Question for the group about Radeon 9100 and monitor

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I recently got a Lcd monitor and have it hooked up to my old 9100 card.

On my old CRT monitor i could look at a picture and see the hairs on a
gnat's ass ,, but with this monitor it seems a little grainy and the
pictures that i want to zoom in on get all grainy or fuzzy.

I've been going over a bunch of pictures from my high school reunion and
tryng to identify people in the pictures and the backgrounds ,,before i was
able to zoom in on thier nametags and identify them ,, i was looking
forward to doing that with more clarity with the new monitor but it's not
clear at all ,,,if anything it's worse.

Any suggestions???? Would an up to date card with more ram help?? I don't
play games with this machine it's mainly for the pictures , email , web ,
downloading , and watching movies.
 
Welcome to the world LCD monitors. That is the exact reason why I have not
bought a LCD. I still like my CRT it has a picture better.
If the video card gave you a good picture on a CRT I would doubt changing
the card would help. I have seen large picture quality differences with the
LCD's. I think you get what you pay for. The higher priced LCD have a better
picture. I think I will stay with my 19 inch CRT for as long as I can. I can
still see the hair on the gnat's ass on my screen.

Homer
 
Welcome to the world LCD monitors. That is the exact reason why I have
not bought a LCD. I still like my CRT it has a picture better.
If the video card gave you a good picture on a CRT I would doubt
changing the card would help. I have seen large picture quality
differences with the LCD's. I think you get what you pay for. The
higher priced LCD have a better picture. I think I will stay with my
19 inch CRT for as long as I can. I can still see the hair on the
gnat's ass on my screen.
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Man that sucks ,,,the pic's look good until you go to zoom in on them
,,,i thought that it wouldn't make a difference ,, it's got a sharper
image as long as you don't want to get in tight to the pic.
 
LouisG said:
I recently got a Lcd monitor and have it hooked up to my old 9100 card.

On my old CRT monitor i could look at a picture and see the hairs on a
gnat's ass ,, but with this monitor it seems a little grainy and the
pictures that i want to zoom in on get all grainy or fuzzy.

I've been going over a bunch of pictures from my high school reunion and
tryng to identify people in the pictures and the backgrounds ,,before i
was
able to zoom in on thier nametags and identify them ,, i was looking
forward to doing that with more clarity with the new monitor but it's not
clear at all ,,,if anything it's worse.

Any suggestions????
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Make sure your new LCD is operating at the recommended resolution and
refresh rate. This makes a huge difference in visual quality. The 9100 is
perfectly capable of quality output, even though it likely lacks a DVI
output connector.
 
Find your LCD's "Native" resolution. Try running it at that setting, then
compare.

Some LCS's look like hell, on some resulotions, due to dithering.
 
Find your LCD's "Native" resolution. Try running it at that setting,
then compare.

Some LCS's look like hell, on some resulotions, due to dithering.
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Thanks to all for the recommendations ,, i'll give that a shot and see
what happens ,, by the "native" resolution ,, do you mean factory
settings? How do i go about finding out the "native" resolution??
 
Some LCS's look like hell, on some resulotions, due to dithering.
Thanks to all for the recommendations ,, i'll give that a shot and see
what happens ,, by the "native" resolution ,, do you mean factory
settings? How do i go about finding out the "native" resolution??
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What brand and model is it?
 
thanks i tried it and it still seems a little washed out and fuzzy when
zooming in even just a little ,, the flesh tones of the peoples faces seem
blotchy ,,like your skin when you've been out in the cold for a long time.

And trying to read text from within the pictures ,, i used to be able to
zoom in and read most of it ,,now the even the ones that i know from
zooming in closer ,, are blurry.
 
LouisG said:
thanks i tried it and it still seems a little washed out and fuzzy when
zooming in even just a little ,, the flesh tones of the peoples faces
seem
blotchy ,,like your skin when you've been out in the cold for a long time.

And trying to read text from within the pictures ,, i used to be able to
zoom in and read most of it ,,now the even the ones that i know from
zooming in closer ,, are blurry.
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I think your monitor is miscalibrated. It should have excellent clarity,
brilliance and saturation if running at native resolution. You can try
1280x1024 70Hz as well. Personally, I bought a new 19" LG Flatron F900B
that a store had sitting around for 14months. It's now discontinued. High
end CRT's are few and far between these days.
 
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