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| Thread ID: 40612 | 2003-12-12 18:24:00 | Graphics card or monitor ? | JJJJJ (528) | Press F1 |
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| 199846 | 2003-12-12 18:24:00 | Firstly let me say that I am half blind. I recently bought a Proview 19 inch monitor. I have an Nvidia 100/200 64 mb graphics card.With latest drivers. I bought the monitor , which I have running at 1024 x 768, to make viewing easier. I realise it is only a cheap monitor but I was interested in size at the time. If I improve my graphics card will that make any great improvement to picture quality. If so what card should I get? Or is the solution to buy a better quality monitor? Which one. Remember clear sharp text is what I am looking for. I don't play games. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 199847 | 2003-12-12 18:41:00 | Monitor . Graphics card won't change anything . If you wanted sharper, better quality put your resolution to 1280x1024 . It MAY look small but you WILL get used to it . My 19" is going on 1600x1200 when it arrives . So if you arn't going to play games, don't bother getting a new graphics card . Unless it is monochrome or 16bit, or has only a refresh rate of 50hertz, than you won't see a difference . And a 64mb graphics card is already very good, especially just for 2D graphics . Monitor is fine, I've heard good things about Proview, however cheap it is . So put up the resolution, make sure you are on 32bit colour and maybe even try to up the refresh rate . |
Mark Veldhuizen (2570) | ||
| 199848 | 2003-12-12 18:55:00 | I am running 85 hz refresh rate. I have tried A higher resolution but print was a bit on small size. But you have made up my mind on graphic card. What I would like is blacker print. It looks grey to me. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 199849 | 2003-12-12 19:12:00 | Adjust the contrast on the monitor ;) | Mark Veldhuizen (2570) | ||
| 199850 | 2003-12-12 19:24:00 | Sorry to disagree Mark, but the Proview is very much a budget monitor, and the tubes they use may possibly be ones that dont meet the quality standards of more expensive monitors. They are very variable, white purity is usually quite poor on them, focus varies in different parts of the screen and convergence is not good. You get what you pay for. What is needed is a quality monitor with a finer dot pitch than the Proview. Neither is setting a very high resolution going to improve things with a cheap monitor, focus will suffer. With your eye problem you would be better off Jack with a moderate resolution, and set large fonts, and if there is a colour user setting option in the onscreen display, use that to adjust for best appearance for your eyes. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 199851 | 2003-12-12 19:33:00 | Try 800 x 600 - 16bit hi Colour - Large fonts. Works OK for my far than perfect eyes. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 199852 | 2003-12-12 21:57:00 | the flatscreen proview monitors have a dot pitch of 25mm,Giving a very sharp very detailed picture.Wow,and even focus over the entire screen.... And they are no more budget then 80 percent of the monitors out there,Infact most people are probally using .27mm dot pitch fish bowls.... as to jack,theres a number of settings within windows that alter the way fonts are displayed maybe a bit of tweaking will sharpen em up to where your happy with them. |
metla (154) | ||
| 199853 | 2003-12-12 22:15:00 | Get a larger monitor, I use a 21" Diamond View myself, if your eyesight is really bad use the 800x 600 settings and use The Opera browser it has a zoom in function that is useful for reading small text when browsing sites just use the + or - key easy and quick too . http://www.opera.com/ |
kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 199854 | 2003-12-12 22:17:00 | theres also a wizard program that speaks the words highlighted on the screen cant remember what it was called though ?? | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 199855 | 2003-12-12 22:21:00 | Depending on which windows, there is a Accessibility option for changing the contrast. Something a rather like that | MrBeef (342) | ||
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