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| 60712 | 2002-07-11 10:29:00 | Thanks again for those links JM, much appreciated. :x > So naturally I sit in front of a monitor and read stuff on the internet. Yeah, well so do I but I obviously don't have the knack of ferreting out the useful stuff like you do. > Plus I've always been one of those people that "is a hive of useless information" as some people would put it. That makes two of us. It's quite nice having an outlet for it here sometimes, isn't it? > PS. did anyone see my quote about radiation addiction in the July PCW. > *Susan runs off to find this stuff in the magazine...* No, I didn't see your quote about radiation addiction in the July PCW. And I'm not going to run off to find this stuff in the magazine until you can tell me exactly what page and what paragraph to look at. I'm not good at ferreting out the right information, remember? ;-) |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 60713 | 2002-07-11 10:35:00 | > Susan, JM has a thing called "intelligence" > I think I used to have a bit once, but I lost it. Its an advantage of youth....have you managed to retain yours still?? I think I have godfather, though it might be starting to slip. It's not often my kidlets manage to outsmart me, but the fact that they sometimes can must mean I'm losing my grip. It's rare, but it happens. :-( > Remember "one day we will all grow up to be as ignorant as our parents" Geez, I hope not!! :D |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 60714 | 2002-07-11 11:40:00 | > No, I didn't see your quote about radiation addiction > in the July PCW. And I'm not going to run off to find > this stuff in the magazine until you can tell me > exactly what page and what paragraph to look at. I'm > not good at ferreting out the right information, > remember? ;-) I can't be bothered going up stairs and leaving my monitor alone at the moment. So I'll give you a clue. It has room for 12cm (of plastic) for each month of the year. Is also made of neoprene ;) |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 60715 | 2002-07-16 08:42:00 | If your going to be spending alot of time in frount of the System you may also want to consider getting some components which would make the system easier and more enjoy able to use for long periods of time. Such a High quality moniter say 17 or 19 inch with a HIGH Refresh rate 100Hz + which would make it easier to view for a long amount of time. Also a decent Sound card (Creative live! or Audigy) and speakers (THX rated or something) with a DVD drive and your'd have your self a Multimedia Hub that would be very enjoyable to use. If you just want speed your'd probably be best looking at upgrading to an Athlon XP 2200+ with a Kt333 or Nforce chipset with 512-768MB DDR333 memory. Also if you like graphics editing Gaming or movie watching (DVD) your'd probably want to up grade your graphics card as well a Geforce3 Ti200, Geforce4 4200 or a Radeon 8500 would improve that area of computing. For faster internet you might want to get Jetstart or JetStream. Also if you can always add a TV card so you could watch and record TV on the BEAST. Of course increasing harddrive space is also worth while often. |
Falcdragon (919) | ||
| 60716 | 2002-07-16 09:08:00 | > Such a High quality moniter say 17 or 19 inch with a > HIGH Refresh rate 100Hz + which would make it easier > to view for a long amount of time . If you know, can you advise which monitors offer this feature? Also, what would be a good DPI to look for? The smaller the better, isn't it? |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 60717 | 2002-07-16 10:19:00 | smaller dpi is better (dots per inch) as it is higher resolution. Needs to be a good quality monitor though as its not a lot of good having the dots fine and the bandwidth limited so it cannot make use of them. Make sure you go somewhere (Harvey Norman in Moorhouse?) where you can compare side by side, or you don't know what is really best. Trouble is for a large monitor, you need to build onto the house to accommodate it, and the desk will collapse under it. Mind you, comparing side by side is a danger too...thats how I ended up with LCD, compared to a good LCD everything else was second rate. LCD dpi is not as good as hi quality CRT but as each pixel (dot) is separately controlled, 1 pixed is 1 pixel (it can still be several on a CRT if the beam cannot start and stop quickly enough) the result is superior. Zero flicker so refresh rate is academic. Watch the cheap ones though... |
godfather (25) | ||
| 60718 | 2002-07-16 10:51:00 | If i remember right smaller DPI is not the answer . DPI (dot per inch) the more DPI the more dots the better the picture . "dot pitch" is the other mesure and this is the distance between dots . less space between dot means more dots and better picture . so . . . . . . you want largre DPI or small "dot pitch" because it's two ways of mesuring the picture quality . most printers are in DPI and most monitors are in dot pitch . just remember that there is a diffrence beween them . |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 60719 | 2002-07-16 11:49:00 | Have a look at this (www.radiativenz.com) written by KingJackal. It's a good guide on monitors. I recommend my AOC 7Klr 17" Flatscreen, 1024*768@85Hz, max 1600*1200@75Hz (can do more with different drivers) |
-=JM=- (16) | ||
| 60720 | 2002-07-16 11:50:00 | robsonde: Yes, that was what I was thinking of . I saw the measurement the other day, one monitor had a bigger number than the other (wasn't refresh rate) and I was trying to remember if it should be bigger or smaller for the better quality . I think the higher the number for refresh and the lower the number for dot pitch is the way to go, isn't it? godfather: I've been looking around quite a bit lately and there are bugger all shops with more than a couple of good monitors to compare with each other . Apart from the ones that come with the HP or Compaq systems, that is . Don't want one of those . I want to see a flat screen monitor to see what the difference is but Harvey Norman didn't have anything last week . Well, nothing that was actually labelled properly and I wasn't going to ask the assistants . Big Byte is useless - all they've got now is HP systems (or is it Compaq - same thing anyway) . I'd love a 19" but I don't think that's within my budget, nor will the desk handle it, so a good 17" is on the cards . Love to have TFT but that's out . Eenie meenie mynie mo . . . . . |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 60721 | 2002-07-16 11:56:00 | Thanks for the link JM, good article. How many dots has your monitor got? :D |
Susan B (19) | ||
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