Anyone have a 28"-30" Monitor?

Jeffro64 · #1 04-14-2009

I'm thinking of getting a bigger monitor and was wondering if any of you guys have a 28" or 30"? If so how is it on gaming and movies as far as picture quality and are you glad you went that big?

DrNip · #2 04-14-2009

I have the HANNspree HF289H 28" and am lovin it. It is great for gaming and everything else. I use to have a 22" but gave it to my mom. Every time I go to her house the 22 incher looks so small now to me.

Mine looks alot like this Hanns-G except mine is the HANNSpree version Best Buy carried. This one is also $300 cheaper than what mine was. It is 1080 as well.

Jeffro64 · #3 04-14-2009

Looks like a nice one, I see it has an HDMI to DVI cable for hookup.... does that handle sound and video if you have the cable to go from the MB to the GPU?

Kal-EL · #4 04-14-2009

I run an apple cinema 30" and a Samsung 24". They are both really great monitors. Once you go 2560 x 1600, your done, you'll never wanna go back.

The 24" @ 1900x1200 is nice too.

Jeffro64 · #5 04-14-2009

Yeah I like the Apple but it's way pricey... I didn't want to spend that much on a monitor. The Gateway XHD3000 30-inch is like half the price now and I've seen them both on display and the Gateway seemed to have as good of picture, but I didn't get to see game play or DVD playback on either. I'm still not sure I really want a 30" though... They are HUGE!

Kal-EL · #6 04-14-2009

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Originally Posted by Jeffro64

Yeah I like the Apple but it's way pricey... I didn't want to spend that much on a monitor. The Gateway XHD3000 30-inch is like half the price now and I've seen them both on display and the Gateway seemed to have as good of picture, but I didn't get to see game play or DVD playback on either. I'm still not sure I really want a 30" though... They are HUGE!

Don't go with the apple, its overpriced. I picked mine up a couple years ago now. There are many 30 inchers out there for cheaper and better quality video. Just gotta shop around.

Jeffro64 · #7 04-14-2009

Check out all the bells and whistles on the Gateway...

http://www.jr.com/gateway/pe/GTW_XHD...ductTabDetails

hellcamino · #8 04-14-2009

I use a 26" LG with 1920x1200 res and it's great but I am planning on getting another 30 or larger once they start rolling out with RGB LED lighting. My laptop has the RGB LED backlighting and it's better looking than my s-ips NEC monitor.

I used to use my Sharp Aquos 1080p for pc gaming using a dvi-hdmi cable. but the damn thing was too tall for my current setup and bothered my neck, the LG I use now can lower the screen almost to the level of it's base.

DrNip · #9 04-15-2009

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Originally Posted by Jeffro64

Check out all the bells and whistles on the Gateway...

http://www.jr.com/gateway/pe/GTW_XHD...ductTabDetails

That's all fine and dandy but look at the resolution on it. Will look great but will suffer fps when gaming if you game. Mines only 1920x1200.

hellcamino · #10 04-15-2009

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Originally Posted by Jeffro64

Check out all the bells and whistles on the Gateway...

http://www.jr.com/gateway/pe/GTW_XHD...ductTabDetails

That one looks to be not too bad for the $$$ but I would want to see it in person before buying and be sure you have enough balls in your gfx cards to be able to run it for games. I would say a pair of 4870X2's and a quad core at 4ghz or higher would handle that nicely.