Personal computing discussed
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mavrick211 wrote:I just bought a new tv and want to biuld a gaming computer would my tv work as a monitor using HDMI cable
hiro_pro wrote:i have to review a lot of large scanned documents at work. it is typical for me to review a 250 scanned pdf of a legal filing. i got sick of reviewing it on my laptop so i plugged in a 32 LCD TV using a vga cable so i could read two pages at a time. i set the resolution to 1080 on my lenovo t420. i turned off the switchable graphics and just used the ati graphics card. i found the flicker or refresh rate was so bad on the monitor that i got a headache and felt nauseous. i suspect that cheap tv's do not make good monitors.
this will be my next monitor: http://www.microcenter.com/product/384780/EQ276W_27-Inch_IPS_LED_Monitor,_WQHD_2560x1440,_HDMI,_DVI-D,_DisplayPort,_USB