Jump to content


Anyone have any experience with the off brand LCD

Started by slowday444, Jan 29 2006 02:19 PM

14 replies to this topic

#1 OFFLINE   slowday444

    Power Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 807 posts

Posted 29 January 2006 - 02:19 PM

monitors they sell at Newegg and TigerDirect?

#2 OFFLINE   lokoike

    Hufu FTW!!!

  • Members
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 1,223 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Illinois, USA
  • Interests:Hardware / software troubleshooting, open-source / freeware, Popular Mechanics, my g/f, and hufu.

Posted 30 January 2006 - 01:12 AM

View Postslowday444, on Jan 29 2006, 08:19 AM, said:

monitors they sell at Newegg and TigerDirect?
NewEgg is great, BUT DO NOT BUY FROM TIGERDIRECT!!!!! My highschool bought all of our computers from them, and every last one of them ran into hardware failures within months! Also, they got the orders wrong; each of the models were supposed to be identical, with a video card (as opposed to integrated video). Instead, we ended up with one computer that had a video card, one with a sound card, and one with a dial-up modem. It was like they wanted to fill up the PCI slot, but they ran out of video cards! Also, when I opened them up to work on them, inside was the wiring job from Hell!

TD is total crap, and I will never buy from them until the day I die.
Save a tree, eat a beaver.
Save a tree, wipe with an owl.

Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked!
ding, ding!

Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive.

If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!!

#3 OFFLINE   kobrakommander56

    Not Dead

  • Members
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 548 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:VA

Posted 01 February 2006 - 04:33 AM

yeah I went from TD to NewEgg, plus, I'm not such a big fan of LCD's
IPB Image

Insert random C4 joke here.

#4 OFFLINE   lokoike

    Hufu FTW!!!

  • Members
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 1,223 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Illinois, USA
  • Interests:Hardware / software troubleshooting, open-source / freeware, Popular Mechanics, my g/f, and hufu.

Posted 01 February 2006 - 07:04 AM

View Postkobrakommander56, on Jan 31 2006, 10:33 PM, said:

yeah I went from TD to NewEgg, plus, I'm not such a big fan of LCD's
Oh, I love LCDs! I like them because they last longer (although pixels do periodically burn out), they don't get image burn-in like CRTs and plasma, they don't consume as much power as CRTs, and of course, they are smaller and more convenient to take to LAN parties!

Although, if you are a serious hardcore gamer, CRTs do have one advantage over LCDs: refresh rate. Some CRTs can go all the way up to 120 Hz, while LCDs are stuck around 72 Hz (there may be faster ones, but I know they can't go as fast as a CRT). But, since most videocards can't spit out a game at more than 60 or so FPS anyway, that isn't a big deal for the average or even above average user.
Save a tree, eat a beaver.
Save a tree, wipe with an owl.

Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked!
ding, ding!

Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive.

If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!!

#5 ONLINE   Andavari

    Captain Spectacular

  • Moderators
  • 13,327 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Shadow Moses

Posted 01 February 2006 - 07:22 AM

View Postlokoike, on Jan 29 2006, 07:12 PM, said:

BUT DO NOT BUY FROM TIGERDIRECT!!!!!
I Agree, so much that the quote above should be in bold text with hallucinogenic colors.
Complexity of incoherent design.

#6 OFFLINE   lokoike

    Hufu FTW!!!

  • Members
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 1,223 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Illinois, USA
  • Interests:Hardware / software troubleshooting, open-source / freeware, Popular Mechanics, my g/f, and hufu.

Posted 01 February 2006 - 07:30 AM

View PostAndavari, on Feb 1 2006, 01:22 AM, said:

I Agree, so much that the quote above should be in bold text with hallucinogenic colors.
BUT DO NOT BUY FROM TIGERDIRECT!!!!!

How's that? :D
Save a tree, eat a beaver.
Save a tree, wipe with an owl.

Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked!
ding, ding!

Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive.

If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!!

#7 OFFLINE   Mike Rochip

    Power Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 844 posts

Posted 02 February 2006 - 05:10 AM

What are you guys talking about?!? All the posts are in hallucinogenic colors...

#8 OFFLINE   lokoike

    Hufu FTW!!!

  • Members
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 1,223 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Illinois, USA
  • Interests:Hardware / software troubleshooting, open-source / freeware, Popular Mechanics, my g/f, and hufu.

