I've been tempted by a Dell 2405FPW lately, but have been seeing some contradictory reviews regarding its suitability for action games.
Here is part of a website review.
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I'm confused because I've been seeing people on the net purchase these models for Xbox/PS2 and in particular Xbox 360 and PS3 use.
Any advice?
Here is part of a website review.
Dell 2405FPW
Games
It is time for the Samsung engineers to wake up. Or is it the Korean marketing department? This 16 ms monitor, 8 ms according to Samsung, and the 16 ms PVA Dell 1704V doesn?t provide better results than the 25 ms tested here during the last few years.
Of course, playing World of Warcraft with this monitor is extraordinary. If you have a very good graphic card, playing in 1920 x 1200 is a real pleasure. It is hard to come back to smaller monitors. But for Unreal or other FPS it is another story. If the character is static, we can only admire the contrast, color quality, precision of the shapes (at least with the standard resolution). If you move your mouse, it ruins everything. There is an afterglow and this is quite unbearable for really fast game fans.
You will, however, get used to this afterglow in time. It is disturbing but it all depends on the level of quality you require. In this respect, our requirements are probably too high and surely above average. Especially when a manufacturer announces an 8 ms response time that is supposedly perfect for all games. But we regularly receive readers? comment saying that they aren?t disturbed by this effect, which seems horrible to us, and that they don?t even see what we are talking about. Anyway, now you know what we think of this monitor as regards fast games.
Game rating: 3/5
Games
It is time for the Samsung engineers to wake up. Or is it the Korean marketing department? This 16 ms monitor, 8 ms according to Samsung, and the 16 ms PVA Dell 1704V doesn?t provide better results than the 25 ms tested here during the last few years.
Of course, playing World of Warcraft with this monitor is extraordinary. If you have a very good graphic card, playing in 1920 x 1200 is a real pleasure. It is hard to come back to smaller monitors. But for Unreal or other FPS it is another story. If the character is static, we can only admire the contrast, color quality, precision of the shapes (at least with the standard resolution). If you move your mouse, it ruins everything. There is an afterglow and this is quite unbearable for really fast game fans.
You will, however, get used to this afterglow in time. It is disturbing but it all depends on the level of quality you require. In this respect, our requirements are probably too high and surely above average. Especially when a manufacturer announces an 8 ms response time that is supposedly perfect for all games. But we regularly receive readers? comment saying that they aren?t disturbed by this effect, which seems horrible to us, and that they don?t even see what we are talking about. Anyway, now you know what we think of this monitor as regards fast games.
Game rating: 3/5
I'm confused because I've been seeing people on the net purchase these models for Xbox/PS2 and in particular Xbox 360 and PS3 use.
Any advice?