Dell 30"

[Embattle]

I've little doubt a number of you will be drooling over this one, although it isn't available here yet.

 

[Draylor]

Heh

Same as the Apple 30" thats been around for ages then?

 

[Embattle]

Same in stated size, and that is about it

 

[Draylor]

Same chance of me buying one

Specs looked similar at first glance, price looks roughly similar - whats the difference then?

 

[Yaka]

diff screen panel, have only a hdcp DVi port and you need a dual link gfx card ati 1800 nvidia 7800 cards have this feature. i called a couple of weeks back about this and was told price will be somwhere between £1400-£2000 but no availability date.

been thinking of getting one but i'll need a new pc as well:/

also the widscreen 2405fpw and 2005fpw are getting replaced soonish with better panels and hdcp no solid date for those tho

 

[Ch3tan]

Hmm, nice.... I'll be upgrading my 2405fpw if they release a version that supports hdcp.

 

[Ch3tan]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8750150643&ssPageName=ADME:B:FSEL:UK:1

 

[Draylor]

£1471 (incl VAT) direct from Dell.

Im sure it'll look lovely but Id rather not see one for a few years until the price drops a long way

 

[Ch3tan]

See the power of bulk buying? That guy gets them direct from Dell, and can afford to sell them at £1299 inc VAT.

 

[Draylor]

Yeah, Id be impressed if I hadnt managed to find another UK source for them cheaper than that in approx 5 seconds.

Only £12 cheaper, which on £1299 is utterly irrelevant, but still

 

[Yaka]

i know that guy, he sells nowt but dell kit as agent or some thing
im gonna get one, but first need sell of a load of my current kit. get a SLI shuttle. btw the current 30" screens use an LG panel and ones made late feb early march are meant to use the much better samsung panel;

 

[Moo]

someone mighta mentioned

but the dell 20, 24 and 30 inch widescreen tft's use exactly the same tft panels as the apple versions, (samsung) - except aparently some of the dell 30 inchers now use LG panels.

 

[Yaka]

yes but apple and dell ones use diff type of panels.

 

[Ch3tan]

I wouldnt bother with the 30" Dell Yaka, been looking at the specs. No component connection and as far as I can tell no HDCP over the DVI.

 

[TdC]

Ch3tan, how's your 24" for gaming? You may have said, but refresh my memory please in particular, do you ever notice any ghosting or suchlike? I'd certainly feel like an upgrade since I learned that I can run BF2 at unsupported rezzes

 

[Embattle]

muh, I'm not too worried. the times where I'd actually pay that kind of dosh are past.

Monitors are excluded from this statement then TdC

 

[TdC]

heheh pedant the thing is, I've recently got this nice 19" iiyama tft, and it *is* nice indeed. so much so that I've recommended it to others, which is high praise indeed. but I've also got this sli rig that everyone's mouthing off at me about, and the 1920 x 1200 of the 24" dell screen seems a nice rez to try out.

my only niggle being that Dell wants to sell me a new 24" 2405 for 1200 odd euros, whereas my lovely iiyama 19" was 400 at new. I'm not believing that I'm getting 3x the monitor, so a second hand one seems more in order.

 

[Embattle]

I currently use an iiyama ProLite E481S and while the Dell is indeed nice I've turned into a penny pincher which means I won't spend out for it....now if someone wants to give me one then no problem

 

[TdC]

hehe indeed if someone *gave* me a 30" dell monitor I'd accept reluctantly ofc, but accept I would

 

[Clown]

I said it somewhere else, but getting such a large screen for gaming will be expensive. It's just so hard to keep buying the best hardware to play the latest games at a decent framerate at fullscreen.

 

[Yaka]

Ch3tan, how's your 24" for gaming? You may have said, but refresh my memory please in particular, do you ever notice any ghosting or suchlike? I'd certainly feel like an upgrade since I learned that I can run BF2 at unsupported rezzes

the 2405 is fine for gaming and has little ghosting. dell are supposed to release and upgraded ver with hdcp over dvi or with seprate hdmi conn. but the screen its self is great so good that playing fight night round 3 demo is a thing beuty
for example

shot taken via my sony p150 cam loks much better in rl

tbh im gonna keep my 2405 for x360 and 2nd pc and am thinking of getting the 30" for pc use and pr0n!

 

[Ch3tan]

It's amazing for gaming tdc, and it does support lower resolutions if your graphics card poops out for gaming, without looking like "oh fuck, non native resolutions look teh shit!". But I would hold on for the version with hdcp. Buy from the guy I linked the 30" ebay link. He sells them new, and cheaper than dell, and with full euro warrenty.

 

[Danya]

How can people use a 30" display for PC use? It's just too damn big - you can;t see enough of the screen unless you sit miles away from it. ;<

 

[cHodAX]

Aria now selling for £1056 inc VAT, thats £347.80 off RRP It is a special price but you can expect the offer to be on and off for at least a month, Aria are always doing this with Dell screens.

http://www.aria.co.uk/productinfocomm.asp?ID=20705&SpecialStatus=1