That's not it at all. It's not the resolution, it's the response time. If you want "lower" resolutions (i.e. 1280x1024) you can run them on the Dell monitors because they can do 1:1 without scaling.
I just returned my 2005FPW because the ghosting was too bad. You can't play multiplayer...
It definitely does smear/ghost. But it's better than my 2005FPW...barely... Now the question is if I want widescreen more or just barely better response.
Well I get mine on Friday so I'll report in the questions and give my impressions (hopefully good ones!). The only part I'm nervous about is getting obvious and annoying dead or stuck pixels with their 8+ dead pixel return policy.
This may be a bit out of your range, but after getting the Dell 2005FPW and being unhappy with the smearing/ghosting, I just ordered one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16824116277
According to Tom's Hardware, this is a true 8-bit panel that has SUB-15ms...
The only game I'm really playing right now...Battlefield Vietnam. There are some scaling issues that are limited by the game (widescreen support in BF2, woot), but aside from that there is also some smearing.
I just got mine, no dead pixels, no stuck pixels, no backlighting problems.
But whoever says this monitor doesn't have smearing (aka "ghosting") in games has either been hitting the crack pipe a bit too much or is coming from a high latency LCD.
There is DEFINITELY smearing. No question...
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