is far from the perfect solution. video HAS to encoded in some specific formats which conform with some standards. if not , then dxva wont work . some say this is due to DRM . so , many video's encoded by non-pro's cant use dxva. .

the above tests , i did in XP. powerDVD works in vista also. . for MPC home cinema , choose EVR custom instead of VMR9 in the options ( maybe , vmr9 works in vista , but i'm not sure. ..) but i'm sure evr works.

Also note that codecs such as ffdshow , coreAVC DO NOT support dxva. they use the CPU only. . so make sure that they dont come in the way.

i thought i should write this in a tutorial since many guys in this forum own 8 or 9 series cards. . but then again , its quite simple and most can figure it out easily themselves.

Thanks for your effort to tell this 'tutorial' like explanation. But I'm not able to figure out what's wrong in my PC. And of course am using the CoreAvc and ffdshow to play H.264 videos. Wasn't aware of the 'cpu usage' fact ! ! !

So are you suggesting me to use some other video codecs? And that would be PureVideo? Hmmm, will give it a shot. But am not sure about the CPU usage. I think I gotta overclock it.

 

[mathi_vadhanan]

@emmarbee,
Please let us know, how much you paid for SP2208WFP?

This is the quotation that I got from DELL,

Dell E198WFP 19" Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 11,400/-
Dell UltraSharpTM 1908FP 19" Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 15,700/-
Dell UltraSharpTM 1908WFP Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 13,300/-
Dell 2007WFP 20" UltraSharpTM Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 19,200/-
Dell 2007FP 20" UltraSharpTM Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 19,200/-
Dell 2009 WFP 20" UltraSharpTM Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 19,200/-
Dell SP2008WFP 20" Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 15,400/-
Dell SP2208WFP Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 17,400/-
Dell E228WFP 22" Entry Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 15,000/-

Prices include tax+Shipping+3yrs warranty.

Me too thinking of getting an LCD(1680*1050), but want to keep it under 12K.

 

[desiibond]

^^ Dude. you won't get a quality 1680x1050 resolution LCD inside 12k. you have to spend some 15k.

get Dell SE228WFP if you are okay with glossy panel else try Samsung or HP.

 

[emmarbee]

@emmarbee,
Please let us know, how much you paid for SP2208WFP?

This is the quotation that I got from DELL,

Dell E198WFP 19" Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 11,400/-
Dell UltraSharpTM 1908FP 19" Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 15,700/-
Dell UltraSharpTM 1908WFP Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 13,300/-
Dell 2007WFP 20" UltraSharpTM Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 19,200/-
Dell 2007FP 20" UltraSharpTM Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 19,200/-
Dell 2009 WFP 20" UltraSharpTM Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 19,200/-
Dell SP2008WFP 20" Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 15,400/-
Dell SP2208WFP Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 17,400/-
Dell E228WFP 22" Entry Widescreen Flat Panel LCD Monitor: 15,000/-

Prices include tax+Shipping+3yrs warranty.

Me too thinking of getting an LCD(1680*1050), but want to keep it under 12K.

I bought it for 17.2k. And ya, Jus now I've received my monitor.

 

[acewin]

hey emmar, how much extra did it cost from the site quoted price to you.
mathi you got 2 options get Dell e198 model under 12K or if you wanna go for 22 inch then think of Dell models

Other than this try to check HP L1908wm site quoted price is around 12088, if you get the availability nearby.
I had tryied to get in touch of HP customer care through site, but did not receive any response.

@emmar you bought 2208 model in 17.2K ??
how did they do the breakup, I mean with shipping and extra taxes.
I also wanna place an order. For either Dell 2208 or from HP.

I will call up HP tomorrow, lets see what happens, HP customer care do not give good response anytime.

 

[desiibond]

I bought it for 17.2k. And ya, Jus now I've received my monitor.

Congrats man. SO, did you like it??