Up to scratch?
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I would say it was. Suppose it also depends on how much you are spending, what you are displaying e.g. DVDs, Gaming etc..
Samsung do a 19" with 4ms for about £250.
Samsung do a 19" with 4ms for about £250.
Doc Lenny said:
This is part of a package via work so I have the choice of this monitor only. Use would mainly be MS-office based stuff but the PC will have software for video editing also. I might also look at getting a TV reception card but would 12ms be OK for that?
Choice of CPU for the PC is between a P4 650 HT 3.4MHz, 2MB cache, 800MHz and an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ dual core processor. I had a quick look on the internet and it looks as though the AMD has the upper hand. Any thoughts?
Get the best spec you can if you are not paying, although you might have to work harder to justify the investment -
Both would suit your requirements, I would go for the AMD also - may cope with future technologies better.
12ms would OK for watching TV also.
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Doc Lenny said:
Get the best spec you can if you are not paying, although you might have to work harder to justify the investment -
Both would suit your requirements, I would go for the AMD also - may cope with future technologies better.
12ms would OK for watching TV also.
DL, thanks very much for the help.
dg123 said:
First thing that springs to my mind: will the AMD version be supplied with a 64-bit variant of Windows?
Second thought: I have read reviews that posted the 64-bit Athlons as being significantly slower than 32-bit Athlons when running 32-bit software. So, even in Windows XP-64, you might find that your 32-bit video editing software doesn't run particularly quickly.
My final thoughts: The Pentium 4 HT is generally held to be significantly faster than anything in the AMD family when performing video-editing and playback tasks. But I use an Athlon XP-2200 and I find Adobe Premiere runs just fine on it. If you are doing video editing for a living and speed is of the essence, the P4 is choice. However, for future-proofing and sheer bragging stakes, my choice would be for the 64-bit architecture.
Get the Athlon, and make sure they are supplying Windows XP 64-bit edition.
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dg123 said:
The response times quoted are usually based on the time taken for a pixel to change from one colour to it's opposite (eg, black to white etc), which is the easiest state change for it to make. In reality, pixels rarely perform this transition and it actually takes longer for them to respond than the quoted times.
It appears that some manufacturers quote black to white, some quote grey-grey.
My monitor (Dell 2001FPW) has the exact same panel as the Apple 20" cinema display. Yet one is quote with a 12ms response time, the other 16ms (which way round escapes me!). Presumably this is down to a black/white grey/grey inconsistency.
My monitor (Dell 2001FPW) has the exact same panel as the Apple 20" cinema display. Yet one is quote with a 12ms response time, the other 16ms (which way round escapes me!). Presumably this is down to a black/white grey/grey inconsistency.
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