Just about to finish downloading Planetside 2, should be good by all accounts!!!
Oh and best for the year???
BL2 FTW
Just about to finish downloading Planetside 2, should be good by all accounts!!!
Oh and best for the year???
BL2 FTW
Borderlands 2 GOTY for me, only problem is the item drop rates compared to Borderlands 1.
I dont know about that. I'm finding the drop rates to be pretty good.
I miss the proficiency trees the most for each weapon that were in BL1, but without it I've definitely been using a wider variety of weapons which has added something to the game for me so perhaps they were onto something there.
Yeah wouldn't mind trying out Planetside 2 but don't know if its worth dusting off the gaming PC for. Fond memories of PS1 back in its heyday. Running around lone wolf was ok up to a point but eventually you need to become part of a bigger collective to really get going. Our Tribes clan merged with an Aussie clan to ensure 30+ of us on each night. The coolest was once you took an objective, our bangbuses and Troop planes would swoop down from the sky to take us to the next hotspot.
Mad PC gamer here. Spend between 1-4 hours a day (depending on what the day is like) playing World of Tanks. Thoroughly enjoy it. Best bit is have a NZ clan so am playing with people from NZ. Also have our very own Forums set up and do a meet and greet at a random location at least once a year.
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I'd definitely go with a higher res non-3D display, but it's worth noting that you can pick up ludicrously cheap 2560x1440 27" IPS screens on ebay.
Basically they all use the same LG panel, it's also used in the Apple Cinema Display, and almost certainly also that Asus you linked, but made by various small South Korean brands.
The majority are pretty basic - dual-link DVI is the only input, no HDMI, D-Sub or Display Port, and no OSD or scaling, and the only controls are power and brightness, but because they leave all that crap out, they've got significantly lower display lag - there's zero hardware between display input and panel. They do also make a version with additional inputs if you really want them though.
The most popular one is the Yamasaki Catleap Q270, but there are a number of brands making them. Personally I went with a Crossover branded one that was marginally more expensive, but has a metal rather than plastic casing, and is height adjustable and rotatable.
It wound up costing me around $500 landed, but some of that was because the seller ignored my instruction to mark the purchase price down a bit, so I got stung for GST.
Obviously they're not for everyone, but if you want a damn good monitor for half what it's worth, I couldn't be happier with mine.
Hmmm, kind of tempting, this sort of thing you mean? I do like the idea of a no frills display, but also don't want to get a substandard panel when an extra 500 bucks isn't really that much for better picture definition and longevity. When you say the same panel, you mean its manufactured in the same factory, or that it is a design copy?
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The panels just one part of a screen, it's the part upfront you see with the pretty little colours. The rest of the screen (the part that does all the work) is hidden in-behind the panel & it's the part that tells the panel what to do & how to do it.
Theres only a handful of panel manufactures out there, Biggest being LG/Philips, Samsung/Sony (tho Sony sold off it's shares to Samsung) so most TV/monitors will be running 1 of these 2 panels.
The difference between screens is all in the processors, black magic & gimmicky shit between signal & panel.
So the panels are the same with the same capabilities etc, but the way they perform/end result may vary. It's all down to the magic thingymagigs behind the panel doing all the work
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Interesting, I would have thought there would be panel copiers out there, guess the process is a bit too high tech for them to pull off.
And yes I do know the difference between a panel and a screen, one I use at the moment didn't come with the bits all connected so I had to plug in the CCFL inverters and the EN and power signals etc. DVI doesn't require processing (like asus splendid, which was kind of neat but I prefer to change those settings on the programs, not the screen) before display so the no frills one sound like it might be worth a hoon.
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Yup, exactly, I got this one, which is identical aside from the stand, which is height-adjustable and allows the screen to rotate 90 degrees.
I mean the exact same panel, as Scuba_Steve wrote, there are comparatively few panel manufacturers out there, so if you look at a 27" IPS monitor, chances are it's going to be running the same LG panel as the rest.
Basically the panels are graded when they come out of the factory, and Apple only take the A+ ones - ones with zero bright or dead pixels, and these cheap South Korean monitors are made with A- panels, so they frequently (though not always) have dead or bright pixels, but they've got a policy where more than 1 faulty pixel in the central area, or more than 5 in the outer areas is considered defective, so the number of faulty pixels will be minimal.
My one has two dead pixels, but they're not remotely noticeable - I know exactly where they are, but I still have trouble finding them even when I'm actually looking for them.
There's a huge amount of information on them out there on the net, they initially achieved popularity because the first generation of the Yamasaki Catleap ones could actually be overclocked to run at 120hz, and 120hz monitors are obscenely expensive, so when you could pick them up for sub-$400 USD for a while, you were picking up a monitor for closer to a fifth than a half the price of the nearest competitors.
They since started using a different, cheaper PCB in them that doesn't allow running them at 120hz anymore, but since they're still half the price of the 27" IPS displays from any of the major manufacturers, so they're still pretty popular.
And yeah, as you said, any signal processing between the input and the panel adds input lag and can be done better by your video card, so as long as you only ever want to hook up a desktop machine with dual-link DVI output, the lack of signal processing and extra inputs is actually a benefit.
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