WOW! What a monitor. Thanks luke for the advice. On games its truly amazing. The radeon 3870x2 works very well with it. It makes my 22 inch look like childs play.
!!! Terrific screen! I've loved mine since the day I bought it. At first I didn't think it would fit on my desk. Terrific screen. http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y251/Luke9583/DSCF1652.jpg http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y251/Luke9583/DSCF1229.jpg
Here is the 22 and the 28 inch. Next time your in a store look at a 22. That is of course the intro to crysis...and the 28 is at a 45 degree angle. If I take my arms and put them together thats how long the screen is. http://i79.photobucket.com/albums/j145/atomstrange/Picture001.jpg
I also overclocked my g6600 to 6700. THe cpu is running right at 50C. Is that okay? I do have a tuniq 120 tower on it.
that's kinda hot, imo, but i think that's within normal ranges, unless that's at idle i'm running a C2Q6600 (G0 Stepping) @ a stable and conservative 3GhZ with a thermalright Ultra120 extreme and my core temps under extreme load are mid-upper 40's [46-47 max when stressed with orthos or other program, about 38-43 when just using the computer normally, and right around 32 at idle]. from what i understand the thermalright u120x is the best air-cooling solution. both my the heatsink and ihs are lapped. that may have some effect as well.
i have 2 22" samsungs at the moment -- if i had the money, i'd definitely move to 2 30" dell or apple...but sadly, i don't can never have enough screen real estate, imo. I started doing multi-monitors a long tiome ago, with 3 CRTs (imagine how much desk space THAT took up) -- then i moved to 2 15" LCDs, then 2 19", and now 2 22". I definitely want more. my current setup is asus maximus formula mobo Q6600 G0 @ 3GHz; thermalright Ultra 120 extreme [both lapped] 2x 150GB 10k RPM WD RaptorX in RAID0 2x WD 1TB for storage 8GB crucial ballistix [4-4-4-12 @ 800] 8800GTS [overclocked], thinking about moving to the Radeon cards since the asus board is an X38 chipset and doesnt support SLI, so i need to go xfire.
What is go? what is lapping? THe single 3870 is only $169 right now at microcenter. With the $30 mirebate. The 3870x2 definitely runs hotter. The visiontek fan blows the exhaust out the back of the computer, the asus version blows it into the case... I use riva tuner to increase the fan speed on the videocard. Its way too slow stock. The only thing the radeon does not do well is antialiasing. I really want to push the 6600 up to 3ghz. The 28 completely destroys the 22 in performance and picture.
If you're going the one card route, I would get the G92 8800 GTS. It's in that price range. It's a far better card.
