Just setup my Dell 3007WFP - Initial Impression

**rhettro** · 01-10-2006, 11:03 AM

Very nice. What are the response rates like? I starting to think my next LCD monitor will be a wide screen model. WS is the future after all.

**Johnmcl7** · 01-10-2006, 11:33 AM

Around 11ms apparently:

John

**Colossus** · 01-10-2006, 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by Johnmcl7

Around 11ms apparently:

John

But they rated the 30" LCD different from all the other LCD panels they sell

The 30" is 11ms (around) from grey to grey.. While the others are black to black.

**Candyman** · 01-10-2006, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by The_Great_YODA

any dead pixels or sub pixels?

Heh...with the res of that monitor, you'd probably have a hard time finding them (assuming they are even there).

**rabidmoose171** · 01-10-2006, 02:10 PM

My god, that thing is insane!

Hopfully i can find a 2405(or whatever they are called, ive forgotten in this excitment) for cheaper now.

**James** · 01-10-2006, 02:19 PM

You should be able to. Dell usually offers good deals on their "old" monitors. Heck, it would be easy to pick up a fairly cheap 2005 nowadays, but after seeing that, who would want to?

Very nice monitor. Congrats on your purchase.

**freedon** · 01-10-2006, 03:33 PM

CaliOCManiac, care to post a picture with your head beside the monitor (or brother's, sister's, etc).

**Soul Assassin** · 01-10-2006, 03:38 PM

Amazing.

**Un4given** · 01-10-2006, 04:01 PM

The downside I see is that you would require an SLI/CrossFire solution just to drive the native resolution, and not just in games, but 2D mode as well.

Edit: Nevermind, you just a graphics card fully supporting dual link DVI capabilities.

**kpxgq** · 01-10-2006, 04:16 PM

how much wattage does this bad boy suck up?

**CaliOCManiac** · 01-10-2006, 04:53 PM

The price of the monitor was $2447.00 with all applicable taxes/next day air shipping (Which was only $65.. and if you are gonna spend ~$2400 why not?).

Monitor came boxed extremely well, and all manuals/utilities claim 11ms grey to grey response time.

Monitor connects via a single DVI connector with a USB connector that NEEDS to be plugged in for the Dell utility and monitor drivers to install properly. You do need a dual DVI card to run it, but you don't need SLI. AND I have been testing some games running off 1 card (turning SLI off on the machine) and they will play in the native high res... you can actually play COD2 with decent options and still get 30fps at max rez with 1 256GTX. I would imagine that 1 512 would be able to play it admirably and get 40+ fps.

I have yet to encounter ANY ghosting or anything resembling it, leading me to believe that the response time is correct.

No dead pixels out of the box. And I checked it HARD!!!

Today I changed my font size in XP to 'large' from normal to see if I liked it better. It IS easier to read, but normal wasn't hard to read, so your mileage may vary.

The left side (when you are facing it) of the monitor contains a multicard reader, that can read just about anything (except XD cards, as I found out while trying to upload those pics!!!! Damn you Dell!), so that's nice. The back panel contains some USB hookups that I am currently running my mouse and keyboard from, which is also nice.

So far, after a full day of hard use - I have found no flaws with this lcd at all. It is living up to all the expectations I had for it.

**ImaNihilist** · 01-10-2006, 05:27 PM

Supposedly, from the amateur reviews I've read the RT is closer to 22ms and the contrast ratio closer to 450:1. Better than the Apple display of course, which is more like 28ms and 400:1.

It's pretty normal though for companies to grossly overstate the specs. When they say things like that all it really means is that at a SINGLE point on the screen with a SINGLE color those are the "lowest" number attainable. They are BY NOT MEANS an average. The only company I know of that doesn't overstate like that is ViewSonic...and maybe Samsung to some extent.

**bldegle2** · 01-10-2006, 05:29 PM

looks good, i just got the 2405 several months back, i just can't find the $$$ for this one, ...................

YET

**OpStar** · 01-10-2006, 05:34 PM

1 - Thanks for the pics, it looks amazing.

2 - I hate you. Now my 2405s seem small and I don't really want/need to spend 2500 on a new monitor, but so much peer pressure, I can't handle it!

**CaliOCManiac** · 01-10-2006, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by ImaNihilist

Supposedly, from the amateur reviews I've read the RT is closer to 22ms and the contrast ratio closer to 450:1. Better than the Apple display of course, which is more like 28ms and 400:1.

It's pretty normal though for companies to grossly overstate the specs. When they say things like that all it really means is that at a SINGLE point on the screen with a SINGLE color those are the "lowest" number attainable. They are BY NOT MEANS an average. The only company I know of that doesn't overstate like that is ViewSonic...and maybe Samsung to some extent.

I can't say much on true rt, except that I have not encountered any ghosting of any sort YET. The only tests that it has been put through are:

COD2 (at varying resolution and FPS), X3: Reunion (runs like a champ at 2560x1600), and 3DMark05.

No ghosting anywhere on any of those, at any resolution.

Which I think is the main test of RT. IMHO, the RT is one of those things that "If you never notice it, it's good enough".

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