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By Mark on Wednesday 29 September 2004 at 19:08
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After a couple of years of putting it off, I finally took the plunge and bought an LCD monitor (a 19in Samsung, in case you're interested).
It's pretty amazing how much difference it makes - it's a lot less strenuous on the eyes, and I can fit more on the screen (due to the higher resolution), so I do less fiddling about with palettes in Photoshop.
It also looks incredible when playing Far Cry, which, although I bought the monitor for work purposes, is what I seem to spend most of my time doing so far...
Scary though - the amount of CRT radiation I have absorbed into my face over the past five years must have almost reached Chernobyl-like levels by now.
So, anyway - I sound like a geek.
And I am. So there.
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5 comments:
On Thursday 30 September 2004 at 14:13, andy said:
I want one.
Bastard.
Andy
On Thursday 30 September 2004 at 14:18, Mark Bell said:
Ha. I rule.
On Friday 1 October 2004 at 16:19, Matt said:
Terrible thing, envy. *sticks pins in “Mark” doll* Anyway, what graphics card do you have? Or is that just going to make feel even less happy with my own setup...
On Friday 1 October 2004 at 17:05, Mark Bell said:
It's a pretty budget one actually - a Geforce 4 4800 Ti SE.
I mostly use my PC for design work (the Gamecube is for games
), and that's all 2D, so it doesn't really need a good card.
For some reason Far Cry runs perfectly, even though the graphics are INCREDIBLY detailed; I think they've just got the game engine spot on, cause most other games chug a bit on anything more than the lowest detail.
On Saturday 2 October 2004 at 12:13, Matt said:
Christ. Must be the whole nVidia vs. ATI thing - they are both trying to get all the new games to be made to run best on their cards. I have a Radeon 7500 which is about the same price as that and I can't even run it on lowest spec. After a bit of looking around though, a Radeon 9800 Pro seems to be the way forward for me. As long as you get the right version, they will overclock to 9800 XT speeds, and with some you can even flash the BIOS to make it think it actually is an XT (that costs twice as much as a Pro). Bit skint at the moment, but once I've done a stint as a human guinea pig I might treat myself to one. Of course, I'll also have to get farcry, doom3, killzone (if it ever comes out on PC) and half-life2 (if it ever comes out). And then retire to a darkened room for 3 months until I finish them all.