Posted 02 February 2006 - 07:06 AM

View PostMike Rochip, on Feb 1 2006, 11:10 PM, said:

What are you guys talking about?!? All the posts are in hallucinogenic colors...
Methinks Rochip needs to lay off the roaches!
Save a tree, eat a beaver.
Save a tree, wipe with an owl.

Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked!
ding, ding!

Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive.

If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!!

#9 OFFLINE   kobrakommander56

    Not Dead

  • Members
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 548 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:VA

Posted 03 February 2006 - 02:41 AM

roaches....... you mean toads? The refresh rate on my 17 inch flat screen sony trinitron (which I got for $1 at an airport auction) has a refresh rate of 100 hz its beautiful, but has a slight burn in, but i dont really mind it at all.
IPB Image

Insert random C4 joke here.

#10 OFFLINE   lokoike

    Hufu FTW!!!

  • Members
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 1,223 posts
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Illinois, USA
  • Interests:Hardware / software troubleshooting, open-source / freeware, Popular Mechanics, my g/f, and hufu.

Posted 03 February 2006 - 09:15 AM

View Postkobrakommander56, on Feb 2 2006, 08:41 PM, said:

roaches....... you mean toads? The refresh rate on my 17 inch flat screen sony trinitron (which I got for $1 at an airport auction) has a refresh rate of 100 hz its beautiful, but has a slight burn in, but i dont really mind it at all.
Well, yeah, toads would be somewhat more effective, but I thought a roach was cool cause it sounds like Rochip. Or maybe he's been eating that fruit from Rundown; you know it makes people's heads look all funky. I always thought it'd be cool to make a smoothie with that stuff...

But yeah, you can't beat a 17" flat screen CRT for a buck!
Save a tree, eat a beaver.
Save a tree, wipe with an owl.

Every time a bell rings, a thread gets hijacked!
ding, ding!

Give Andavari lots of money and maybe even consider getting K a DVD-RW drive.

If it's not Scottish, IT'S CRAP!!!

#11 OFFLINE   Mike Rochip

    Power Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 844 posts

Posted 05 February 2006 - 08:23 AM

I tried the toad thing once. I was licking the toad and due to an unfortunate mishap the toad thought I was French kissing it and it turned into Prince and I said "Whoa, I read in a fairy tale one time that if you kissed a toad it might turn into a Prince but I never believed it!" and then the Prince toad said "WTF? I'll thank you not to call me Prince because I'm the toad formerly known as Prince" and then right after that things started to get a little wierd.

#12 OFFLINE   res45

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 271 posts
  • Location:Oakboro, NC

Posted 05 February 2006 - 03:12 PM

For all you LCD fans here is a free tool to adjust your clear typesettings.

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleart...uner/Step1.aspx
Home built PC/AMD Athlon XP 2800/2 GB RAM/2 40GB HD's/DVD Ram burner /CD-RW burner/Windows XP SP3/ Firefox/Thunderbird/OpenOffice

#13 OFFLINE   hazelnut

    try to stay calm

  • Moderators
  • 9,458 posts
  • Gender:Female
  • Location:Huddersfield uk

Posted 05 February 2006 - 03:18 PM

This site tried to download an activex on me. Did it to you?
CCLEANER, RECUVA, DEFRAGGLER AND SPECCY DOCUMENTATION CAN BE FOUND HERE

http://www.piriform.com/docs

#14 OFFLINE   res45

    Advanced Member

  • Members
  • PipPipPip
  • 271 posts
  • Location:Oakboro, NC

Posted 05 February 2006 - 03:43 PM

View Posthazelnut, on Feb 5 2006, 10:18 AM, said:

This site tried to download an activex on me. Did it to you?

Nope click on the first RED line in the first Par. then the download link
Home built PC/AMD Athlon XP 2800/2 GB RAM/2 40GB HD's/DVD Ram burner /CD-RW burner/Windows XP SP3/ Firefox/Thunderbird/OpenOffice

#15 OFFLINE   zaphirer

    n00b

  • Members
  • PipPipPipPip
  • 1,163 posts
  • Gender:Male

Posted 05 February 2006 - 03:57 PM

NewEgg + LCDs rock. NewEgg is usually the cheapest out there, and my current LCD, a Samsung SyncMaster 930B is simply amazing....
Back to Hardware · Next Unread Topic →


  1. Piriform Community Forums
  2. → Computer Help and Discussion
  3. → Hardware